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My client deleted several documents that he created in Open Office 2.1. I undeleted and recovered them to a memory stick. However I cannot read them in either Open Office or Word 2000. If I open them, I get the message about &quot;select the encoding that makes your document readable&quot; in Word and the ASCII filter options in Open Office. Any ideas would be most welcome.<br />
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Standard circular about housing allowances

Circular18.07reHousingAllowances.doc

My client deleted several documents that he created in Open Office 2.1. I undeleted and recovered them to a memory stick. However I cannot read them in either Open Office or Word 2000. If I open them, I get the message about "select the encoding that makes your document readable" in Word and the ASCII filter options in Open Office. Any ideas would be most welcome.

Unable to open Open Office doc files in Word

My client deleted several documents that he created in Open Office 2.1. I undeleted and recovered them to a memory stick. However I cannot read them in either Open Office or Word 2000. If I open them, I get the message about &quot;select the encoding that makes your document readable&quot; in Word and the ASCII filter options in Open Office. Any ideas would be most welcome.

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