[users] Re: microsoft works

2007-05-11 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Brian Barker wrote: snip By the way, every user of OpenOffice should install the free viewers from Microsoft for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files Hi Brian? Every user??? I don't think so. Some of us don't use Windows, believe it or not. ;-) The viewer only works on Windows. Cheers, Jonathan --

Re: [users] Re: microsoft works

2007-05-11 Thread James Knott
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Brian Barker wrote: snip By the way, every user of OpenOffice should install the free viewers from Microsoft for Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files Hi Brian? Every user??? I don't think so. Some of us don't use Windows, believe it or not. ;-) The viewer only

[users] Re: Microsoft Works

2007-04-12 Thread Gordon
Brian Barker wrote: At 11:12 11/04/2007 +, Fred Zackel wrote: I just downloaded openoffice.org, and I have Microsoft Works files to open, but filter selection does not give me clues on how to do that. Any suggestions? Yes: quite a few. (As you will have noticed, OpenOffice cannot import

[users] Re: Microsoft Works converson

2005-07-20 Thread Chad Smith
Um, those converters are for WordPerfect files - *not* - Works files. Pretty big difference there. -Chad Smith On 7/19/05, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In 1.1.? versions of OOo the converter for works documents is external (see : http://libwpd.sourceforge.net/ ). For beta 2.0 versions the

[users] Re: Microsoft Works converson

2005-07-20 Thread Paul
Sorry - your correct. Have a look at the FAQ answer to the original question about OOo opening works files: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/index.html-toc.html The beta versions of OOo open up .wks extension files, but I'm not sure if this means Lotus files or works files (since they have a