Re: Mac to Win PC file question

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Hi Ray,

Re John's comments--

Assuming she sent you a Word file, and that the QuickTime movie is just
extraneous information (though sounds like quite a friend!), chances are
that she used a font you don't have, possibly to get letters beyond the
usual US English.

Your version of Word is *extremely* important here--great strides were made
between Word X and Word 2004.

Also, did you simply double-click the file, or did you use File | Open to
open it? If File | Open, please make sure Enable in that dialog is *not* set
to Recover Text From Any File.

On 3/21/06 11:03 PM, "scsisys" wrote:

Recently had a friend send me a Word file of some lyrics to a song
she had written and used in a QuickTime movie she made.

When I opened the file, it displays a white box, then a "letter", then
a white box, "letter", etc, along with other "hieroglyphics". Makes
for tough reading.

What can I do on my end to have it appear in a normal text mode ?

thanks
ray






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