[SLE] attached .doc files problem (9.1)

From: Doug McGarrett (dmcgarrett_at_optonline.net)
Date: 08/15/04

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    Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:03:43 -0400
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    In accordance with some help from this group a week or two ago, I
    learned that I have to detach files to a directory before trying to
    read them in a word processor. So I do that.

    I have OpenOffice that came with 9.1, and WordPerfect that I recently
    bought, which Corel is not selling any more, I guess due to
    muchos problemos. There does not seem to be any real help for
    Linux on their web-site.

    I receive files in .doc format which I need to print out and edit.
    With WP, the file is converted, and then the program hangs, and the file
    cannot (usually) be printed, but the formatting seems to be OK. With
    OpenOffice, the file is readable with a whole lot of garbage on the top and
    the bottom, and all the formatting--bold, italics, line spacing--is gone.

    Please, does anyone have a solution for this? I thought that OO was
    working, I got a couple of files a week or so that had the formatting intact,
    but now that's all gone.

    I would buy the commercial version of OO from Sun, but how do I know it
    would work any better? Must I go back to Windows? WP for Windows works
    well.

    I have the Reiser FS. How can I copy files from this FS to the NTFS system
    using Windows, since Linux will not allow me to write to the NTFS system.
    Then I could boot to Win and use the Win tools on the files.

    --doug 

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