Re: Club documents

I just wanted to mention that there is a f re e solution to this.

OpenOffice is a suite of programs that is open source and community supported.

Their Writer is MS Word compatible and can export to PDF

just open the file menu and it's about 1/2 way down.

Either Adrian or Ira could use it. Adrian could download and use it to open the

Word files, or Ira could open the document in Writer and export for placement

on the web. I personally like PDF files for sharing on the web because they

won't deliver viruses and such, and because they can't be changed by those

who aren't supposed to. Neither of which would apply here, but they are very

good reasons to like PDF.

I hope this helps resolve things.

Mike Z

Adrian Elliott <adrian@awrelliott.com> wrote:

Hello guys, just wanted to mention again that not everyone in the world has or uses Microsoft Word. This means that if a peson doesn't have Microsoft Word they can't open the club documents in the memebers section. Adobe Acrobat has become the internet standard because of it's FREE downloadable reader that let's anyone and everyone read it's .pdf documents. The only downside to this is the Acrobat software used to create the readable documents is expensive ($300.00). If we can't at least get that then I would recommend making a HTML version of all the documents so they can at least be read online. If that is too time consuming then only put basic text versions of the documents up. In Microsoft Word select File>>Save As>>then when the save as window opens up, under "Save as Type" change it to "text file *.txt". This will make the file a basic text file. Most computer operating systems include a program that can read the simple text files. Thank you.