KWord and Word XP documents

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Le Vendredi 30 Août 2002 22:39, Brad Potts a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> I'm just trying to open a simple Microsoft Word file (created from Office 
XP) 
It is recommanded to save Office XP created document in Word97 format for 
backward compatibility even if you're not planning to use it later on a 
linux. You did that right? :)

> that I would like to edit in KWord.  When I click file---->open in KWord and 
> then navagate to where my file is, it won't even show it as a supported 
> filetype but it says "microsoft word" underneith filters so I'm wondering 
why 
> it's not working.  I'm using KOffice 1.1.1
For the status of word97 filter :
http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/koffice/filters/olefilters/winword97/status.html?content-type=text/html#import

> 
> This is the first time I've ever used KWord.  Is this something that's not 
> supported under KWord yet, or am I just missing something??
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> D.J.
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