open office

[norman]

> >>     No idea. I use OO to read .doc files and it works without a single 
> >> problem. No idea why yours does not.
> >>     
> >
> > It transpires that the text was somehow designed to to exhibit odd
> > actions such as becoming hazy, contain twinkling colours and other
> > distortions of the text. This shows in Word but not in OO.
> >
  
>     OO is made to open plain .doc files, not those with shading changes 
> ect.

That's fair enough, I don't expect to have to handle such files as a
matter of course.

Norman