open office

[drew einhorn]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:25 PM, norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
>
> > >>     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.

To me, it sounds like a very desirable feature,
not a bug!

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Drew Einhorn