I get tons of all-campus email, and more and more of these seem to be of the form “Please see the attached Word file, containing a plain text document with minimal formatting that could just as easily have been pasted into the body of the message.” Happily, I have my campus email forwarded to my GMail account, and I can opt to view the text as HTML, rather than opening Word to see it, but it’s irritating.<\/p>\n
Is there some reason why it would be preferable to send campus announcements out as Word files rather than as plain text in an email? Or is this just a case of laziness and technical incompetence?<\/p>\n
Is there a polite way to tell people (many of whom outrank me) to knock this off because it irritates me to no end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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