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 Post subject: MS Word 2007 issue
PostPosted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:09 pm 
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i'm receiving docx files over gmail from someone, we both have ms word 2007. when i open the word files, they have all sorts of symbols and letters that aren't supposed to be there. i've tried conversions, but nothing seems to get rid of them. does anyone know what i can do to receive these files cleanly, without the unwanted text?


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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 4:09 am 
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If your friend isn't having issues, ask them to open & re-save the files as DOC instead of DOCX and resend them. Also, perhaps there are oddball fonts used in the documents that you don't have installed?


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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:45 pm 
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i think the issue is the original files were created in wordperfect, then converted to word files. /:


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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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Spike wrote:
i think the issue is the original files were created in wordperfect, then converted to word files. /:

That'd do it.

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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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what is wordperfect

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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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A cross between word and notepad.

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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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yeah, i had to go in and take out all the symbols manually. after going through two documents, i realized that the symbols were replacing commas and apostrophes and denoting bold text, so yeah, i had to go back and redo it. still, now knowing that, it shouldn't be too much of a hindrance forging ahead.


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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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This thread was a resounding success. Good work, team.

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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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it was totally the opposite of that, bro. you okay?


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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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Spike wrote:
it was totally the opposite of that, bro. you okay?


The problem was solved in the most efficient way possible and you grew closer to your board brothers. What more could you want out of a thread?

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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
Spike wrote:
it was totally the opposite of that, bro. you okay?


The problem was solved in the most efficient way possible and you grew closer to your board brothers. What more could you want out of a thread?

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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
PostPosted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:42 am 
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It's not our fault we didn't identify the solution for old Spike here, as he misidentified the problem. It wasn't an ms word 2007 issue, it was a wordpad issue.

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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
It's not our fault we didn't identify the solution for old Spike here, as he misidentified the problem. It wasn't an ms word 2007 issue, it was a wordpad issue.

i disagree. ms word 2007 should be way more suave than it is.


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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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Spike wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
It's not our fault we didn't identify the solution for old Spike here, as he misidentified the problem. It wasn't an ms word 2007 issue, it was a wordpad issue.

i disagree. ms word 2007 should be way more suave than it is.

You should just get OpenOffice.

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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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cutuphalfdead wrote:
Spike wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
It's not our fault we didn't identify the solution for old Spike here, as he misidentified the problem. It wasn't an ms word 2007 issue, it was a wordpad issue.

i disagree. ms word 2007 should be way more suave than it is.

You should just get OpenOffice.

go on...


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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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Spike wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
Spike wrote:
cutuphalfdead wrote:
It's not our fault we didn't identify the solution for old Spike here, as he misidentified the problem. It wasn't an ms word 2007 issue, it was a wordpad issue.

i disagree. ms word 2007 should be way more suave than it is.

You should just get OpenOffice.

go on...

Actually, you want to check out LibreOffice. It's a fork of OpenOffice that has eclipsed it in features and stability. It's the new go-to free alternative to MS Office.


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 Post subject: Re: MS Word 2007 issue
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I've never heard of that one, but I've been using OpenOffice since it came out and have no complaints.

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