On Tuesday June 19 2007 5:07 pm, me 1004 wrote:
> Re your questions, I had already answered your first one in the
> second sentence of my original e-mail: yes, I saved the Writer
> document in Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP format.
>
> Re your second question: I think yes, it was checked for automatic
> file name extension as the extension was added to the file name.
>
> Nonetheless, I could not open the document in my MS Word 2001 for
> Mac -- although I regularly open Word documents from Windows
> machines on this Mac.
>
> Re the slide show file -- I do not know if it was saved for
> Microsoft PowerPoint, probably was set as your default. I expect
> whatever the solution for the Writer document -- and it is not that
> it was not formatted properly to be opened in Word -- will be the
> same for the PowerPoint issue.
>
> Please don't forget my last question: is there any way to set the
> Save function to automatically default to MS Word for Win
> ME-2000-XP -- as it is a pain in the neck to try to remember that
> each and every time.
I doubt that I could help you with most of your problems without
having the file, itself. However, the last problem is easy to
correct.
Tools > Options > Load/Save > General. The bottom of this window
has a "Default file format" section. You need to set your preferences
there as to how you want the files saved. Set the Text documents to
be saved as Microsoft Word and Presentations as Microsoft PowerPoint.
Dan
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: users@openoffice.org
> To: users@openoffice.org
> CC: "me 1004" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [users] Open Office compatibility with MS Office for
> Mac Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:22:55 -0500
>
> On Tuesday June 19 2007 1:38 pm, me 1004 wrote:
> > My friend is using your current Open Office. Yesterday, we
> > discovered the files from it do NOT seem to be compatible with
> > MS Office 2001 for Mac -- and possibly not with any MS Office.
> >
> > Yes, we saved the Writer file as MS Word for Win ME-2000-XP --
> > but the file still could not be opened in MS Word 2001 for Mac.
> >
> > We also tried opening a Open Office Presentations file in MS
> > PowerPoint 2001 for Mac, but it would not open.
> >
> > What is wrong, what can we do? Is this incompatibiilty also
> > happening on Windows machines? MS Office for both Mac and
> > Windows are supposed to open the same formats, so I have to
> > think if we can't open these files in the Mac version, we also
> > won't be able to open them in the Windows version.
> >
> > Lastly, is there any way to set the Save function to
> > automatically default to MS Word for Win ME-2000-XP -- as it is
> > a pain in the neck to try to remember that each and every time.
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> How did you try to save the file? Did you make sure that for
> documents the File type was Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) and
> for slide shows the File type was Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP
> (.ppt)? Was the little box labeled "Automatic file name extension"
> checked at the bottom of the Save As window?
>
> Dan
>
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