At 07:49 PM 8/29/2001 -0400, you wrote:

On Wednesday 29 August 2001 19:15, JW wrote:

| Can anyone give me some pointers here? | | has anyone been able to use the MS Word import? How?

what has worked here -- perfectly, i might add -- is simply open existing file,

But I think I wasn't clear enough. My problem is that I cannot "open existing file" in the first place, because 1. It doens't show up in the File > Open > pick-a-file dialog box, and 2. Even if I give it the file name by hand, it thinks it can't find an import filter: " koffice (lib kofficecore): KoDocument::openFile for /work/jw/Mad_Cow.doc koffice (lib kofficecore): KoFilterEntry::query( 'application/x-kword' in Export and 'application/x-doc' in Import) kio (KTrader): KServiceTypeProfile::offers( KOfficeFilter, ) kio (KTrader): No profile, using KServiceType::offers, result: 28 offers koffice (lib kofficecore): Query returned 0 offers koffice (lib kofficecore): KoDocument::openFile - importedFile kparts: 0x80c4e48 emitting activePartChanged (nil) kparts: Part::~Part 0x80ae610 " Or in the case of excel imports: 3. koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Found no KOffice part able to handle application/msexcel! So where do I "get" a "KOffice part able to handle application/msexcel!" ? One would think it was included in the base rpms?

go to the place where the existing file is, click on it, and happy days. i've saved winword .dot files as kword templates, even, and they work.

what we do not yet have, sad to say (though it's being worked on, vigorously), is *export* filters. meaning that you can write to a winword template, in a winword file you've imported, but you can't save it back to winword format. -- dep

one day, you'll wish it was now. your wish has been granted. don't waste it.

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