RDMcBride wrote:
Thank you, Naomi and CPH;
You're welcome :-)
Your patience in dealing with underfed PC users as myself is
extraordinary.
When I have time, I like to help out people who make polite requests for
help. Some days they seem to be a dying breed...
When you say, " Word uses a 'doc' file type, and files using that
format have a '.doc' extension after the file name given by the user",
this means to me that I may treat one "doc" as another ".doc". I
suppose I am treating 'fred' like 'frank'? Does it really make any
difference?
I'm not sure if you're confused between a 'document' (a generic term
meaning a file created in a word processor) and a 'doc' file type
(Microsoft's own file format).
Otherwise, I am guessing what was at the heart of CPH's admonition was
NOT to simply erase the .doc off the thend of a "string". Is that
correct? Rather, one should save the whole file through the Save As
function, using the "Save as type" pull down menu list of
associations? I suppose this sends changes back through Registry while
merely erasing .doc and adding .swx does not? The latter merely leaves
an unidentifiable sxptz on the page?
When you do the 'Save as type' process, the program goes through its
file and changes all of its _frank_ to *frank* so that the other program
(eg. Word) will know how to display it. Likewise, if it opens a Word
'doc' file, it needs to know to translate *frank* to _frank_.
Think of it as being like different languages. If you have a letter
written in German, you can go get a German-English dictionary and puzzle
out the basic meaning of that letter. But if you're under the impression
that it's written in French, and go get a French-English dictionary,
then you'll probably give up in despair because you can't work out what
it means. That's what you risk doing if you change the '.doc' file
extension (like writing 'this letter is written in French' on the
outside of the envelope) without changing the actual file type
(translating the letter to French).
So, in a perfect world, should the "Save as type" really be "Save as
file type"?
If I now understand CPH's original meaning, it makes no difference
that I learned to do this long ago through triala nd error; my problem
is a failure to understand the word associations -- which is why I
can't make head or tails of the GTK site, and they are doing stuff I
need to understand.
Thanks for your kind willingness to help ..........................
Richard
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