[Papyrus-L] Papyrus under Partition Magic/Commander etc?

[Raisa Deber]

At 10:17 AM 11/6/2003 +0800, you wrote:

>Discussion regards Papyrus and XP <snipped>
>
>>Now, has anyone figured out what the heck Word has done to its file 
>>format to foul up Papyrus.  A few of my students have new machines, which 
>>comes with the new version of Word.  Even a one line test file, once 
>>processed by text extract, comes out as gibberish.
>
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>Just out of interest, has anyone on this list tried using OpenOffice or 
>StarOffice instead or in addition, saving their files as Word 97 
>format?   I find OO will peacefully co-exist with (an earlier version of) 
>MS Office and I often use OO to rectify Word's and other Office prog's 
>corruptions.  Just yesterday a colleague sent an Excel spreadsheet that 
>she'd created and then it started crashing her Excel.   Ran it through OO, 
>saved as Excel format... bingo, problem solved.   Go figure.

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately, the issue is files being sent to 
me by collaborators (often with tables or graphs) so I can't really tell 
them what systems to use.  If I can, I open them in WordPerfect and use 
reveal codes to get rid of some of the stranger glitches, but it can't 
always read some of these new Word formats either.  So I guess I'm asking 
how to ask my collaborators to save files so that they are useable by 
Papyrus.  Which the new RTF isn't - they've done something strange to it as 
well.

But thanks anyhow.
Raisa


>There was a rumour that latest Office products used an XML file format but 
>knowing Mr Gates' people, it is probably an "extended" XML set.  OO (and 
>SO) natively save their files in zipped XML or so I believe.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Denis (who avoids anything higher than Win NT4 like the plague)
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Raisa B. Deber, PhD
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University of Toronto
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