2010/5/23 James Knott <james.kn...@rogers.com> > M Henri Day wrote: > >> 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 >> >> >> > What the heck does your reply have to do with the question??? The > differences between operating systems are irrelevant to whether a file from > one OS can be used on another. Typically, the file would be shared via > network, email or USB pen drive. The means is irrelevant. >
Thanks, James, for the considerate manner in which you expressed your reply ! I read the OP's question as requesting information as to how to gain access to a document that had been created in OOo on a Windows box from a Linux or Mac machine. Your reading may be different, and my interpretationerroneous, but you might want to consider reflecting over the way in which you have chosen to point this out.... Henri
