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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 . . .
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 . . .
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