I've finally managed to open the elusive DOCx files. After spending far too many hours on trying all sorts of ways to open the documents, I finally downloaded File Format Converters.
It won't work with Internet Explorer, but it does work with Firefox. Now, I don't know if that's because of the UNI server, or what.
Anyway, I can finally open everyone's docs, which is good news. I didn't want to have to keep asking people to send me the old word doc files, or paste into the body of an e mail, which one kind student did for me.
I didn't want to have to go to the library either, not when I have my own pc and printer set up here in my flat. It really annoyed me, the thought of having to go to the library. I mean, I work three full days each week, too, so it's not as though I have all the time in the world.
Computer related stuff really does my head in sometimes, especially when I can't get things to work. But hey, I can now relax in the knowledge that I CAN OPEN ANY DOCUMENTS I LIKE!!!
Sounds like you're getting sorted in your new chapter of life Antonia. All the best. Must be exhilarating and tiring at the same time what with working 3 days.
ReplyDeleteThanks, L'Aussie. Yes, it's both of those things. And I now have an awful sore throat, and I'm aching all over. Hmmm, maybe I caught something in the lecture theatre. So many students coughing...
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