[users] Re: MS Word Alternative

2011-08-08 Thread Dave Barton
Copy to paul whitehill - Non-Subscribed Poster Original Message From: Doug To: users@openoffice.org Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:18:22 -0400 > On 08/07/2011 04:18 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >> 2011/7/30 paul whitehill: >>> Hi i wonder if you can help me. >> I wonder that to

[users] Re: MS Word Alternative

2011-08-08 Thread James Knott
Dale Erwin wrote: but .odt is the proper file extension for ODF files. For text files. Spreadsheets use .ods etc. -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@open

[users] Re: MS Word Alternative

2011-08-07 Thread Dale Erwin
On 8/7/2011 8:24 PM, James Knott wrote: paul whitehill wrote: Hi i wonder if you can help me. the alternative seems to have a charge £1.59 but it says it is free. Is the open office Writer the same as MS Word ? This is the software I want to type up a document, can you help me ? Are there any so

[users] Re: MS Word Alternative

2011-08-07 Thread Dale Erwin
On 8/7/2011 5:29 PM, Dave Barton wrote: Copy to paul whitehill - Non-Subscribed Poster Original Message From: Doug To: users@openoffice.org Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:18:22 -0400 On 08/07/2011 04:18 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2011/7/30 paul whitehill: Hi i wonder if you

[users] Re: MS Word Alternative

2011-08-07 Thread James Knott
Doug wrote: What's ODF? My OO/LO/Symnphony wants to save in .odt. ODF stands for Open Document Format, which includes ODT for text documents, ODS for spreadsheets etc. -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoff

[users] Re: MS Word Alternative

2011-08-07 Thread James Knott
paul whitehill wrote: Hi i wonder if you can help me. the alternative seems to have a charge £1.59 but it says it is free. Is the open office Writer the same as MS Word ? This is the software I want to type up a document, can you help me ? Are there any softwa

[users] Re: MS Word Alternative

2011-08-07 Thread RA Brown
Doug wrote: On 08/07/2011 04:18 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2011/7/30 paul whitehill: Hi i wonder if you can help me. I wonder that too… the alternative seems to have a charge £1.59 but it says it is free. What alternative and to what? OpenOffice.org is free if you download it at http://www.

[users] Re: MS Word Alternative

2011-08-07 Thread Dave Barton
Copy to paul whitehill - Non-Subscribed Poster Original Message From: Doug To: users@openoffice.org Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:18:22 -0400 > On 08/07/2011 04:18 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: >> 2011/7/30 paul whitehill: >>> Hi i wonder if you can help me. >> I wonder that to

[users] Re: MS Word Alternative

2011-08-07 Thread Doug
On 08/07/2011 04:18 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: 2011/7/30 paul whitehill: Hi i wonder if you can help me. I wonder that too… the alternative seems to have a charge £1.59 but it says it is free. What alternative and to what? OpenOffice.org is free if you download it at http://www.

[users] Re: MS Word Alternative

2011-08-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2011/7/30 paul whitehill : > Hi i  wonder  if  you  can  help me. I wonder that too… > > the alternative  seems to  have  a  charge £1.59 but  it says  it  is  free. What alternative and to what? OpenOffice.org is free if you download it at http://www.openoffice.org/. No charge what so ever, as l

Re: [users] Re: Ms word mode

2009-04-06 Thread Harold Fuchs
2009/4/6 Russell Butler > arlette7...@att.net wrote: > >> Dear Users, I wrote a text document and I saved it in MS Word (I >> tried to save it in Documents and folder) when I tried to open it I >> get the message "invalid format". When I tried to retrieve the text >> in the email as attachments I

[users] Re: Ms word mode

2009-04-05 Thread Russell Butler
arlette7...@att.net wrote: Dear Users, I wrote a text document and I saved it in MS Word (I tried to save it in Documents and folder) when I tried to open it I get the message "invalid format". When I tried to retrieve the text in the email as attachments I cannot retrieve it directly from Office

