On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:52:52 +0200 Volker Holfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> Am 18.07.2012 um 12:42 schrieb <[email protected]>: > > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I also belong to the opensuse mailing list and someone sent in a post about > > a .doc that OOo won't open. He says it's an MS Word 2010 document. > > > > I tried it with AOo 3.4 and sure enough, it won't open. It says it's > > 'corrupted' and asks to try and fix it which it fails at. > > > > Others on the list also tried. One person tried with LibreOffice 3.5 and > > said it did the same thing except when it offered to 'fix' it, it did so > > successfully. That same person also said 'Symphony' opened the document > > without a hiccup. > > > > I'll attach the document in the hopes that this will give the folks at AOo > > a chance to look into what's wrong and get it fixed or see why this is > > happening. I'd like to see AOo stay around as it's my favorite. > > > > > > -- > > Powered by Slackware Linux 13.37 > > > > Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented worker', is like calling a home > > intruder an 'unwanted houseguest'. > > <PERENNIAL.doc> > > > Hi, > > the document is in Office OpenXML format, but is has the wrong extension, > renaming it to ".docx" would do the trick to open it. I tried with AOO 3.4 on > Mac OSX. With the extension ".doc" AOO assumes the document is in M$ Word > proprietary binary format. > > - Volker. > That's apparently what it was...a bunch of others have figured it out and replied on that list. Thanks. -- Powered by Slackware Linux 13.37 Calling an illegal alien an 'undocumented worker', is like calling a home intruder an 'unwanted houseguest'.
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