Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In the OE6
'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and .doc after - but
it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On 18 Sep, 20:43, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. *In the OE6
'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and .doc after - but
it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?

Sounds like it was made using an older/newer version of Word than you
have installed, or using Notepad (or similar) and they've manually
changed the extension.
Try opening it in Notepad, or ask the sender to save it as a
compatible version (Word '07 to Word '03 for example) and resend.

--

Lino expert wrote:
On 18 Sep, 20:43, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In
the OE6 'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and
.doc after - but it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and
.........................'Page Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?

Sounds like it was made using an older/newer version of Word than you
have installed, or using Notepad (or similar) and they've manually
changed the extension.
Try opening it in Notepad, or ask the sender to save it as a
compatible version (Word '07 to Word '03 for example) and resend.

I appear to have Word 97 SR 1.

Tried Notepad, just fewer little squares :-(


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On 18/09/09 21:10, The Medway Handyman wrote:

I appear to have Word 97 SR 1.

Try OpenOffice 3.1.1 then ...

http://www.openoffice.org/

Andy Burns wrote:
On 18/09/09 21:10, The Medway Handyman wrote:

I appear to have Word 97 SR 1.

Try OpenOffice 3.1.1 then ...

http://www.openoffice.org/

Thanks, but now all I get is a series of ##############



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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On 18/09/09 22:20, The Medway Handyman wrote:
Andy Burns wrote:
On 18/09/09 21:10, The Medway Handyman wrote:

I appear to have Word 97 SR 1.

Try OpenOffice 3.1.1 then ...

http://www.openoffice.org/

Thanks, but now all I get is a series of ##############

Then I'd say it is a corrupt .doc file or perhaps not even a .doc file
at all, but some other file type that's been renamed.

The Medway Handyman wrote:
Lino expert wrote:
On 18 Sep, 20:43, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In
the OE6 'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and
.doc after - but it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and
.........................'Page Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?
Sounds like it was made using an older/newer version of Word than you
have installed, or using Notepad (or similar) and they've manually
changed the extension.
Try opening it in Notepad, or ask the sender to save it as a
compatible version (Word '07 to Word '03 for example) and resend.

I appear to have Word 97 SR 1.

Tried Notepad, just fewer little squares :-(


Download Open Office and install it. It can read MOST of word 2005 stuff.

http://www.openoffice.org/

The Medway Handyman wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In the OE6
'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and .doc after - but
it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?


Maybe it is the new(ish) version of word (2007?)
I think there is some sort of free ad in you can get to allow word 2003
to open the new file format.
Don't try and open through OE - save to disc and right click 'open with'
to control what happens.
Good Luck

Bob

Bob Minchin dangling via a dongle wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In
the OE6 'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and
.doc after - but it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and
.........................'Page Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?


Maybe it is the new(ish) version of word (2007?)
I think there is some sort of free ad in you can get to allow word
2003 to open the new file format.

OK

Don't try and open through OE - save to disc and right click 'open
with' to control what happens.

I actually thought of that myself! Full of new found confidence I tried
Wordpad & Notepad - nothing I'm afraid.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In the OE6
'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and .doc after - but
it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?

Assuming you have word 2003, it could be a word 2007 doc? Although I'm
fairly sure they are .docx files.

Might be worth trying http://tinyurl.com/2007pack

If you don't have Word 2003 then http://tinyurl.com/2007viewer might be handy.

Darren

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:43:07 +0000, The Medway Handyman wrote:
All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?

Openoffice?

The Medway Handyman wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In the
OE6 'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and .doc
after - but it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?

Try downloading and installing OpenOffice 3.1.1
(http://download.openoffice.org/) It's big - so you'll need broadband. But
it's free and can open Word 2007 docs and many others, too.

--
Jeff

"Jeff Layman" wrote in message
...
The Medway Handyman wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In the
OE6 'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and .doc
after - but it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?

Try downloading and installing OpenOffice 3.1.1
(http://download.openoffice.org/) It's big - so you'll need broadband.
But it's free and can open Word 2007 docs and many others, too.

And it will convert docs to pdfs.

Bill

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
om...
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In the
OE6 'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and .doc
after - but it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?


It could be it's been corrupted, so you may not get it to open properly no
matter what you do.

