At 08:21 23/04/2010 +0200, Antonello Martino wrote:
As from your request, in replay to the
following my previous mail, I give you below detailed information
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Da: Antonello Martino <antonello.mart...@gmail.com>
Data: 17 aprile 2010 18.22.54 GMT+02.00
In the last days if I save on my MAC OS X
10.6.3 a document word or excel Microsoft
Office 2008 (updated 24.3.2010) I cannot read
these documents with OpenOffice 3.2.0 updated
on 30 march 2010 on my Windows Netbook with 7
starter. Some time ago it was possible (I had
the previous version of Open Office). Can you help me ?
I enclose pdf images of made operations:
[...]
2) saving document with Microsoft Office 2008
[...]
Is it enough to understand my problems ?
Yes. The problem is nothing at all to do with
OpenOffice, but with how you are saving your
document files from Microsoft Word on your Mac.
Windows recognises file types by the extension to
the file name - the three (or so) characters
after a dot at the end of the name. But by
default Windows suppresses display of these
extensions, so you may not see them. (Your Mac
system does things differently and does not
require extensions.) In fact, you are saving
document files without any extension to their
names, so Windows does not know what to do with
them. Contrary to what you say, you can open
these document files in OpenOffice - merely by
starting OpenOffice first and then using File |
Open... from within OpenOffice to browse to and
open the file. Alternatively, you can simply
rename the document files to add the necessary extension.
But your screenshot 2 shows the problem. I see
you are working in Modalità Compatibilità (=
Compatibility Mode) - which is probably sensible
- so you are saving in the older Word document
format and need the .doc extension added to your
document file names. Look at the bottom of your
screenshot: there is the "Aggiungi estensione di
file" (= Add extension to file name) option. You
must have disabled that option earlier, and your
copy of Microsoft Word has remembered your new
choice. Just replace the tick in that box and
Word will again add the .doc extensions for you automatically.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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