-----Original Message----- From: Annamalai Gurusami "V. Sasi Kumar" vsasi@vsnl.com writes:
branches of science and technology. I found that they ask for manuscript in MS Word format. No other format is acceptable to them, including
Likewise, I always find that employment agencies (or job consultants, if you prefer that), often ask CV (or resume) in MS Word format. I send them a note stating that I don't have MS Word software, but that I am sending in RTF format, which can be viewed in MS Word. To my surprise, most of them reject such resumes.
Thats a sad reality. I don't know why such a restriction is being imposed. I cannot seem to figure it out.
Standardisation which M$ has driven by marketing and a good product( Kindly dont whin, I am using a outlook here). The next good quality product which can out-perform the existing one will become a next standard.
So, if any of us want, then need to involve in OO or other Office Suite and make it Highly helpful to common masses. Quality of the product should market itself.( for eg. google,Linux kernel in enterprise etc.)
BTW for CV's better use ASCII format.
From: Senthil_OR@Dell.com Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 07:51:24 -0600
Standardisation which M$ has driven by marketing and a good product(
When I have a M$Word 97 document., and I edit it on M$OfficeXP ( just changing italics to bold ) and open the same document in M$Word97, it said that it cannot read the file.. and asks me to update. <This is a problem I faced when I had to prepare a paper during my Under Graduate>. I dont call this standardisation. I call it bullying.
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On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 19:21, Senthil_OR@Dell.com wrote:
Standardisation which M$ has driven by marketing and a good product( Kindly dont whin, I am using a outlook here). The next good quality product which can out-perform the existing one will become a next standard.
I agree with the marketing part that MS has done. But the quality is very doubtful. The product it displaced, namely WordPerfect, which had become very popular the world over, was certainly a much better word processor than MS Word. Even today, I think, MS Word cannot give the kind of features and stability that WP used to give five or ten years back.
So, if any of us want, then need to involve in OO or other Office Suite and make it Highly helpful to common masses.
OO already has many features that MS Word does not. For instance, the auto word completion feature is very helpful to many ordinary people who cannot type fast.
Regards
Senthil_OR@Dell.com writes:
Standardisation which M$ has driven by marketing and a good product( Kindly dont whin, I am using a outlook here). The next good quality product which can out-perform the existing one will become a next standard.
I used LaTeX to prepare my resume and generate as many different formats as possible. And I am sure LaTeX is a better product than MS Word as far as the resulting document is concerned.
Rgds, anna
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