Re: the dreaded Word attachment
John Griffiths, 2002-May-30 10:29 +1000:
> openoffice is the answer
>
> also for pdf files you want a recent veriosn of xpdf to handle the new 1.4
> pdf format
>
> At 05:27 PM 5/29/02 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> >
> >Hello. Like others here, I suspect, I've developed over the years a
> >little toolbox of stratagems for dealing with the Word documents that
> >people insist on sending me.
> >
> >It seems to me, though, that it's proving steadily more difficult to
> >deal with this problem. Abiword (in my experience) used to deal well
> >with most kinds of Word documents; but in the past year or so (I
> >assume because people are using some new version or other of Word), it
> >fails on more and more of the ones I am sent:
I use OpenOffice as well, but now and then I get a Word doc that
crashes OpenOffice when opening. I then fire up VMWare and start
WIN2000, go get a cup of coffee, and then open the same doc in Word
without trouble. I haven't figure out what's happening yet, and this
hasn't happened with Powerpoint or Excel, yet.
jc
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