Excel / Word

[Raymond RUSSELL]

Hello all

I use Windows-2000 and Office-2000
I work as a translator German to English.

I received an EXCEL file,
which I then saved as TXT and then as DOC,
translated this, and then sent it on to the customer.

The customer informs me that the DOC file
cannot be opened without the EXCEL file.
Is my DOC still somehow dependent on the EXCEL original ?
How can one sever this connection ?

Best regards and thanks from Ray

 

[Jerry W. Lewis]

Something does not add up here.

How about a more precise description of how you created the .doc file?
Excel does not have an option to save in word format. If you had simply
saved an Excel file as name.DOC, then Excel would have appended .XLS to
make it name.DOC.XLS. If you had gone through through a .txt file to
make the .doc file, then all connection to Excel would have been lost.

Jerry

 

[Raymond RUSSELL]

Hello Jerry

In MS-Excel XLS file saved as TXT file
Then in MS-Word TXT file saved as DOC file

Yes - that's what I thought !

Thanks anyway, from Ray

 

[Dave Peterson]

And if you open that .TXT file in Notepad, it looks just like plain old text?

 

[Raymond RUSSELL]

Hello Jerry, Dave, et al

It's difficult to say exactly what is happening
because I myself have no problem with any of the files,
XLS, TXT, or DOC.
It's my customer who can't open the DOC.
On trying to open the DOC he now gets a message
saying that a JPG is missing; this gets stranger and stranger.

I suggested he open the file in a text editor
and this worked fine.
So though none of us is any wiser,
a backdoor solution has been found.

Thanks everyone for your advice, from Ray