Re: text encoding, help please...

magnumhan shared this with us in microsoft.public.word.docmanagement:

> hi, i have read these discusion grups on text encoding and none seem
> to help....heres the prob. : i download/create/copy/ ect. a doc. to
> word, when i go to open it it ask for "fiel conversion" then gives me
> radial buttons for the three choices then a list of different types
> to encode to, it doesnt matter what i use the darn thing just looks
> like the "plain old english" i need to read/edit it. i have went to
> the general tab and clicked "conferm conversion at open" and that
> doesn't work, also there is no "english" selections in the "choose
> your own conversion" box, just europen and other languages....tghis
> is fustration and i don't think my docs are corrupt as i have
> downloaded several "new" type for other sites and in pdf and nothing
> works, i'm gonna get the gun and shoot this thing very soon and get
> me a type writter if i can't get it to work....help me please, i'm
> not that smart, desperate, not smart....
>
> thhaks,
> the bill

Hello Mr. Bill, (or can I just call you The?)

Unfortunately I didn't understand a single word of what you wrote. That
is probably because English is my third language, not because your
message lacks interpunction and other structural elements.

Anyway, could you please please PLEASE give the ***EXACT*** messages
Word gives you? Please be as descriptive as possible.
And if talking about downloadable documents: could you please give the
url if possible?

If you think your documents might be corrupt, you can always try to
open them with OpenOffice. OpenOffice is a Free (as in Free Speech)
Office suite, with a very high degree of comb^Hpatibility with
Microsoft Office. You can download it for free (as in free beer) from
http://openoffice.org. In my experience (confirmed by others) it is
often possible to open a corrupted document with OpenWriter when
Microsoft Word has already given up.
In short:
* Open in OpenWriter
* Clean up if needed
* Save as a Word file (with a different filename)
* Open in MS Word

Good luck!

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