OpenOffice

[Jim]

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OO 1.0 here on both Linux and W98 have the option to save a document in Word 
97/2000/XP, Word95, Word 6.0, and RTF formats.  I have not tried to save any 
documents under these formats because we have no way of verifying the 
compatibility with Word, which does not run on any of our computers.

On Tuesday 09 July 2002 09:25, you wrote:
> A friend of mine has a Windows machine which until
> recently had only the ancient MS Works (notice that's
> *not* MS *Word*) for a word processor. At my suggestion
> he got OpenOffice. He tells me that he can't save a
> document from OpenOffice in Word format. I find that
> hard to believe. Is that true?
>
> I've got StarOffice, which I used for that sort of
> thing until I finally acquired MS Office on my Windows
> machine. The one and only reason I ever used SO was so
> I could read and save word processing documents in Word
> format. Can it really be true that one cannot save from
> OpenOffice in Word format?
>
> I tried downloading and installing OpenOffice on my
> Linux system, but the first two times I brought it up
> it hung my system so tight I had to reboot. Enough of
> that nonsense. I couldn't get it off my system fast
> enough.

- -- 
Jim

Freedom is worth protecting

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