File format invalid when opening a word document
Hi there,
I have been sent a batch of Word and PDF documents, which when I try and open on my Macbook they all come up with the message 'The file format is invalid'.
I have previously been sent word and PDF files, and had no problem opening them. I have used the Help resource, and followed the instructions about dragging the file to the Pages icon etc, but the same error message comes up.
What could be wrong? I think that the version of Word is 2007.
Lucy
As far as I know, Pages was never able to open PDF files.
By default, this task is dedicated to Preview.
M…oSoft created so many file formats that I'm not really surprised by what yo describe with Word documents.
Would be a good idea to download and install the free LibreOffice from :
http://www.libreoffice.org/
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) lundi 20 février 2012
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