open office

[norman]

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> > > > 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!

If any one else agrees with this and would like to see the file just
contact me off list.

Norman