Hi :) Ah, so if it's never been touched by MSO is you Odt version as up-to-date as your Doc version? It's best to do all editing in the Odt and then only save a snapshot for sharing as Doc but then keep editing the Odt rather than the Doc. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Sandy Harris <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2013, 1:44 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file > >On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> 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. > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
