Can't you turn the problem back on to the person who sent the file? Get them to convert it to Word for you and send it back to you.
Do you have to have it as a Word doc? Why not have it converted to PDF, Postscript or even RTF? -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bob Shell > Sent: 29 November 2006 23:12 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Way OT: File conversion problem > > > On Nov 29, 2006, at 2:15 PM, j wrote: > > > Get a copy of Open Office which is free.There is a Mac version and a > > Windows version and they both will open Word Perfect files....J > > Took a while but I eventually got it installed and working. Problem > is this, it will open the files just fine and will let me save them > in a number of different file formats that I can read in Word. But > it loses the page formatting. These are documents with hundreds of > pages, so when I go to page 170, line 3, in my converted file it has > to be exactly the same as the original if we are going to converse > about these. Any thoughts on how to make that happen? I've tried > several of the formats and they all do this, but don't change the > file in the same way. All produce a very different page count from > the original. > > Bob > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
