Hi :) How about changing the goal-posts a bit? Save the document as an Odt and try to get the layout about the same as the docX that you can read. Hopefully that should force everything to switch to the standard default character encoding rather than sticking with whatever the document is currently using.
MS Office 2010 & 2007 can read/write Odts but only using the older ODF formats. LibreOffice can be set to use the older format by Tools - Options - "+Load/Save" - General Then about halfway change "ODF format version" from "1.2 Extended" to "1.0 / 1.1". Then saving as Odt gives a result that should be easy for MS Office to open. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 3/1/12, Onyeibo Oku <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Onyeibo Oku <[email protected]> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice to the Rescue -- Change Character > Encoding > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, 3 January, 2012, 16:29 > This is interesting. I got an > attachment from a friend who complained > that her .docx file is no longer legible when opened with > the native > Word-processing Application (MS-Word). It opens al-right > but its just > gibberish. I assumed this is the work of a virus but > I wanted to see it > anyway (I run LibreOffice on Linux OS ... "Security > Maximus" :) ). > > Its as she said but the characters look somewhat preserved > in their new > character mapping and the images are still there. So > I'm suspecting the > end result is a document with a different character > encoding (e.g. > UTF-8, but what I have here is definitely not UTF-8). She > probably > didn't realise her machine is using a character encoding > that is not in > general usage. > > So the Question is: > How do I change a .docx file from one Character Encoding to > Another? Is > this possible with LibreOffice? > > Regards > Onyeibo > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived > and cannot be deleted > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
