On 02/05/2009 05:35 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > 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.
Well, I wouldn't as I haven't actually used Word for quite some time except for testing. :-) 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. > > Brian Barker Good points... I'll give that a try tomorrow and see if it makes a difference. Thanks Brian. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
