Re: [PLUG] word docs with open office and web sites (slightly OT)

[Randall A Sindlinger <rsindlin+plug@seas.upenn.edu>]

Hmm... You might want to try www.zamzar.com.  I've never used it myself, only heard 
of it.  Looks interesting, and it's free to try (if you don't mind the ads).

They say they support converting .odt to .doc

-Randall


On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 01:22:50PM -0800, Edmond Rodriguez wrote:
> Yet another recruiting web site will not take Open Office docs formatted as word docs. 
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> Please correct the following errors:
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> > Unable to interpret the resume.  The document is either corrupted, password protected, encrypted or unsupported.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: edmond rodriguez <erodrig_97@yahoo.com>
> > To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> > Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 3:16:07 PM
> > Subject: [PLUG] word docs with open office and web sites (slightly OT)
> > 
> > 
> > Has anyone besides me noticed that when saving a Word document from Open Office 
> > (.doc file), some web sites that upload .doc's (like job search web sites) don't 
> > like them?  Sometimes I figure this out by trial and error, since the error 
> > messages don't explain what is wrong. 
> > 
> > I am running into that from time to time, though MS Word opens a .doc file from 
> > Open Office just fine. 
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> > 

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