Twayne wrote:

>> Hi Twayne,
>>
>> Twayne wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Just wondering if this is standard operating procedure and if so how
>>> to tell when it's going to happen:
>>>
>>> I have an MS Word 2002 created, 68 Meg file, actually a User Manual,
>>> comprised of images, text and tables with text (not images), toc and
>>> index.
>>>
>>> I can not get OOo to open it in Text mode.  Ooo insists on opening
>>> it in Calc instead, which of course makes the file conversion
>>> useless.
>>>
>>> I can copy/paste from one document to the other, but all I get for
>>> the images are placeholders with a path to the image in them.  I
>>> can't make it show the images.
>>>
>>> Am I missing something simple here?
>>
>>
>> I can't believe that in a properly installed version of OpenOffice.org
>> that contains the OOo Writer module a file that indeed is a proper
>> Word file is not detected as such by OOo. So either your installation
>> is somewhat damaged, the file has an extension that is registered to
>> OOo Calc in you system or the file is not a Word file. Or some
>> Gremlins have taken over you computer. :-)
>>
>> Ciao,
>> Mathias
> 
> I have a tendency to agree with you but can't find anything yet.  I'm 
> assuming it has to be some sort of .doc file corruption at the moment 
> and going to attack it that way.  
The simplest idea would be that you send the doc file to me so that I
can have a look on it. You are making me curious. :-)

Or did you send such file already to a QA engineer?

Ciao,
Mathias

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