From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I think it's a good thing they changed the format, just ten years overdue.
It'll take a few years for others to catch up, but the new format is really
very good - it's all XML, inside a ZIP file, so it'll be super easy for any
other software to read the files. Very cool for data exchanging, searching,
indexing, you name it.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
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> Leave it to Microsoft to piss off  the Journal of the American Association
> for the Advancement of Science ( largest scientific society in the world )
>
> Good show Redmond - keep up the good work ;->
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> "mike"  wrote in message
> news:iib463h8k6li475a979cvcl015le360922{at}4ax.com...
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>> http://www.sciencemag.org/about/authors/prep/docx.dtl
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>>
>> ===
>> Because of changes Microsoft has made in its recent Word release that
>> are incompatible with our internal workflow, which was built around
>> previous versions of the software, Science cannot at present accept any
>> files in the new .docx format produced through Microsoft Word 2007,
>> either for initial submission or for revision. Users of this release of
>> Word should convert these files to a format compatible with Word 2003 or
>> Word for Macintosh 2004 (or, for initial submission, to a PDF file)
>> before submitting to Science.
>>
>> Users of Word 2007 should also be aware that equations created with the
>> default equation editor included in Microsoft Word 2007 will be
>> unacceptable in revision, even if the file is converted to a format
>> compatible with earlier versions of Word; this is because conversion
>> will render equations as graphics and prevent electronic printing of
>> equations, and because the default equation editor packaged with Word
>> 2007 -- for reasons that, quite frankly, utterly baffle us -- was not
>> designed to be compatible with MathML....
>> ===
>>
>>
>> Typical of Microsoft, thinking the world revolves around Redmond, WA.
>>
>>  /m
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