[wplug] Re: MISM mentor program

Russ Schneider russpgh at stargate.net
Mon Feb 10 07:41:04 EST 2003


I'm curious.  I've never been unable to open a word document with 
OpenOffice.  The worst that has happened has been that the formatting 
has been a little off.

Could you send me the .doc file if you still have it?  I'd like to try 
openning it.



Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:

> I'm sorry, but I was unable to read the Microsoft Word document you sent 
> me. Microsoft has been steadily changing the .doc format over the 
> releases of Microsoft Word (4.0, 95, 97, 2000, and now XP). Microsoft 
> has also intentionally refused to release the specification of the .doc 
> format to the community, making Microsoft Word the only application 
> that can reliably open this format. There is the freeware Microsoft 
> Word Viewer application, but it only runs on Microsoft Windows 
> operating systems and does not allow one to edit the document.

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