|
|
| (2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) |
| Line 2: |
Line 2: |
| | ---- | | ---- |
| | I've added a translated version of this page. HTH to Chinese developers.--[[User:Zhangxiaofei|Zhangxiaofei]] 13:09, 12 August 2007 (CEST) | | I've added a translated version of this page. HTH to Chinese developers.--[[User:Zhangxiaofei|Zhangxiaofei]] 13:09, 12 August 2007 (CEST) |
| − |
| |
| − | == Problems with "."s in the filename of Write saved "*.doc" formatted douments ==
| |
| − |
| |
| − | I downloaded OpenOffice because it has been around for a while and should be utterly stable by now. I even had the confidence to uninstall MS Office (shock, horror!) It was happily working and so was I until a college of mine sent me a Word doc to edit. I did that in OpenOffice and saved the output file to "*.doc" format. I emailed it back my friend and she could NOT open it in Word. Word went through a process of installing a document import feature which ended with a dialogue box providing options to make the code readable to Word! ... none of which worked of course.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | So I then reinstalled Word... same thing happened to me... then I looked at the filename .... it was
| |
| − |
| |
| − | "Anger in AN inpatients 20.9.07.doc"
| |
| − |
| |
| − | ...see the "." s in the filename?
| |
| − |
| |
| − | That's the problem.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | 1. OpenOffice can open it.
| |
| − | 2. MS Word can open it.
| |
| − | 3. OpenOffice can save it as a "*.doc"
| |
| − | 4. Word can save it as a "*.doc"
| |
| − | 5. Word cannot open the OpenOffice saved "*.doc" document.
| |
| − | 6. The "."s in the filename are the problem
| |
| − | 7. However, if you rename the OpenOffice saved document, replacing the "."s with (for eg;) "-"s, then Word CAN open the file.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | Why can't Word recognise an OpenOffice saved MS doc with "."s in the filename?
| |
| − |
| |
| − | I am sorry. I have no idea about "structure" or hopw to do a "Wiki" page correctly.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | My point however must be clarified.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | It is this:
| |
| − |
| |
| − | When OpenOffice Write saves a file with a "." (a colon) in the filename (eg my.file.doc), MS Word can no longer read the3 file as a native *.doc file.
| |
| − |
| |
| − |
| |
| − | 1. Create a document in MS word and save it as "my.file.doc
| |
| − | 2. Open the file in OpenOffice Write and edit the document and save that (overwrite) as "my.file.doc"
| |
| − | 3. Try and open the document in MS Word.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | It cannot open the file. However...
| |
| − |
| |
| − | 4. RENAME (in Explorer)"my.file.doc" to "my_file.doc".
| |
| − |
| |
| − | Word can now open the document.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | I hope this with my last posting makes it more clear... if anyone can do better ...please, be my guest. As I say, I know nothing...just trying to be helpful.
| |
| − |
| |
| − | Regards, CBSEBE :)
| |
I've added a link to the original cvs faq, because in my opinion this wiki page is seriously lacking. It does not even mention anonymous (read-only) access, which I was looking for, and does not really describe how to get an account (only has a link to how to get a different ooo-build account). Also it's unstructured and not quite clearly-written. Until it's improved I think a link to the original page is most useful. Also the page should be renamed. "CVS Guide" comes to mind for example. It also has a number of formatting errors (in the patch/diff section). I can't quite follow the original intentions of the author to fix it. Or maybe http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.3/source.html should just link to Getting It instead of this page. Getting It is concise and I think it is more in line with one expects to find when trying to check out the source from cvs. --Cyhawk 17:52, 24 August 2006 (CEST)
