[Charlug] need help with wording....

[Doug Pyatt]

We can use Wordpad on the windows computers to see the content - 
I am just trying to get people to switch or send in a friendly format so we don't have to work around the problem.

I guess I just cant understand those who upgrade Microsoft just to get the latest and greatest - when they don't even use a fraction of what they had to start with.

When I switched everyone to openoffice at work - you would not believe the crying - 
Most of them just wanted MS just to have MS.  They would tell me a function that they could do in MS but not find in OpenOffice - I would as what the keystroke was (of course they did not know it) - I would tell them it was the same keystroke - LOOK IT UP.   

As you can tell - I don't want to give anyone a reason why we cant use openoffice - and this might happen if we don't solve the problem of documents that are sent into us in a proprietary format.

Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin" <kjsisson at bellsouth.net>
To: "Doug Pyatt" <dpyatt at carolina.rr.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Charlug] need help with wording....


Doug Pyatt wrote:
> The last docment we got pulled into openoffice had two empty text boxes - could not see the text at all.  With Wordpad - we were able to read the words (and MS Word 2000) but the formating was shoved left instead of being centered in the page (we had them fax it to us).
> 
> Thanks
> Doug
> 
> 


I don't know if this will help, but I had a similar problem with the 
newer versions of Word Perfect. A document created with an older WP had 
pictures in boxes. When I opened the document in a newer WP (the 
versions weren't that different; something like 6.1 old and 7 or 
whatever the next version was called), the box outline was there, but no 
contents. However, if I saved the document in the newer format and then 
reopened it, the box contents were there, but the format was messed up. 
If this works with your software, could you save the text box contents 
from the 'messed up' format version and paste into the 'good format' 
version?

Kevin