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

Thanks.
Opens fine in my opensuse version of LO, which is I think about 3.5.4. 
(3.5 build 403).
steve

On 2012-11-30 05:45, Chris Carlson wrote:
> 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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