i don't speak code

co-worker & i are unofficially the software gurus of the office....which says a lot about the rest of the office's capabilities. if anything needs to get done & someone is unable to figure it out themselves, they don't research it themselves, they come to us to figure it out for them.

so first thing yesterday morning, we get a forward of a forward of an email that someone has a doc that they need in xml/sgml. the extent of my knowledge in that arena is that is some variant of html code...& that's it. co-worker's knowledge was the equivalent of mine, but she has other work so it was my responsiblity.

keep in mind my limited research capabilities, even more restricted download abilities (microsoft.com was denied!), not to mention it has to be free; it was looking like an impossible task. i searched converting from word, rtf, interleaf but got lucky w/adobe
(who would have thought? adobe i'm sorry for all the bad things i've said about you)
although word has an xml toolbar (that i couldn't download), adobe has a simple export to xml - very nice!

oh & i picked up some simple html code in the meantime...sweet!