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Hi, absolutely agree about the hide extensions crap, this is indeed one of the first things I fix on any computer I am working on for anyone. I knew it went back a long way but pretty much the first version of windows I had a screen reader for was win98. It continues to be the same up through windows 7 and I am sure Windows 8 will be no better.

Just to keep this message in line with the subject yes I routinely share ODF documents with Office users because they insist on running MS crap where I work whereas I refuse to give the bastards at MS any more money than absolutely necessary.

Best regards,

Tom

-----Original Message----- From: Jay Lozier
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 1:38 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Do You Share ODF Documents With MS OfficeUsers?

On 07/25/2012 04:00 PM, Andreas Säger wrote:
Am 25.07.2012 21:29, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 25/07/12 20:25, Andreas Säger wrote:
Every MS Office user can save the much more compatible doc and xls
easily.

One of the major problems with Windows 7 (and possibly Vista - I can't
remember) is that the "Show file extensions for known file types" is
switched OFF by default (God knows why) so the user may not even KNOW
they are working with docx or xlsx instead of .doc or .xls...


This default setting is one of the most serious issues since Windows '95. They know very well why they install it like that. Every knowledgable user knows why this is the one of the first option to be turned off for each new Windows installation.

The problem is that many users are not even aware they can change the
setting. Many malware packages exploit this file extension hiding. The
last time I reset it I believe I had to drill down about 3 or 4 levels
before I could change it.

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Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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