If it's someone known to you ask them to check it on their system and send
it again.

An alternative might be to send it to one of the places that does free
online conversion of documents to pdfs. I have done this for MS Publisher
documents, some of which I can't open with MY version of Publisher. No help
if it's a corrupt file, but it's been known to help when people send things
in odd formats (wps anyone?)

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:43:07 GMT, The Medway Handyman wrote:

All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Little squares is how windows sometimes shows characters for a font
it has not got. Can you check with the sender what font they used and
then see if you have that installed.

I doubt it's a Word2007/.docx problem, your wouldn't even get as far
as you do if that was the case.

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Cheers
Dave.

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:43:07 GMT, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:

Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In the OE6
'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and .doc after - but
it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?

email back and ask

a) what prog it was

b) pirate a copy of it

c) if word ask them to save the file as a word 97/txt file

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In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:

Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment.



Nobody has yet suggested the obvious....


The sender should be asked to send it again in a standard format, rather
than some proprietry file. It may be no issue to the BillyGoat brigade
(although clearly it is here) but how about those who use real operating
systems?

Plain text is for email, if the "pretties" are essential, then PDF is the
answer

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http://www.illifauthouse.co.uk : http://www.ajlelectronics.co.uk

Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:
In article ,
The Medway Handyman wrote:

Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment.



Nobody has yet suggested the obvious....


The sender should be asked to send it again in a standard format, rather
than some proprietry file. It may be no issue to the BillyGoat brigade
(although clearly it is here) but how about those who use real operating
systems?

Plain text is for email, if the "pretties" are essential, then PDF is the
answer

I am afraid I have to say you are IMHO completely right.


The only excuse for sending something in word processor format, is so
that it may be subsequently edited.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:
In article ,
The Medway Handyman
wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment.



Nobody has yet suggested the obvious....


The sender should be asked to send it again in a standard format,
rather than some proprietry file. It may be no issue to the
BillyGoat brigade (although clearly it is here) but how about those
who use real operating systems?

Plain text is for email, if the "pretties" are essential, then PDF
is the answer

I am afraid I have to say you are IMHO completely right.


The only excuse for sending something in word processor format, is so
that it may be subsequently edited.

Or that you don't know of any alternatives...

Like most users.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

The Medway Handyman wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:
In article ,
The Medway Handyman
wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment.


Nobody has yet suggested the obvious....


The sender should be asked to send it again in a standard format,
rather than some proprietry file. It may be no issue to the
BillyGoat brigade (although clearly it is here) but how about those
who use real operating systems?

Plain text is for email, if the "pretties" are essential, then PDF
is the answer

I am afraid I have to say you are IMHO completely right.


The only excuse for sending something in word processor format, is so
that it may be subsequently edited.

Or that you don't know of any alternatives...

Like most users.


A simple e-mail saying 'please export that as a PDF' suffices there..

I cant off hand think of any 2D drawing or word processing package that
cant do that these days.

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
The Medway Handyman wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics) wrote:
In article ,
The Medway Handyman
wrote:
Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment.


Nobody has yet suggested the obvious....


The sender should be asked to send it again in a standard format,
rather than some proprietry file. It may be no issue to the
BillyGoat brigade (although clearly it is here) but how about those
who use real operating systems?

Plain text is for email, if the "pretties" are essential, then PDF
is the answer

I am afraid I have to say you are IMHO completely right.


The only excuse for sending something in word processor format, is
so that it may be subsequently edited.

Or that you don't know of any alternatives...

Like most users.


A simple e-mail saying 'please export that as a PDF' suffices there..

I cant off hand think of any 2D drawing or word processing package
that cant do that these days.

MS Word can't AIUI.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:43:07 GMT, The Medway Handyman wrote:

Someone known to me has sent a Word Doc as an e-mail attachment. In the OE6
'attach' bar it has the Word icon in front of the title and .doc after - but
it won't open properly.

All I get is lines of little squares and .........................'Page
Break'...........................

Any idea how to open it?

If all else fails and it's not 'sensitive', e-mail it to me and I might be
able to open it with WordPro (seems to open a few things that Word 2003 and
OO won't). Easy then to make a PDF.
--
Peter.
The head of a pin will hold more angels if
it's been flattened with an angel-grinder.