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 -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
