Anja,

===== Friday, March 12, 2004, 6:21:46 AM, you wrote:

A> Terry has sent me an rtf file which she copied through
A> Open Office and it worked out just fine.

Actually, in this particular case I used Star Office v5.2
(very old free version), as it's the only version installed
on my computer right now. But Open Office.org should work
just fine, since it's basically the same program.

I've been using Star Office for years to fix corrupted Word
docs.

Words of warning:

= Check tables and headers/footers carefully, as the
conversion can mess them up a bit - but not always.

= I imagine a similar thing might happen with text boxes,
but I never came across those, so I don't know for sure.

= Styles should be OK - they were fine in all the docs I
"fixed".

One more tip: If you have Word Perfect, try using that - it
might work just as well. I used to use WP years ago to
convert from one Word format to another, because their Word
converters were much better than the ones in Word! Or I'd
simply save the imported Word doc in Word Perfect format,
which Word could convert without a problem (naturally, since
it's the competition!).

--

Terry

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