OpenOffice

Digital Wokan plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:51:34 -0700


I have OO1 on a Win2K system at work, and I can say that the save as 
Word and Excel options work great.

Jim wrote:

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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.
>>
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> - -- 
> Jim
> 
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