Thread: Any way to edit Word docs on N800???
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neilgunton is offline neilgunton
2007-10-15 , 19:34
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Originally Posted by Moonshine View Post
Hmm.. maybe you did something differently, but I just edited a word .doc file, selected "Save" and transferred it over to my PC where Word 2007 opened the edited .doc file fine.
Yes, I think I was actually editing a .SAVED file the first time I tried this; evidently those are saved in Abiword format (I looked in the file and it explicitly mentions this).

I just tried again, using a fresh .doc file, edited it on the N800 and emailed it back to myself. Yes, this time it could open in Word, but it had been converted to RTF. You can confirm this by doing "Save as..." in Word and seeing what the current type is.

RTF is better than nothing, of course, but in my experience formatting can be a little flaky when converting between formats. It would be better if the native Word format was preserved.

/Neil
Last edited by neilgunton; 2007-10-15 at 19:47.