[KLUG Members] ole2

[Andrew Thompson]

On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 14:06 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 06:50 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > Someone sent us a newsletter attachment which has a .pub extension and
> > has an indicated file type in Nautilus as "OLE2 compound document
> > storage." 
> > 
> > OpenOffice.org doesn't seem to know what to do with it. Does anyone know
> > what this is and how I would open it?  (It's from a safe source.)
> > 
> > EB
> I forwarded the message to my Windows partition; Word wouldn't open it
> either. I'll have them send me a hard copy. It's a one-time shot. Thanks
> for the inputs.

Actually, you should ask them whether they could save it to another
format. It might be able to save Word documents itself, or, being a
desktop publish package, if the version is recent enough, it might save
to HTML (web page). Either of those should come up in OpenOffice easily.

Also, maybe give them a gentle warning about sharing documents in
obscure file formats. ;)

-- 
Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
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