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How can I clean up useless formatting from alien documents?

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TextSoap. I just used this and it works great. I had a problem with some useless formatting that Microsoft Word applies. Why is Word so convoluted? Doesn’t Microsoft understand that most people are not typographers?

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Betalogue » Word 2011: More on ‘This is not a valid file name’ error message

Betalogue » Word 2011: More on ‘This is not a valid file name’ error message.  The further restrictions on filenames is surprising.  I wonder why they made this choice?  The bottom line here is that you should avoid any special characters other than A-Z,1-9 when dealing with Microsoft Products.

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Microsoft Word cannot be opened because of a problem.

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Turns out there are two solutions.

  1. Update the Service Pack 1 & 2 and the 12.2.5 update
  2. Make sure that Microsoft Word is inside the Microsoft Folder.  Use spotlight to find its current location and drag it into the Microsoft folder in the Applications folder.

via Apple – Support – Discussions – Microsoft Word problem! HELP! ….

 

 

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