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General => Technical Help => Topic started by: Finley 1 on Tuesday 07 April 20 13:19 BST (UK)
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I have just had to get a.n.other laptop as my poor old win 7's tired out.. . :( so sad --
Now this is a Win 8 and it is taking me ages to get used to it.. (I actually do not like it now.. after hating it and leaving it in a cupboard for 2 yrs ---oh dear )
Anyhow.. I attempted to download a doc from Ancestry... that I had put on.. in one of the stories of my people... etc... and all it does is garble it..
I uploaded my extremely old version of Microsoft office and MY Windows 98 :) :) oh dear.. but nothing will read the doc.. the other docs are fine (havent tried them all as yet ) but this one is messed up.. and I am fed up.. it shows it as a docx file and just wont open with word.
However Microsoft is pushing for me to buy the newest version.. and I dont want to (semi skint) so I downloaded Free version of something called open office.. and that wont open it either.. HELP please...
xin
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Xin,
You will need Word from 2007 or later to read a docx file.
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Hi Xin
here's what it says about Docx and Open Office
https://itstillworks.com/open-docx-openoffice-5894681.html
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oooo hhh dear me.. :) will get to it asap
xin
I hate Change sorry
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open a new document in OpenOffice Writed
Go Open
you get Dialogue Box
at bottom is says All Files (*.*) and beside that is a Chevron v
Click on Chevron and another box jumps up
Select the docx one!! Then whatever File you are trying to Open!
Make one tiny change on Doc (press spacebar or put a full stop in) then go Save As and save it as an odt or .doc or whatever you want.
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Then apologize to OpenOffice! ;D ;D 8)
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You got a Windows 8 laptop?
Not exactly the best choice so no wonder you do not like it.
Win 8 came out in 2012 and was replaced by Windows 10 in 2015.
To say Windows 8 is a dog is a gross disservice to man’s best friend.
If the laptop is capable of being upgraded to Windows 10 then I would certainly suggest that you try to update it.
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Open a new document in OpenOffice Writer
Go File > Open
you get Dialogue Box
at bottom is says All Files (*.*) and beside that is a Chevron v
Click on Chevron and another box jumps up
Select the docx one!! Then whatever File you are trying to Open!
Make one tiny change on Doc (press spacebar or put a full stop in) then go Save As and save it as an odt or .doc or whatever you want.
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You got a Windows 8 laptop?
Not exactly the best choice so no wonder you do not like it.
Win 8 came out in 2012 and was replaced by Windows 10 in 2015.
To say Windows 8 is a dog is a gross disservice to man’s best friend.
If the laptop is capable of being upgraded to Windows 10 then I would certainly suggest that you try to update it.
Yes considering updating asap thanks for info..
xin
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Wow Hallmark xxx
thank you I will have to wait till this evening to digest and attempt .. .but really appreciate your help x
thank you
xin
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Then apologize to OpenOffice?? ;D ;D ;D
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On opening m$ .docx files with Apache OpenOffice/Libre Office you may/will lose some
formatting. Be prepared to reformat the file as necessary.
Then SAVE the file in it's native file format, i.e .odt
Several years ago m$ were invited to join the Open Document Foundation to standardise the
office document file format between office software. To cut a long story short m$ adulterated the given source code and it became a proprietary file format (.docx/.xlsx/.pptx).
To see the differences between .odt and docx. This applies to .ods, .odp and .xlsx and .pptx.
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Differences-between-the-OpenDocument-Text-odt-format-and-the-Word-docx-format-d9d51a92-56d1-4794-8b68-5efb57aebfdc
Libre Office, Apache OpenOffice and m$ Office are NOT clones of each other and should not
be treated as such.
Jim
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WOW it worked Hallmark thank you very much.... a song by Mr Steele in Scrooge comes to mind... :) brilliant..
SO again thanks to Rootschat -- people Hallmark :) 'confusion' (attempting to comprehend :) :) no disrespect :) ) Colin (listening to advise) Gadget xxxx luvly thank you and K Garrard Yep updated :) xxx
rest time or garden time.. we are blessed with a beautiful day
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You got a Windows 8 laptop?
Not exactly the best choice so no wonder you do not like it.
Win 8 came out in 2012 and was replaced by Windows 10 in 2015.
To say Windows 8 is a dog is a gross disservice to man’s best friend.
What exactly is up with it?
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If you only have an old version of MS Office, there is an official add-on to give most of the DOCX features.
"Office Compatibility Pack" is what you need. It ought to be still available from the Microsoft website.
It adds DOCX, XLSX etc to the Save As boxes, as well as allowing you to read the files.
There are some extras in the newer versions that the old Office programs can't do - huge spreadsheets for example - but you will get warnings if you hit any of them.
Just checked, and the SP1 version is still to be had. I don't think it needs any previous "SP0" version to be installed first.
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Got a free upload for now... of Open office :) so that will do till and or if I get back to writing 'THE' story :) :)
thanks all
xin
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WOW it worked Hallmark thank you very much.... a song by Mr Steele in Scrooge comes to mind... :) brilliant..
SO again thanks to Rootschat -- people Hallmark :) 'confusion' (attempting to comprehend :) :) no disrespect :) ) Colin (listening to advise) Gadget xxxx luvly thank you and K Garrard Yep updated :) xxx
rest time or garden time.. we are blessed with a beautiful day
Glad you are sorted!!
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Forgot to say....if you have others and select the Option you chose to open that File, you might get asked if you always want those Files opened using that option, click Yes!
Saves you going to Chevron, then Selecting each time!
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And save as much as possible in RichText
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You got a Windows 8 laptop?
Not exactly the best choice so no wonder you do not like it.
Win 8 came out in 2012 and was replaced by Windows 10 in 2015.
To say Windows 8 is a dog is a gross disservice to man’s best friend.
What exactly is up with it?
It was resource hungry.
It was very, very buggy.
It suffered from a lot of hacks.
The icon based interface was disliked by many millions of users.
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As for DOC files
My advice would be to save all files as DOC format for maximum future proofing, additional save versions as RTF and PDF.
Then save all the files on multiple storage devices.