Re: Plain Text Files Preferred

["Jeff Johnson" <jsjohnson@shaw.ca>]

--- In dq-rules@yahoogroups.com, "dbarrass_2000" 
<david.barrass@e...> wrote:

> (and don't tell me that you can save as HTML from
> word, the output is horrible :--(

Aside:
Word XP and Word 2003 have the option of outputting "Filtered HTML" 
which is excellent - all the formatting is done is a stylesheet at 
the top, and the rest is clean and compact. This is built-in to Word 
2003 but I think was an addin to Word XP. 

The Word 97/2000/XP default HTML format is messy and has too much 
office-specific stuff because it isn't meant as HTML per se, but is 
meant to be merely an interim format allowing you to 'round-trip' 
Office documents on local intranets. Similarly, Word 2003 "WordXML" 
format is a bit too bulky and - although this will change soon - not 
yet supported nby third-party tools.

As long as the 'production' files are in TXT or HTML, though, it 
doesn't matter to me what format anyone's working files are in.