It happened again–had to send out text in .DOC format. For those of you too young to remember. .DOC is the original Microsoft Word format. In fact it’s been upgraded several times; according to Wikipedia, there are 4 versions dating back to the MS-DOS days. And .DOC is a horrid file format, and that’s the nicest …
This one has plagued me for awhile. I wonder if any agents have thrown out my queries just because of it. Thunderbird, it turns out, has a horrible formatting engine. And Microsoft Word pastes with a boatload of extra junk that Thunderbird doesn’t do so well with. At PPWC, one of the faculty actually recommended …