[GRLUG] unable to open .doc file

[Mark Farver]

On Feb 12, 2013 5:45 PM, "Eric Beversluis" <ebever at researchintegration.org>
wrote:
>
> My wife sent me a .doc file from her Mac Word. It won't open in LO
> (3.5.7.2) on my Fedora 15

I think I've seen this before.  Mac saves it with a .doc extension but it
is really a docx file.  Try renaming it and see if it will open in LO.  LO
uses the filename to figure out what kind of input filter to use.. word is
more clever about examining the file.
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