Hello All! Thank you very much for all the responses I got. Unfortunately, I am still stuck. I am still trying, without success, to open documents into text boxes in Scribus. the documents are emailed to me in Word. I downloaded OpenOffice and converted the document into a .odt file. when i try and open it in the text box the initials 'PK' appeared and nothing else. cutting and pasting the text eliminates the formatting. i'm perplexed because this is a process i've done hundreds of times successfully when i was using Scribus for Ubuntu on my last computer, but now that I am on a MAC no dice.
I really, really appreciate the help I've gotten so far, so many of you have been very generous. I think the help I need at this point is very, very basic. the concepts underlying these issues are very much beyond my knowledge base, so 99% of the comments and responses on the listserv I cannot unfortunately put to use. what i need is advice along the lines of 'click on this icon, then choose x from the drop down menu'. here's what i am currently doing to try and get the files into the DTP: clicking on the text box. clicking on the 'edit text' icon. then clicking on the 'load from file' icon in the story box. any ideas about what i might be doing wrong? thank you so much in advance for any help!
