At 15:23 05/02/2009 -0800, Gary Noop wrote:
The first page has (in Word) a single graphic, and two text boxes. The first text box (refer to the link PJH provided). For some reason, no matter the version of Word used to save the doc, OOo opens with 4 graphics, 4 'Resident Handbook' text boxes, 4 '2009' text boxes, plus 4 blank frames.
You will know that the .doc format allows editing amendments to be added to the end of a document file instead of being applied to it, and that Word performs these "fast saves" by default instead of rewriting the file properly. Is it possible that the OpenOffice input filter is failing properly to sort out the effect of these amendments on the document content? If so, a workaround would be to ask the author to do a Save As... to a new file name in Word, which causes Word to perform a garbage collection. This is anyway probably good practice before sending documents to others, as it will generally reduce the size of the file.
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