www.openoffice.org

[Hitcher]

Shouldn't files created in Openoffice be able to be open and viewed with MS Word?

[Sniper]

Yes, why?.......

[Hitcher]

My neighbours are using it. But the documents they create can't be opened by anybody else. Young James just emailed me a science project that he has spent hours working on and when I open it in Word it just contains crapola.

[mdooher]

They should...it would be nice....but they can't......well not without a plugin i tried once a while back

Not the native file format anyway

[sAsLEX]

openoffice can save in word format else nope.

[James Deuce]

He needs to save it in Word format.

Click File, Save As, and change the File type to .DOC

[Hitcher]

He needs to save it in Word format.

Click File, Save As, and change the File type to .DOC


I think he said he did that already. But I'll double check. Another option may be
Tools -> Options -> Load /Save -> General -> Default file format

I think it's close to his bed time, so may have to leave this until tomorrow...

[Warren]

If it turns up garbled then he might have to try saving as a pdf if it is only needed to be viewed (read only) by other people.

[Brian d marge]

Something wrong there , I use open office all the time and save as .doc and all my computers can open them, THOUGH sometimes the formatiing goes wierd , but usually it says something before I save

My mian desk top is Windows XP , word a few years old , the Laptops are Linux , open office ubuntu dapper ....


Stephen