<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Do they need to be able to modify your documents?<br><br>If not, consider exporting PDF. They will get a high-fidelity, but read-only "printed" version of your doc. That's what I do, most of the time.<br><br>If they need to edit your documents, consider using a more primitive format. Rather than .docx or .xlsx, use .doc, .rtf, .html, .txt, .tdv and so on. Maximize the ratio of information to decoration.<br><br>Consider having another person, someone that can send documents everyone can use, originate all the documents, so that you're editing their format, rather than them editing yours.<br><br><div><span name="x"></span>--<br>David L. Willson<br>Teacher, Engineer, Evangelist<br>RHCE+Satellite CCAH Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 UbuntuCP NovellCLA<br>Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)<br>http://sofree.us<br><br>This is a good time for a r3VOLution.<span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">
<font size="+1">Gang,<br>
<br>
I have been a "clue" for about 15 years. I am on a Board made up
of Mac and Windows users. I need to share files with all of
them. However, when I save a LibreOffice Writer or Calc file as
docx or xslx, a couple of them cannot open it. One of them claims
to have Windows 8.x, while the other has a Mac laptop.<br>
<br>
I have spent the better part of today trying various options to
save a file from Calc because of various "default" permissions settings
using umask and other things, as suggested from Google searchs.
Nothing seems to work. <br>
<br>
My problem seems to be that I sometimes forget to change the
permissions of a file before I attach it to an e-mail. Even then,
this week, the Mac user has been unable to open a spreadsheet,
possibly because her program has some default setting.<br>
<br>
Help!<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
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Chuck Downing
Highlands Ranch, CO USA</pre>
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