I've just been pondering about times when I may have received or sent an attachment that won't open. The only ones I can think of are the .docx files that word 2007 create. I've submitted assignments in a course I did last year that the teacher couldn't open due to this.
Apart from Microsoft's usual lack of conforming to a standard, I don't think I've had a problem for years. There is sort of a unwritten understanding at my company that we only send a file that we know will work such as a PDF, DOC, JPEG, etc. Our computer network uses office 2003 at the moment so we don't have the .docx problem. But soon we will be upgrading to the latest version of Office, so I'm sure we'll have an issue when people start saving press releases and the like with Office 2007's default save to docx.
The problem is these press releases go out to a lot of external parties who may not have word 2007, so I could imagine this will be a major problem. PDF is usually not applicable in this case because the press releases often need to be edited for local purposes.
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Hey Chris, Word 2007 can still save a file as a backwards compatible .doc file if you need it.
Personally I find PDF files the way to go especially with so many stand alone editors such as Infix available. There's even some reasonable free solutions out there as well.
You know this issue comes up every time Microsoft releases a new version of office. I given up with office and now use OpenOffice and its free. BTW it opens docx file as well.
As you say PDF is Great for final release unlless you hav the ADOBE editor.
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