You want to transmit a Microsoft Word document to a colleague, but she doesn't have a copy of Word to read it.

Question

You want to transmit a Microsoft Word document to a colleague, but she doesn't have a copy of Word to read it. She says, "No problem, send it to me as a plain text (ASCII) file." What happens to the document when you do this? How does this solve the problem?

Answer 1

Sending it as text takes out any formatting you created.

You could just paste the text it into an email..

There is OpenOffice your friend can download. Its a free Office Suite in the opensource community. It is a very mature product.

http://www.openoffice.org

OpenOffice Contains

Writer – Word Equivalent.
Calc – Excel Equivalent.
Impress – PowerPoint Equivalent
Draw
Base – Access Equivalent
Math

Answer 2

The Microsoft Word Viewer can be downloaded at the following site. http://www.google.com/search?q=ms+word+reader+download&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS239US239&aq=t

Or you can save the file as an "rtf" Rich Text Format. But this can cause a lose of formatting.

Answer 3

Save it as a .rtf (rich text format.) If you send it as ASCII all the formatting will be lost, but rtf will keep it.
Just, when you're saving, change the format in the drop-down box from .doc to .rtf.

Answer 4

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