Hi
Just want to report that I have been using the beta version for a
week now with NO problems and so far total compabillity. And very much
faster too.
Happy I am about this! Recommend it I will...
Marie
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18 mar 2008 kl. 15.40 skrev Guy Voets:
2008/3/16, Sarah Anastasi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
I am trying to open a Writer document with Word,
and it doesn't seem to be compatible; it's come up with a page of
nonsense.
No, the document didn't start off as nonsense.
This is very inconvenient for me, as I am using a computer that
does NOT
have Open Office.
I was using Open Office on the understanding that it was fully
compatible
with Microsoft Office Suite.
Not happy;
Sasha
Hello Sasha,
In what format did you save the document that now comes up as
nonsense in
Word?
By default, OpenOffice.org saves in the internationally approved
standard
ODF format (ods, odt...).
Microsoft cannot read this document standard.
So you have to save your work in OOo in a format that MS can read,
i.e. its
own .doc, .xls etc.
Sa Save As > choose .doc (MS Word 97, 2000, XP) and don't forget to
click on
the automatic filename extension.
As for full compatability, this is hard to achieve since MS formats
are
secret and closed. OOo succeeds in 'imitating' them by 'backward
engeneering', a intelligent way of guessing.
HTH
--
Guy
using dutch OOo 2.3 m221 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger
and brazilian OOo SRC 680 m241 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard
-- please reply only to users@openoffice.org --
Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
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