Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem reading Word 2003 document

Okay, I must be brain-dead.  I misread "nabble" as "nobble."

Looking at nabble, it's way more than I need if anyone want's to look at 
the document with which I'm having trouble.  It can be downloaded from 
http://beachware.org/Dec12.doc.

Thanks, all, for the support.
Chris


On 11/27/2012 11:41 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 11/28/2012 01:14 AM, Chris Carlson wrote:
> > I'm new to this e-mail list, so excuse me if this is something 
> > discussed already.
> >
> > I've been very pleased with LibreOffice on many fronts.  I recommend 
> > it to everyone.  As a matter of fact, I use it instead of Word at 
> > every opportunity.  At work, though, I use Word because that's what's 
> > installed.
> >
> > I write a newsletter for the American Legion.  Since it was developed 
> > in Word, I use my old student copy of Word 2003 to create it each 
> > month.  I have to provide both a .doc and .pdf of the newsletter to 
> > the printers.  My trick, since Word 2003 doesn't offer a .pdf output, 
> > is to read the .doc with LibreOffice (3.5) and publish it to .pdf.
> >
> > For the first time in months, LibreOffice can't seem to recognize the 
> > .doc format.  I'm using the same version of Word that I've used for 
> > months.  The newsletter is basically the same file, which I copy and 
> > modify for the new month.  For whatever reason, LibreOffice tries to 
> > open it as a text file.  It initially asks what text encoding it 
> > should use, waits for a long time, and then opens a garbage document.
> >
> > Is this a known problem?  Did I do something to the document that 
> > caused it to be read incorrectly?
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas on this.
> >
> > Chris
> Which subversion of 3.5 are you using?
>
> doc formats are generally well behaved for importing into LO. 
> Occasionally there is file that does not load correctly.
>
> You might try saving the file as rtf and try opening that in LO. Once 
> you get the newsletter to open is to save it using ODF formats instead 
> of doc format.
>
> One trick you can try is to rename the Libreoffice users folder - I am 
> not sure on Windows where it is. Restart LO and the folder will be 
> recreated. If there is a garbled setting this sometimes fixes the 
> problem.
>
> If you can post a typical file to Nabble someone may be able to see if 
> they can replicate the problem.


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