[users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-07 Thread Roxy Robinson
Now, now, children! *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 4/7/2007 at 11:12 PM Larry Gusaas wrote: James Knott wrote: > Larry Gusaas wrote: > >> Gordon wrote: >> >>> Raghavendra Gupta wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hello I am using open office version 2.2, However, it d

[users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Larry Gusaas
James Knott wrote: OO 2.x can read and write the old format files. OO 1.1.5 can read but not write v2 files. MS Word recent versions cannot read older files, such as Word 6, even though OO can. IIUC Word 2007 can write to Word 97-2003 .doc format and also read them. Your statement implie

Re: [users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Tom Chilton
On 6 Apr 2007, at 22:58, James Knott wrote: Richard Detwiler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: Gordon wrote: Raghavendra Gupta wrote: Hello I am using open office version 2.2, However, it does not recognise the files created in word 2007. Any suggestions Thank

Re: [users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Johnny Andersson
2007/4/7, Larry Gusaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: James Knott wrote: > Larry Gusaas wrote: > >> Gordon wrote: >> >>> Raghavendra Gupta wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hello I am using open office version 2.2, However, it does not recognise the files created in word 2007. Any suggestio

[users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Larry Gusaas
James Knott wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: Gordon wrote: Raghavendra Gupta wrote: Hello I am using open office version 2.2, However, it does not recognise the files created in word 2007. Any suggestions Thanks MS Office 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 don't recognise

Re: [users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-06 Thread James Knott
Richard Detwiler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Larry Gusaas wrote: >> >>> Gordon wrote: >>> Raghavendra Gupta wrote: > Hello > > I am using open office version 2.2, However, it does not recognise > the > files created in word 2007. >

Re: [users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Richard Detwiler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: Gordon wrote: Raghavendra Gupta wrote: Hello I am using open office version 2.2, However, it does not recognise the files created in word 2007. Any suggestions Thanks MS Office 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 don't reco

Re: [users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-06 Thread James Knott
Larry Gusaas wrote: > Gordon wrote: >> Raghavendra Gupta wrote: >> >> >>> Hello >>> >>> I am using open office version 2.2, However, it does not recognise the >>> files created in word 2007. >>> >>> Any suggestions >>> >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> >> >> MS Office 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 don't reco

[users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Larry Gusaas
Gordon wrote: Raghavendra Gupta wrote: Hello I am using open office version 2.2, However, it does not recognise the files created in word 2007. Any suggestions Thanks MS Office 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 don't recognise 2007 files EITHER! Not without a converter add-in! More arrogan

[users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-06 Thread Gordon
Raghavendra Gupta wrote: > Hello > > I am using open office version 2.2, However, it does not recognise the > files created in word 2007. > > Any suggestions > > > Thanks > MS Office 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 don't recognise 2007 files EITHER! Not without a converter add-in! More arrogant "cou

Re: [users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-04 Thread Dan Lewis
Wednesday April 04 2007 2:57 pm, James Knott wrote: > Raghavendra Gupta wrote: > > Hello > > > > I am using open office version 2.2, However, it does not > > recognise the files > > created in word 2007. > > > > Any suggestions > > Office 2007 saves files in a non-standard format and uses > extens

Re: [users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-04 Thread James Knott
Raghavendra Gupta wrote: Hello I am using open office version 2.2, However, it does not recognise the files created in word 2007. Any suggestions Office 2007 saves files in a non-standard format and uses extensions such as .docx. These files are incompatible with everything other than

[users] Re: MS word 2007

2007-04-04 Thread Raghavendra Gupta
Hello I am using open office version 2.2, However, it does not recognise the files created in word 2007. Any suggestions Thanks -- Raghavendra K Gupta 229 B Reichelt Road New Milford, NJ 07646 (Res) 201-265-3473 (Cell) 201-916-6929 (Off) 845-639-5194

