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On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 01:48:11PM +0000, Tony Sumner wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008, stinga was like: > > > More sweeping generalisations... > > Great stuff, stinga. > > More on FLOSS for females ... This morning I was helping Pat to write > a document in OOo. I showed her how to change to B6 (format -> page -> > page -> B6) then she typed the stuff and I showed her how to save it > (file -> save as) and just to make sure I clicked on open to recover > it and guess what I couldn't get it back. I tried everything and all I > got was 'Untitled' and a blank page. The file is there in the > directory so why can't I open it? I can save and recover my documents > but not hers. When g-daughter says 'it's much easier in MS Office' I > am inclined to agree. Ok I could export the doc in PDF and save it > that way but is this the way to persuade Pat that FLOSS is the way to > go? > > Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells > [aka Tony] > No idea about the more complicated things but try the silly things (all of which I have suffered) - How was it saved ie was it saved as an open office file called test.doc? - What directory was it saved in? (try the command line and ls the directory) If it was saved as a doc file then try opening it with eg antiword, or "$oowriter test.doc", You might want to rename the file first - oOo has a reopened last file feature in the File directory Good luck -- Henry Thu Jan 17 14:36:50 GMT 2008
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