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joe1956

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I have just downloaded and installed X11 1.13 and Open Office 2.04. I thought I was doing fine. I opened and edited some RTF files (originally made on 'Text Edit') in Open Office without any problems. But when I open some Microsoft (.doc) files the formattimg is seriously messed up. I first get several pages of gibberish - which I assume is some MS document Header information and formatting that isn't translatable into OO. But then in the text itself I also have several problems, such as:

1.) a dash '-' is represented by '©©';
2.) words occasionally start with 'ê' for no apparant reason, examples: êcase + êbe + êexplain instead of case or be or explain. Also note that these words do NOT always have the 'ê' so they usually appear correctly;
3.) the ' itself appears as ¿##¿, thus the word isn't appears as isn¿##¿t;
4.) and quotes " appears as (first) ?#? then ƒ#ƒ, thus "us" appears as ?#?usƒ#ƒ;

I am sure there are others but that is what stands out at first glance. Has anyone seen this? Does anyone know how to fix this? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thank you,

Joe

PS I am on an Intel OS X 10.4.8 Imac. I loaded X11 and Open Office because I do NOT want to buy Microsoft Office.
 
Thanks for taking the trouble to reply nixgeek & eric2006. I may have had a corrupted file. I have opened several other MS files (.doc) without a problem. So, I think this weekend I will experiment with different flavors of MS word docs and see if I can isolate the problem. I may be chasing shadows - the one file may be corrupt to begin with.
 
I've been using OpenOffice and NeoOffice for a while now, and sometimes OOo and NeoO has formatting issues with MS documents and spreadsheets. For the most part, the content should still be there, it just requires formatting adjustments.
 
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