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| − | == Problems with "."s (colons) in the filename of Write saved *.doc formatted douments ==
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| − | 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 Write and saved the output file to "*.doc" format. I emailed it back my friend and she could NOT open it with MS Word. She said the document must have been "corrupted" by OpenOffice Write. MS Word went through a complex process of installing a document import feature which ended with a dialogue box providing options to make the code readable to MS Word and so on ... none of which features worked to open the document.
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| − | So I then reinstalled MS Word and tried to open the document... the same thing happened to me... then I looked at the filename .... it was:
| + | -- [[User:Discoleo|Discoleo]] 21:20, 24 March 2008 (CET) |
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| | + | == Problems with periods in the filename of OpenOffice Write saved *.doc format files == |
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| − | "Anger in AN inpatients 20.9.07.doc"
| + | MS Word cannot read an Oo Write saved *.doc format file that contains a period in the filename. |
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| − | ...see the "." (colons) in the filename? They cause a problem.
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| − | 1. OpenOffice Write can open a file with a colon in the filename.
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| − | 2. MS Word can open a file with a colon in the filename.
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| − | 3. OpenOffice Write can save a file with a colon in the filename as a *.doc (MS Word document)
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| − | 4. Of course MS Word can save a file with a colon in the filename as a *.doc
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| − | 5. However, MS Word cannot open a file with a colon in the filename that OpenOffice Write has saved as a *.doc format.
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| − | The colons n the filename are the problem
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| − | 7. The SOLUTION is to RENAME the OpenOffice Write *.doc document, replacing the "."s with (for eg;) "-"s.
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| − | 8. MS Word can now open the document.
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| − | But why can't MS Word recognise an OpenOffice Write saved *.doc with colons in the filename?
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| − | RE COMMENT: I am sorry. I have no idea about "structure" or how to do a "Wiki" page correctly.
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| − | My point obviously however must be clarified. To this end I have edited the above and also provided an additional explanation below.
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| − | It is this:
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| − | When OpenOffice Write saves a file with a "." (a colon) in the filename (eg "my.file.doc"), MS Word can no longer read the file as a native *.doc file (It cannot read it at all).
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| − | 1. Create a document in MS Word and save it as "my.file.doc"
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| − | 2. Open the file in OpenOffice Write and edit the document and simply re-save that (overwrite) as "my.file.doc"
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| − | 3. Now try and open "my.file.doc in MS Word.
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| − | Word cannot open the file. Not only that - it wants to install a document import feature and things become very complicated very quickly. However... to fix the problem...
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| − | 4. RENAME (in Explorer)"my.file.doc" to "my_file.doc".
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| − | MS Word can now open the document with no problems at all.
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| − | I hope this - with my previous posting above - makes it more clear... if anyone can do better and wants to edit all this ...please, be my guest. As I say - I know absolutely nothing ...just trying to be helpful.
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| − | Regards, CBSEBE :)
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I could not reproduce this with OOo 2.4-dev (en locale) and MS Office XP on W2k (en locale). Please check again this issue. If the problem persists, please add a more comprehensive description including:
MS Word cannot read an Oo Write saved *.doc format file that contains a period in the filename.
