Jay wrote:
Harold Fuchs <oo_volunteer <at> wolfeden.demon.co.uk> writes:
You must save the document in Word format. Use File>Save As and select
the relevant version (probably "97/2000/XP") of Microsoft Word as the
file type. Also make sure you have "Automatic file name extension"
checked. This will cause your document to be saved in a format that Word
can read. Unfortunately Microsoft Office is currently deficient in that
it cannot read/write ISO (International Standards Organisation) format
documents. Microsoft has committed to rectifying this in the future.
OpenOffice can read/write most Word documents although they are not 100%
compatible, particularly for complex documents. The reason for tihs is
that Microsoft does not publish the inner workings of its format so
other software cannot guarantee to be able to handle all its subtelties.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
I believe this has changed with the new Office 2007 suite - all documents will
be in OpenXML format (published!), so hopefully future versions of OO can do
proper read/writes.
What does their (M$'s) Kool-aid taste like? OpenXML is *not* Open
Document Format (ISO 26300). Micro$oft is working to propagate a
parallel but different standard with a confusingly similar name to sway
the gullible in order to maintain their lock on the desktop. They
adopted this tactic only after losing business to to the REAL open
document standard.
DougT
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