OpenOffice

[Charlie Bullen]

You can also set the defaults to save in MS word or excel or whaever you
want instead of OpenOfficenative formats.

This is found under Tools-->Options-->Load/Save-->General.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn David Newton" <lynn.newton@cox.net>
To: "Phoenix Linux Users Group" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 9:25 AM
Subject: OpenOffice


>
> 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.
>
> --
> Lynn David Newton
> Phoenix, AZ
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