[access-uk] Re: TNAUK Word documents on the Mac
- From: Dean Wilcox <wilcoxdean@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:18:13 -0700
When I used Windows I'm sure I used to just open the file and they opened in
Word, I changed the extension to TXT and all is well now! I might give the
HTML a go as it would be great to skip to each section heading by heading.
On 29 Mar 2010, at 06:03, Jackie Cairns wrote:
> Hi Dean
>
> This is because TNAUK still live in the dark ages with their file structure.
> They are txt files, but put doc extensions on them, which tries to fool the
> PC into thinking they are something else. Heads banging against brick walls
> come to mind with this one! (smile).
>
>
> Jackie Cairns
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> -----Original Message-----
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> Dean Wilcox
> Sent: 28 March 2010 06:24
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> Subject: [access-uk] TNAUK Word documents on the Mac
>
> Hi,
> I was going to try a Mac list for this problem but TNAUK is UK based so I'll
> give it a go here first.
>
> I switched to a Mac about 3 months ago but have only just tried to use the
> TNAUK service. I was trying to use a Word document publication but Pages, my
> word processor of choice and part of Apple's iWork package said cthere was an
> import error and dwouldn't open the file. It is showing as a Word 97/2000
> document, I haven't had any problems like this before with documents. I
> tried three publications before giving up for now, has anyone else come
> across this?
>
> Thanks for any ideas
>
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