Your Daughter will be able to open all her previous Microsoft Office Files. The ones that have a *.doc/*.xls/*.ppt file extension. If your Daughter starts using Microsoft Office 12 (a.k.a Microsoft Office 2007)
She is going to have to save any documents she want's to use at school or share with other people in Microsoft Compatability Mode which saves the files out as *.doc/*.xls/*.ppt which can be ready by other versions of Microsoft Office (2003/2001/97). This is because Microsoft Office 12 (a.k.aMicrosoft Office 2007) default format is unable to be opened by Programs other Than Microsoft Office 2007. This Default Format can be recognised as *.docx/*.xlsx/*.pptx file extensions. These new files allow for things like larger spreadsheets (more than 65536 rows) but cannot be opened by other programs even earlier versions of Microsoft Office On 28/01/2008, Russell Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cathy Zeeman wrote: > > If i download this seemingly wonderful program on my daughter's > > computer.....her new computer only came with Word Perfect > > 12.........will she be able to open her previoius Microsoft Word > > Documents? At this time she cannot open them with Word Perfect 12. > > If she makes a document in open office, will she be able to open it > > at her school in Microsoft Word? Thank you for a quick answer. We > > are in quite the delimma here not wanting to spend $200 for the > > cheapest student Mic. Office program. Thanks, cathy > > Hi Cathy > > In general the answer is Yes, except for the latest MS Office 2007 > (docx, etc file types). > > To open them at school in MS Office, she will have to remember to save > from OOo in MS format, as MS do _not_ support the ISO Standard files > used as default by OOo. Make sure also in the "Save" dialogue that the > "Automatic file name extension" is checked. > > HTH > > Russell > > -- > Note that this is a mailing list maintained by volunteers. Please > consider subscribing so you will see all replies. > > Please reply only to users@openoffice.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
