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Re: (TFT) Guns in TFT - A big expansion.



On Thu, 16 Jun 2016 20:20:09 +0000 (UTC)
Jeffrey Vandine <jlv61560@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Rick, since you are using Libreoffice to type these things up, why not save
>  them in either .doc or .docx so people that DON'T have LibreOffice (or Ope
> nOffice) can access them?  It's the exact same process, not even any e
> xtra steps, and you'd make the whole audience happy instead of just the one
> s of us that are into Libre/OpenOffice!
> Just sayin'...  ;-)

MS Word can open .odt files, since the format they're stored in is 
defined and open to all to use.  The .doc/.docx format is proprietary,
and must be reverse-engineered for others to use, with no guarantee that
they have it right.  The Open Document Format is a much better choice.

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