In news:4dc016d7.8060...@gmail.com, Francis Dollarhyde <francis.f.dollarh...@gmail.com> typed: > I recently received a .docx file as an attachment. > However, what I tried, LO wouldn't read it. It opened it > but gave a blank page. > The people who sent the file are complete computer > illiterate who follow MS$ like slaves. I assume it is the > latest Word or whatever MS$ uses as text application. It > can well be that the file is composed of pictures. When I > open the file with Hexedit I see content and the first 2 > bytes are hex 50 4B (PK) and byte 31 till 49 contains > "[Content_Types] xml, the byte beween ] and x is hex 2E. Can anybody > explain why LO can't read this file? > Help is much appreciated. > Joep > > I suspect the problem is word art. OpenOffice and > LibreOffice has no equivalent > Please send the file to the email > francis.f.dollarh...@gmail.com. > I will look at it in LibreOffice 64 Mint Linux, Openoffice, MS Office > 2007
This might be a long shot, but I recently ran into a similar situation. It turned out the user had sent it with windows Live Mail. When I tried out Live Mail, it was all completely readable. Guess which mail client I'll never use? HTH, Twayne` -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
