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191204	2003-11-12 09:29:00	Beetle beetle beetle. Copy all your documents to a folder somewhere and consider them a back up,now ignore them. Then open one of your original documents in works,save it as an rtf(complety ignoring whatever tales of disaster works may tell you(because you have them nacked up elsewhere if your not happy with the results) Once you have saved it as an rtf file,open it with Openofiice. Now,look at your document.....If it has been changed beyond acceptable limits give up on the openoffice experiment and use what your comfertable with. If it looks fine,then do the same to your other documents still with a cool carm manner because if anything does go wrong...you still have the back up copy of everything. Now,Every single user here uses the software they are comfertable with,they may have tried other products which do they same thing but they still settle on the one that agrees with them the most. They may even be using products that are considered a poor alternative or something not regarded as the best in the feild but if it suits them better then they will continue using it to the fullest enjoyment. Moral of this story...Use what works best for you. This was Brought to you by Metla,the number 42 and the letter P.	metla (154)
191205	2003-11-12 09:39:00	well if i have to pay travel im stuffed.... as i live in Wanganui....:D yeah and no offence.... green? LOL always thought beetles were black myself, but no probs, :D i dont have major difficultys with it now just i was home alone trying to do all things at once and concentration level was not good, but life has settled a little and i have given up on it for tonight....so tomorow will do. and as a not quite so noob to another thank you anyway nice to know my posts can have a favourable aspect on them even though it seems the outcome is bad? LOL green still gets me..... i find i cant do the ask help thing the same due to busy life style, so is awkard to get together with others, but my friend Metla has had a few shoved his way recently, and so has susan b to, she helps me get out of lots of pc scrapes...:D and as pf1 is family we all help each other lots, and beetle is well known on pf1, especially for the amount of scrapes and problems i have had, and all help is good really, and i dont mind being told i need help, i always need help in one form or another, i will be always indebted to the ongoing and persistent help i get from the pf1 members and regulars. and dana.c welcome to pf1, hope your time here is long and knowledge gaining. beetle	beetle (243)
191206	2003-11-12 09:41:00	man i took so long to write my last post i missed your post metla..... LOL thanxs bud. ok im gonna save it and print it to use as dummy run????? LOL just kidding. thanxs heaps..... b	beetle (243)
191207	2003-11-12 09:48:00	Hi Beetle my first recomendation is go have a cup of coffee. once you are relaxed do what melta says.	beama (111)
191208	2003-11-12 10:05:00	and by looking at the amount of coffee cups i have on my desk it seems that i havent had enough then..... :D but just as a side note, i um got the printer to work after a few er shots at it..... maybe something to do with the ink then though, and also when at warehouse today, i get to checkout and got items scanned, went to pay by check (business things) and the lady typed a few things and then her screen went blank, and it wouldnt work (note only one in whole shop to go down) so i musta stood to close huh? my electrifying personality..... killed the machine so i had to hold up the line of people (heaps ) and then write out the check by hand , id and the lot checking prices etc..... took ages, poor lady behind me .....said sorry though (i did) so beetle strikes again.... stuffed someone else's puter for once.....so maybe not a good idea for beetle to visit anyone anytime soon as i may kill your puter.... :p :D beetle	beetle (243)
191209	2003-11-12 10:28:00	Metla ? panic now? what does the word fatal execution mean? :D beetle	beetle (243)
191210	2003-11-12 10:44:00	> Metla ? > > panic now? > what does the word fatal execution mean? > > > :D > > beetle fatal execution ? . . . . . OMG! Means it didnt work,Exactly what content did you get this Fatal execution?when u tried to save as rtf or when you tried to open it in Openoffice? I would presume you have some formatting on the document that OpenOffice can't handle . Try saving the file as a . doc from within works(if you can) then open it with Openoffice . But you may just be out of luck .	metla (154)
191211	2003-11-12 10:49:00	tis ok metla...... lolololol something else entirely.... :D breath.....breath.....breath..... :p still havent got that other thing sussed.... but i have multiple um docs but they have all ended up in same file????? so dont know which is which now..... man i hate this... beetle	beetle (243)
191212	2003-11-12 11:05:00	change of tactic here put the ones in my documents into own folder, but when open works theres multiples of the files and they all look same, tempted to just flag it and start afresh, or print them or something . . . . . brain is logging off about now . . . :p been fiddling around in (not really just looking) OO but am not sure it is me, as has lots of things i dont need, so may just type up some stuff and see how it goes from there and what they print like . . . . i have some files saved as rtf or whatever it is (now im not remembering . . . ) and they seem to open in OO but am so muddled now as to how i got them there . . . . . this is saved into different folder . . . but they are the main ones so its not so bad . . . tomorow is looking so much better than now (oh it is tomorow . . . . . ) oh dear sleep time i think . . thanxs M and relax it was nothing to worry about . . . . . honest . . . . Fatal Exception happen lots dont they? :p :D beetle	beetle (243)
191213	2003-11-12 21:32:00	> change of tactic here put the ones in my documents into own folder, but > when open works theres multiples of the files and they all look same, Have a look at the extensions of the files. You may find some have *.doc or *.rtf or *.wps extensions which will indicate which program they "belong" to.	tommy (2826)
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