Re: Convert .doc to Open editable format
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 02:14:16PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 29 May 2011 17:58:05 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
>
> > Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that
> > the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word
> > format. It is sad to note that encourages the use of a closed-format for
> > something that should mean a contribution to humanity...
> >
> > When trying to open these documents with Ooo 2.x on Debian, headers are
> > displayed incorrectly or there is another problem in how to interpret
> > any other details of the layout of the document.
>
> (...)
>
> Find a computer with MS Word on it and save/export the document from
> there to another file format. With some DOC files (mostly those with
> tables and/or images or complex layouts), I've not found a better way to
> get a readable file ;-(
>
Better yet, ask the teacher to do that for you (since he obviously has
the software). It will also give him the opportunity to see the trouble
he has caused for you.
-Rob
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