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Word files (.doc) were replete with macro viruses back in the 90's. Pretty common sight that I recall....we ran into that a lot at the company I was at in Greensboro. Thankfully our mainframe was an AS/400 and only workstations got kludged-up.<BR>
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Can you save the document as a .txt and then back to .doc w/o error? If the file was created by her on a Mac it is not so likely to be virus (yes) but if it was created somewhere else? Dunno. <BR>
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At XM we had issues with header data created by Protools LE on Mac messing with audio files put into the main system. Header data was not compatible with Dalet and thus failed the files (even though the file type was supported). <BR>
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Happy Hunting! ----R<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
<B>From</B>: Sean Kilpatrick <<A HREF="mailto:Sean%20Kilpatrick%20%3ckilpatms@speakeasy.net%3e">kilpatms@speakeasy.net</A>><BR>
<B>Reply-to</B>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale@ale.org><BR>
<B>To</B>: <A HREF="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</A><BR>
<B>Subject</B>: Re: [ale] this week's WTF<BR>
<B>Date</B>: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:03:43 -0500<BR>
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Don't think it is a virus problem. I can save other .doc files as .odt
files with no problem. It is as if this particular file has some sort of
meta data that is screwing up the works. Cups can't process it for the
printer and I can't change the file format to .odt, or pdf, or any other
Micro$oft format.
I have no clue how to read the meta data on Word files. It is possible that
my wife's Mac has become infected, but that seems unlikely, unless she
contracted the bug through Emory. Then again I haven't heard of any virii
that just screw around with Word files.
I was able, finally, to Save As an html document and then open and save
that as an .odt file.
But it would be nice to know how to isolate the actual problem.
Sean
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