http://themorningflight.com/church/wasting-church-money-on-ms-office/ "Though I take the wings of the morning..." Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:04:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://themorningflight.com/church/wasting-church-money-on-ms-office/#comment-211 Timothy Barton Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:50:09 +0000 http://themorningflight.com/index.php/2008/04/25/wasting-church-money-on-ms-office/#comment-211 Incidentally, I'm about to embark upon the translation containing more than 50,000 words. The client sent me the document in .doc format. The file weighed 618 KB. When I tried to import it into the program I use to translate in, the program wouldn't import it (it got half way through, then jammed). I tried saving the original document in rtf: the file now weighed 1.5 MB, and again failed to import. I then saved the document as .odt: the file size went down to 148 KB (yes, about a quarter of the original file size!), and imported without any problem. To complete the comparison, I thought I'd give it a try with the docx (Word 2007) format: the file size was 243 kB, and it did import, but took about half an hour, compared with about one minute for the OpenOffice file. Also, the odt file gave a much cleaner import (it's hard to explain what I mean by this without explaining the ins and outs of the program I use, but basically it means it's much easier to work with). Incidentally, I’m about to embark upon the translation containing more than 50,000 words. The client sent me the document in .doc format. The file weighed 618 KB. When I tried to import it into the program I use to translate in, the program wouldn’t import it (it got half way through, then jammed). I tried saving the original document in rtf: the file now weighed 1.5 MB, and again failed to import. I then saved the document as .odt: the file size went down to 148 KB (yes, about a quarter of the original file size!), and imported without any problem. To complete the comparison, I thought I’d give it a try with the docx (Word 2007) format: the file size was 243 kB, and it did import, but took about half an hour, compared with about one minute for the OpenOffice file. Also, the odt file gave a much cleaner import (it’s hard to explain what I mean by this without explaining the ins and outs of the program I use, but basically it means it’s much easier to work with).

]]> http://themorningflight.com/church/wasting-church-money-on-ms-office/#comment-210 Timothy Barton Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:51:06 +0000 http://themorningflight.com/index.php/2008/04/25/wasting-church-money-on-ms-office/#comment-210 When I'm asked to prepare a document from scratch I often send the document in OpenOffice Write or Calc. I invariably get an e-mail from the client saying "please can you send this in Word" or "Excel". :-( When I’m asked to prepare a document from scratch I often send the document in OpenOffice Write or Calc. I invariably get an e-mail from the client saying “please can you send this in Word” or “Excel”.

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