[users] Re: The Dreaded .docx format

2007-10-13 Thread NoOp
On 10/12/2007 09:39 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Actually it's not wasting anybody's time as I knew what I needed to do. I tried at least two web based conversion tools which failed. I also tried a tool produced by Novell as a plug-in for their version of OOo but which does not seem always to

[users] Re: The Dreaded .docx format

2007-10-12 Thread NoOp
On 10/12/2007 08:25 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Thanks Mark. It worked. Then all I had to do was delete spurious line breaks, spaces and tabs to recover the text... what a mess! The alternative is that you can ask someone else on the list to convert for you. Not a good situation if the

Re: [users] Re: The Dreaded .docx format

2007-10-12 Thread Keith Bates
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:46:20 -0700 NoOp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/12/2007 08:25 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Thanks Mark. It worked. Then all I had to do was delete spurious line breaks, spaces and tabs to recover the text... what a mess! The alternative is that you can