Article: Is a Paperless Society Possible? - Part II.

This two-part review started with a simple desire to e-mail a draft of a report to a client across the country. My original file was prepared with WordPerfect 7.0 and my client used Word. This turned out to be a major challenge. I started by asking WordPerfect to save the file as a Word Doc. It's supposed to be able to do that, but when I looked at the resulting DOC file with Word and saw the horrible mess that had been created, I thought I should maybe go the other way and ask Word to try opening the WordPerfect file. It's supposed to be able to do so, but it just gave up and crashed. Between them Corel and Microsoft had knowingly or unknowingly put a set of roadblocks in ...

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