-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 May 2002 08:37 am, Jeff wrote: > John Griffiths, 2002-May-30 10:29 +1000: > > openoffice is the answer > > > > also for pdf files you want a recent veriosn of xpdf to handle the new > > 1.4 pdf format > > > > At 05:27 PM 5/29/02 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > >Hello. Like others here, I suspect, I've developed over the years a > > >little toolbox of stratagems for dealing with the Word documents that > > >people insist on sending me. > > > > > >It seems to me, though, that it's proving steadily more difficult to > > >deal with this problem. Abiword (in my experience) used to deal well > > >with most kinds of Word documents; but in the past year or so (I > > >assume because people are using some new version or other of Word), it > > >fails on more and more of the ones I am sent: > > I use OpenOffice as well, but now and then I get a Word doc that > crashes OpenOffice when opening. I then fire up VMWare and start > WIN2000, go get a cup of coffee, and then open the same doc in Word > without trouble. I haven't figure out what's happening yet, and this > hasn't happened with Powerpoint or Excel, yet. > > jc
Quick-tip-o-the-day: Don't close your VMware session, use the "pause" feature, then close the window. This reduced the time from icon click to running app to a few seconds for me! tatah - -- Jaye Inabnit\ARS ke6sls\/A GNU-Debian linux user\/ http://www.qsl.net/ke6sls If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. I SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE89695ZHBxKsta6kMRAqfnAKCG+5QYmEXlqB9V4OaV4WgqTjHM6wCg4TPs TuvrWLh1hoboECB6mhBNaPE= =oMIo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
