[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.
--
___________________________________
Russ Schneider (a.k.a. Sugapablo)
http://www.sugapablo.com
More information about the wplug
mailing list