Never mind the Nexus panic

[ritaxis]

I don't know why it wouldn't before, but now kingsoft opens the doc files again, and most specifically it opens the files that I have downloaded from dropbox on to the tablet, which means I can work on the plane. And I can edit them, and my snazzy little usb keyboard works fine too.

I have a formatting issue, which is slightly annoying and means I'll have to do another proofing pass later, but I thought I'd have to do that anyway. I have indented paragraphs in my original, but kingsoft apparently can only do carriage return/line feed paragraphs, and while I guess either is okay in these days, having both in one mauscript is just sloppy. But I can do a perfecty fine search and replace in word perfect to make that consistent later.

Oh yes, and another good thing is that these readable doc files were created in word perfect: I had gotten the impression that my rather old version of word perfect only did primitive old versions of doc files and indeed I had updated open office to deal with them, but these are MS Word 97/2000/2002 for windows doc files, which is I believe the last true iteration before the odious docx.

Everybody has their preferences, and open office is refreshingly clean and simple, notably lacking the offensive ribbon, but word perfect has reveal codes. It is so nice to know I will be able to use reveal codes even on the doc files.

Thank you everybody who gave me suggestions. I'm thinking about them now, though I have solved the proximal problem.

I never slved the question of what I had been doing wrong, but at least the problem was solved, so . . .

Comments

[ellarien]

Oh, good! Glad it's working for you. Was a restart involved, by any chance?

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I dn't know. I restarted the tablet several times because apparently I can't truly close any files any ther way? That has to be wrong, right? But when I accidentally opened the spreadsheet of Android Office, I couldn't get into any other Android Office files until I restarted the tablet: and then again when I wanted to try differen fies with Android Open Office, though even restarting the tablet didn't actually seem to close the incorrectly opened file in one instance (it did another time): and a couple of other events I don't recall. And in Kingsoft, apparenty the way to get to the next file is to go back to the downoaded files folder and open it from there, rather than closing and opening files from within kingsoft?

Is this right? Because it fees so wrong.

anyway, I don't know why it works now and I just hope it continues to work while I am flying over the atlantic.

[ellarien]

I don't have any trouble opening files from within Kingsoft, though I did have to prod the screen a few times to get the keyboard up. I don't know about the other things, but it does make me wonder if there was some kind of conflict going on. I did find with my phone that Docs2Go wouldn't open files that had been edited in Kingsoft, and vice versa.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

I'm glad things are working for you now. May they continue to do so henceforward!