2010/5/23 James Hardaker <jhar.skegn...@gmail.com> > Hi - can anyone tell me if OpenOffice files created on a Windows PC can be > opened in OpenOffice on an Apple Mac and/or Linux PC? > Thanks! >
James, no matter what text editor you use to create a document, e g, OpenOffice, MS Office, gedit, notebook, etc, when saved it is accessed via the OS used when it was created. Thus on a Windows OS, it would most often be saved under «(My) Documents», in Ubuntu under «Documents» in the respective file system (NTFS and ext 4, respectively). The problem is not whether OpenOffice on Linux or Mac can open and .odt file or .doc file created on a Windows OS - it can - but whether it can gain access to the file, which has been saved on a different file system in a different OS. The important thing to remember is that the file is not saved in OpenOffice, which is a programme which allows one to create documents in certain formats, but in a directory under a certain OS on a given machine. If, for example, you can get the document created on your Windows machine onto your Linux or Mac box, you will then be able to use OOo to open it. One of doing so would be to send it to yourself as an email attachment, and then open and store it on the machine in question.... Henri
