Re: Both Abiword and OpenOffice fail to read Word file.

2010-03-03 Thread Christian Körner
On 03/03/10 16:46, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a Word file that nither OpenOff ci nor Abiword seem to be able to > read. > > AbiWord reports, > > AbiWord cannot open file:///farhome/hendrik/books/review-me/ > Book1PropertyoftheQueen.doc. It appears to be an invalid document > > OpenOffice says

Re: Both Abiword and OpenOffice fail to read Word file.

2010-03-03 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> I believe there's a fair chance that the strings command will extract the > useful stuff. If not, there are free (legal) viewers for Word and Excel > files that may run under Wine, I've never tried. No need for WINE. Can always just upload to google docs. -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Both Abiword and OpenOffice fail to read Word file.

2010-03-03 Thread Joe
Hendrik Boom wrote: I have a Word file that nither OpenOff ci nor Abiword seem to be able to read. AbiWord reports, AbiWord cannot open file:///farhome/hendrik/books/review-me/ Book1PropertyoftheQueen.doc. It appears to be an invalid document OpenOffice says, General Error, General input/out

Re: Both Abiword and OpenOffice fail to read Word file.

2010-03-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 03 March 2010 10:46:46 Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have a Word file that nither OpenOff ci nor Abiword seem to be able to > read. > > AbiWord reports, > > AbiWord cannot open file:///farhome/hendrik/books/review-me/ > Book1PropertyoftheQueen.doc. It appears to be an invalid document > >