OT: unable to read CC School District .doc file

[John Ingersoll]

This is somewhat off topic, but there's a .doc file on the Clarke County school district site which I'm unable to read in Open Office. The link:
http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/webpages/sthompson/files/2010%20Summer%20Reading.doc

It may be a Word 2007 format. Not sure. The file command shows "Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract".

I'm using Open Office 3.1.1 on OpenSuSE 11.2.

On this page:
http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/webpages/sthompson/summerreads.cfm

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[Charles James]

I read in the paper this weekend that Microsoft has something similar
to Google docs. You may need a hotmail account.

http://workspace.officelive.com/en-us/

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[David Millians]

On 6/13/2010 7:35 PM, John Ingersoll wrote:
> This is somewhat off topic, but there's a .doc file on the Clarke
> County school district site which I'm unable to read in Open Office.
> The link:
> http://www.clarke.k12.ga.us/webpages/sthompson/files/2010%20Summer%20Reading.doc
>
> It may be a Word 2007 format. Not sure. The file command shows "Zip
> archive data, at least v2.0 to extract".

Curious. If it ends in doc, it should be the old BLOB format.
The 2k7 format is xml of some form, zipped. It usually ends in docx.
Rename it to docx and see if it works; otherwise, I can save it in
regular doc format for you.

[Brian Pitts]

So it does open in Microsoft Office? I'm just wondering if the file is
corrupt. Even if it's docx, OO.o should be able to open it.

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[David Millians]

It opens as is with O2k7. It complains a bit, but it does open.
If you rename it with a docx, it opens with no complaints.
If you look at it with something like 7zip, it shows that the xml file
that you expect in a docx.

Quacks, walks, swims: it's a duck of the docx format. Give it that
extension and you should be good if your oo can open it.

[Brian Pitts]

On 06/14/2010 11:22 AM, David Millians wrote:
>> So it does open in Microsoft Office? I'm just wondering if the file is
>> corrupt. Even if it's docx, OO.o should be able to open it.
>>
>
> It opens as is with O2k7. It complains a bit, but it does open.
> If you rename it with a docx, it opens with no complaints.
> If you look at it with something like 7zip, it shows that the xml file
> that you expect in a docx.
>
> Quacks, walks, swims: it's a duck of the docx format. Give it that
> extension and you should be good if your oo can open it.

Thanks for testing it David! Changing the extension to docx allowed me
to open it in OpenOffice.Org 3.2.