PS: Which Bell Labs did you work at? My dad worked forever at Whippany, though we lived in Berkeley Heights 'cuz he was promised (when he took the job in 1969) that he'd be transferred to Murray Hill very soon...
********************************************************* Alan P. Rudy Visiting Associate Professor Dept. Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work Central Michigan University 124 Anspach Hall Mt Pleasant, MI 48858 517-881-6319
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 12:05 PM, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Alan Rudy wrote:
>
>> A simple question, I hope, and pretty much the sole reason I am driven
>> insane by Office 2007... is there any way I can get a readable and
>> functional preview of an Office 2007 document? I've used PowerDesk - an
>> update of the old Norton File Manager - forever and have always been able
>> to
>> read documents in the File Viewer... for grading papers this has been a
>> real
>> boon and time saver... I have to open 2007 docxs and it kills/wastes tons
>> of
>> time.
>>
>
>
>
> Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) has a QuickView mode that works perfectly for the
> above, including for MS format documents. I am not sure if that's enough
> incentive for you to switch to a Mac ;-).
>
> --ravi
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