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On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 11:10:24PM -0500, Scott wrote:
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> On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 01:32:18PM +1000, Clayton Bonser wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > As the secretary of a social club, from time to time I need to email
> > various files.
> > Recently I have been noticing that a lot of people can no longer open
> > files created under open office writer in spite of the document being
> > saved as a Microsoft Word document (.doc format).
>
> Is there any chance that you're accidentally saving them as odt's which
> seems to be the default?
>
> The people who are unable to open them, are they all using the same
> version of Office? Are others able to open them? In which case, which
> version of Office are the ones who can't, and the ones who can open the
> files using?
A few other thoughts--could it be that the people with problems have
recently upgraded and don't realize they have to uncheck something in
Outlook Express or Outlook to open attachments?
Possible workaround, though it might be a waste of time, AbiWord, which
also will save in .doc format.
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Scott Robbins
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