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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Puzzling .doc file
From:       Olav Pettershagen <olav.pettershagen () trysil ! online ! no>
Date:       2002-10-10 9:56:22
Message-ID: 200210101156.22508.olav.pettershagen () trysil ! online ! no
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Hello,

I received a really short and simple (no heavy formatting) doc file for 
translation the other day. 

The first thing I noticed was that my Linux system did not recognise it as a 
word file because it was given the icon for unknown file types. The next 
thing was that OOO could not open the file, obviously did not recognise it as 
a known format.

So I imported the file into a translation tool (which had no problems with 
it), translated and exported.

The translated file is given the usual icon for MS Word files by Linux and OOO 
opens it without a hitch.

Now I have two identical files (except for the language) with identical file 
names. OOO (and Linux) recognises one of them as MS Word but not the other. I 
have looked for format differences within the files and for meta information. 
However everything is identical as far as I can see. Still there must be some 
lacking "meta information" in the first file that prevents OOO (and Linux?) 
from recognizing the format.

Anybody with similar experiences?


Olav

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