[Discussion] DOCX [Was: can you recommend a laptop?]

[Carl Gehr]

On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:13:58 -0700 (PDT), Jon wrote:

>On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:19:15 -0400 (EDT) Carl Gehr wrote:
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>>A subsequent message from the person who sent the DOCX file said that
>>it was created on a 'new MAC!'
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>Why not ask the person who sent the .docx to save it in w97 mode so that you can use OO to read it?  
>Assuming it was created in MS Word, it's a simple matter to choose save-as instead of save and then 
>toggle the file type to the older, legacy style of .doc

Yes, that's what I did after I discovered the heart of the problem. 
I'm waiting for a replacement file.

Thanks to all for the comments and suggestions.

Carl