hari78 Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 i am unable to open some MS word files in star office 7 where as many others open well. What shall be the reason for this and what is the way to fix it? any body plz help a file which cannot be opened in its proper format is attached here i am using mandrake 10.0 thanks in advance A_concept_note_on_the_Adolescence_Education_Programme.doc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 17, 2005 Report Share Posted April 17, 2005 hi :) i just made a test with your document and i can open it without any problems with openoffice on 10.1 (i don't have star office). but as OOo and star office are quite similar, i simply ask myself if your staroffice version is simply incapable to open newer word-docs. afaik, staroffice can open some but not all ms-office 2003 files without problems. the easiest way to get past this problem would be to save the documents on the windows machine in a file format that you actually can open and write to, like office 97/xp or rtf or install OOo. but maybe someone else here knows how to fix it in so7. :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
payasam Posted April 23, 2005 Report Share Posted April 23, 2005 When I tried to open your file in SO 7.2 (Product Update 4), it was recognised as a text file. When it opened, there were masses of junk characters, most of them the hash mark. For some reason I am unable to add the SXW conversion as an attachment. It is a single paragraph. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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