Re: [users] Re: MS word

2006-12-20 Thread Ross Bernheim
On Dec 20, 2006, at 6:20, DougT wrote: Jay wrote: Harold Fuchs wolfeden.demon.co.uk> writes: You must save the document in Word format. Use File>Save As and select the relevant version (probably "97/2000/XP") of Microsoft Word as the file type. Also make sure you have "Automatic file name

Re: [users] Re: MS word

2006-12-20 Thread DougT
Jay wrote: Harold Fuchs wolfeden.demon.co.uk> writes: You must save the document in Word format. Use File>Save As and select the relevant version (probably "97/2000/XP") of Microsoft Word as the file type. Also make sure you have "Automatic file name extension" checked. This will cause your

Re: [users] Re: MS word

2006-12-20 Thread James Knott
Jay wrote: > Harold Fuchs wolfeden.demon.co.uk> writes: > > >> You must save the document in Word format. Use File>Save As and select >> the relevant version (probably "97/2000/XP") of Microsoft Word as the >> file type. Also make sure you have "Automatic file name extension" >> checked. Thi

[users] Re: MS word

2006-12-19 Thread Jay
Harold Fuchs wolfeden.demon.co.uk> writes: > You must save the document in Word format. Use File>Save As and select > the relevant version (probably "97/2000/XP") of Microsoft Word as the > file type. Also make sure you have "Automatic file name extension" > checked. This will cause your docum

Re: [users] Re: MS Word for IMAC OS 9.2

2006-12-14 Thread Guy Voets
nal Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Dec 13, 2006 9:03 AM >To: users@openoffice.org >Subject: Re: [users] Re: MS Word for IMAC OS 9.2 > >Dan, > >Thank you for responding to my request. Unfortunately, we don't have anyone >who can install a Linux PPC op

Re: [users] Re: MS Word for IMAC OS 9.2

2006-12-13 Thread James Mckenzie
ec 13, 2006 9:03 AM >To: users@openoffice.org >Subject: Re: [users] Re: MS Word for IMAC OS 9.2 > >Dan, > >Thank you for responding to my request. Unfortunately, we don't have anyone >who can install a Linux PPC operating system. I just want to get a word >process

Re: [users] Re: MS Word for IMAC OS 9.2

2006-12-13 Thread ChoctawFrench
Dan, Thank you for responding to my request. Unfortunately, we don't have anyone who can install a Linux PPC operating system. I just want to get a word processor software so the kids can type letters, etc. I'll try the Microsoft website again. Thanks again. Happy Holidays, T. Delorme

Re: [users] Re: MS Word for IMAC OS 9.2

2006-12-12 Thread Marc Hug
With OpenOffice, what you will have is not Microsoft Word, but OpenOffice Writer - a similar program, but not the same. If you have to give your documents to people who have only MS Word, you will first have to save them in MS Word format. See Marc H. [EMAIL PROT

Re: [users] Re: MS Word for IMAC OS 9.2

2006-12-12 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 03:31 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We need a software program to do word processing of letters, etc. > Just basic stuff. We have an older IMAC OS 9.2 with 512 MB Ram. > Is it possible to get MS Word 98 or Word 2001 for this computer? > If so, where do we get it

[users] Re: MS Word for IMAC OS 9.2

2006-12-12 Thread ChoctawFrench
We need a software program to do word processing of letters, etc. Just basic stuff. We have an older IMAC OS 9.2 with 512 MB Ram. Is it possible to get MS Word 98 or Word 2001 for this computer? If so, where do we get it and what is the requirement for each? We'd appreciate any help y

[users] Re: MS word

2006-12-08 Thread Jeff Smith
Possible silly question: Did you save the file in Word format [ Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) ] in the File Type dropdown when you went to save? or did you just keep the OpenDocument Text (.odt) file type?, which would be the default. Hannah wrote: > I have been having difficulties getting anyt