Sandy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It's pretty rare for a Doc file to completely refuse to open in LibreOffice. > > Maybe, but I have one. > >> With DocX is slightly less rare. It's much more likely that the file is >> corrupted or also has problems in other versions of MicroSquish Office or >> even the same version of MSO on a different OS. > > This file has never seen MSO, It has only been edited in L-O. > I tried opening it in Wordpad as part of diagnosis after L-O > failed to read it. > >> So, i guess the question is have you really tried opening the file on >> another Windows box. > > Until it started failing, this file lived on my Linux box and > was edited only with L-O. I have tested opening it with > Wordpad since the only Windows machine handy has > that. It has never been touched by MSO. > > Next step is to try Abiword on the Linux machine. If > that does not work & nobody has a better idea, I'll > install MSO on the Windows box.
Interesting. Abiword reads it OK, though with some format oddities. -- 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
