Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file

Sandy Harris <sandyinchina@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > It's pretty rare for a Doc file to completely refuse to open in LibreOffice.
>
> Maybe, but I have one.
>
> > With DocX is slightly less rare.  It's much more likely that the file is
> > corrupted or also has problems in other versions of MicroSquish Office or
> > even the same version of MSO on a different OS.
>
> This file has never seen MSO, It has only been edited in L-O.
> I tried opening it in Wordpad as part of diagnosis after L-O
> failed to read it.
>
> > So, i guess the question is have you really tried opening the file on
> > another Windows box.
>
> Until it started failing, this file lived on my Linux box and
> was edited only with L-O. I have tested opening it with
> Wordpad since the only Windows machine handy has
> that. It has never been touched by MSO.
>
> Next step is to try Abiword on the Linux machine. If
> that does not work & nobody has a better idea, I'll
> install MSO on the Windows box.

Interesting. Abiword reads it OK, though with some
format oddities.

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