koffice-1.2.1-15 can't open msword doc

[Elton Woo]

On October 31, 2003 09:51 pm, sean darcy , <sean darcy 
<seandarcy at hotmail.com>> wrote:
> n kword I try to open a word file -test.doc. It doesn't show up in the open
> file dialog box - even though All Supported Files is chosen.
>
> If I type in test.doc, I get a dialog box that says:
>
> Could not import file of type application/x-msword
>
>
> I thought koffice had an msword filter. Wrong? The file open dialog box
> shows msword as a choice.
>
> Is a filter missing?

I can't answer your question WRT koffice, but kif you have abiword
or OpenOffice installed you can load msword documents with them...

HTH,

Elton ;-)

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