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Are .doc files used for electronic delivery?
On Oct 15, 12:02*pm, Tom Adams wrote:
On Oct 15, 11:46*am, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote: Perhaps it's more that there's no security to a .doc(x) file -- anyone can change it practically at will --, as opposed to a .pdf? On Oct 15, 9:38*am, Tom Adams wrote: I get the impression that .doc files can't be used for electronic delivery because some of the features (custom autotext, styles) are not in the .doc file. Is that true?- I am not talking about security. I'm not talking about encryption and such, but simply about preserving the content (which anyone can alter) and formatting (which depends on the default printer selected on the computer that opens the file -- if recipient has a different default printer, then your pagination may well come out different). Not to mention, if recipient doesn't have exactly the same fonts, Word will make a substitution, and sometimes what it chooses for substitution can be very odd indeed. In Word 2007 you can mark a compatibility mode document as final. They imply its readonly. *But, if you have custom autotext, Word still tries to do an automatic update of the autotext fields and changes the "readonly" document. The only "Final" I know about is the one that temporarily conceals your Tracked Changes, and that setting depends entirely on the computer. You can't send a document in "Final" and prevent it from opening as "Final Showing Markup" on the recipient's computer. (Which is why you should always be sure you've Accepted all changes before you hand it around.) "Readonly," I gather (I've never had a reason to use it) is easily overcome. I think the real problem is that .doc is just not suitable for electronic delivery. *PDF would be better. For all the above reasons. |
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