On Friday 28 Jan 2005 20:51, Ryan Sommers wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton said: > > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:05 -0700, Ryan Sommers wrote: > >> Is it possible to open Word 2.0 files in OOo? Or how can I convert them > >> to > >> something it can open? > > > > No OOo does not import Word2 files. THis is stated in product info > > somewhere. Save them as RTF. > > The problem is some program one of our customers uses to generate orders > seems to save them in Word 2.0 format. I'm attempting to find some way to > convert them to a format OOo can understand. However, so far I haven't > come up with anything. Which unfortauntely might mean that we will not be > free from the MS Office Suite.
If you only want to read the text (which I know is a poor substitute for opening a formatted file) then this command on a unix box: string whatever.doc Should extract the text. There may be a Windows equivalent, or Cygwin would also do. -- Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
