When something opens, it generally looks for the default editor. You have often seen the infamous Open With. If you go to any .xml file and open it, it will be gibberish, but if you choose open with text, it will be readable and editable.
If a document is to open in Word by default and you remove Word from your computer, it will likely open in WordPad.
Maybe it is a licensing issue, but I doubt it. If you look at VIPER, when you choose to print the vaccinations, what does it open with? Word. Formatted beautifully and editable and able to save anywhere any other Word document can be saved.
I suspect that Jon's reasoning for saving to an HTML file was it was the only way it would automatically save to Imported Items, where you would have to manually save to II if in Word. This is where those who want a better letter writer would need to understand they may need to workaround and save it to a separate folder even if that means in a blank folder within AC. I think saving to a specific folder that correlates with that patient would still require that you make a link, which may be able to be done using the Imported Items tool in the admin section.
The last thought is that VIPER automatically formats Word perfectly where my guess is based on my experiment, the letter writer could save in Word but not formatted correctly, and having to reformat would be a huge waste of time. Doing it the way I did it and ending up with an inside address in all CAPs with the name set up Last Name, First name would not be acceptable.
Finally, if it were changed to this format of printing to Word, the excuse that everyone does not have Word certainly falls on my deaf ears and, of course, Open Office is available for free and yet another example of how it would print to the likely highest editor available. If not, that is easy to change in Microsoft in two places.
