Re: the dreaded Word attachment
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On Friday 31 May 2002 08:37 am, Jeff wrote:
> 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
Quick-tip-o-the-day: Don't close your VMware session, use the "pause"
feature, then close the window. This reduced the time from icon click to
running app to a few seconds for me!
tatah
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