converters for Office

toolwiz · Post by **toolwiz** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:52 am

I've found that to get hyperlinks to import properly from Word files, you need to have the latest MS File converters installed. That's where you'll find the "Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc)" type that imports hyperlinks fine. The older one, "Word 97-2002 (*.doc)" type doesn't work properly.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/deta ... =941b3470-
3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en

or

http://tinyurl.com/ykums3

It may also be worth mentioning that Word files with headers and footers, as well as pages with images and unusual text layout selections, won't import well at all. This seems to be due to limitations of Word and how MS maps things into RTF. I'm telling users that if they can't load it into OpenOffice and other programs correctly, then my apps that use this software won't fare any better.

-David

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:43 pm

Headers and footers, if they are stored in RTF, can be imported in separate richviews. But ScaleRichView does not support headers and footers yet, they will be implemented later.