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  docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-21 15:56 +0000
    Re: docx files on a Mac Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-21 09:28 -0700
      Re: docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-22 21:04 +0000
        Re: docx files on a Mac ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-01-22 22:38 +0100
        Re: docx files on a Mac Suze <replytome@thenewsgroup.com> - 2014-01-26 19:02 -0600
          Re: docx files on a Mac erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-01-26 19:29 -0600
          Re: docx files on a Mac John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-27 07:57 -0800
            Re: docx files on a Mac android <here@there.was> - 2014-02-05 19:53 +0100
        Re: docx files on a Mac android <here@there.was> - 2014-02-05 19:53 +0100
    Re: docx files on a Mac Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-01-21 17:05 +0000
    Re: docx files on a Mac gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-21 09:38 -0800
      Re: docx files on a Mac gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-21 09:39 -0800
        Re: docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-22 21:04 +0000
    Re: docx files on a Mac Kit <kityzyme@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-22 11:59 +0000
      Re: docx files on a Mac PhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net> - 2014-01-22 17:44 -0500
        Re: docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-23 14:50 +0000
          Re: docx files on a Mac Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-01-23 17:16 +0000
            Re: docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-24 14:01 +0000
              Re: docx files on a Mac Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-01-24 16:49 +0000
      Re: docx files on a Mac Richard H <Richard.H@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-05 17:33 +0000
    Re: docx files on a Mac John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2014-01-24 04:05 +0000
      Re: docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-24 14:31 +0000

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On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:56:11 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
<drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:

>How do you open one of these on a Mac without destroying the formatting?  I
>can open it with Open Office, Bean, and if I remember correctly, even
>Pages, but the format is destroyed.
>
>The original is a paper with endnotes I'm supposed to submit as Word. I can
>save as Word, though I have to mail it as a .pdf, but they want me to make
>a couple corrections in the docx they sent me and the side note stuff ends
>up in places where it haa no discernible connection to the text. Cryptic
>notes don't help. 
>
>Even if I could make sense of it and make the corrections, the endnotes
>would still be turned into page notes, which is the wrong format.

 MSWord would be best. LibreOffice is pretty good at keeping stuff
consistent. 
 There are MessyOffice suites for Mac. If you only need them for a
while, download a trial copy but DOWNLOAD IT FROM MICROSOFT.COM never
from ebay or anywhere else. Trial copies generally work *once* per box
for about sixty days then they expire and stop working properly. Even
after that they might work *enough* for what you need. They don't curl
up and die, they just lose functions.
 Microsoft are quite happy for you to continue to use crippled
MessyOffice copies as they suspect most who do will eventually get
tired of exceedingly polite "this function has expired please buy a
fucking licence, you cheapskate" messages. I know I did. 
 Another route, and I know I'm plugging this a lot, tonight, is to
download CrossOver or some other WINE and "borrow" a fully licensed
copy of MessyWord from a PC user. Fully licensed copies generally
allow you to run them on three PC's or so. 
 Again, doing that, you need to download a trial copy then use your
pal's product key to activate it. 
                                       J.    

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#20664

John <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:56:11 +0000 (UTC), Erilar
> <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
> 
>> How do you open one of these on a Mac without destroying the formatting?  I
>> can open it with Open Office, Bean, and if I remember correctly, even
>> Pages, but the format is destroyed.
>> 
>> The original is a paper with endnotes I'm supposed to submit as Word. I can
>> save as Word, though I have to mail it as a .pdf, but they want me to make
>> a couple corrections in the docx they sent me and the side note stuff ends
>> up in places where it haa no discernible connection to the text. Cryptic
>> notes don't help. 
>> 
>> Even if I could make sense of it and make the corrections, the endnotes
>> would still be turned into page notes, which is the wrong format.
> 
>  MSWord would be best. LibreOffice is pretty good at keeping stuff
> consistent. 
>  There are MessyOffice suites for Mac. If you only need them for a
> while, download a trial copy but DOWNLOAD IT FROM MICROSOFT.COM never
> from ebay or anywhere else. Trial copies generally work *once* per box
> for about sixty days then they expire and stop working properly. Even
> after that they might work *enough* for what you need. They don't curl
> up and die, they just lose functions.
>  Microsoft are quite happy for you to continue to use crippled
> MessyOffice copies as they suspect most who do will eventually get
> tired of exceedingly polite "this function has expired please buy a
> fucking licence, you cheapskate" messages. I know I did. 
>  Another route, and I know I'm plugging this a lot, tonight, is to
> download CrossOver or some other WINE and "borrow" a fully licensed
> copy of MessyWord from a PC user. Fully licensed copies generally
> allow you to run them on three PC's or so. 
>  Again, doing that, you need to download a trial copy then use your
> pal's product key to activate it. 
>                                        J.
That's an interesting suggestion. My daughter has it MS, but she also has
more than one computer already. . .

I'm back in limbo again at the moment, so I'm waiting to hear more.  It's a
major bummer, because I was told almost a year ago that it was going to be
published, and even that the special orthography in one appendix could be
done. I even turned in a permission to publish form of some kind.  Then I
heard nothing for almost a year.  OK, publishing stuff can be slow, but
really!  Recently I wrote and asked what was up and was tol it had been
left out of the collection because of that appendix and new problems.  The
problem appendix isn't vital; it's scholarly show off more than essential
to the argument. I'd never have written this version wothout urging and
editing along the way from the person who NOW tells me there are
previously-unmentioned hangups

-- 
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

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