Linda, the straightforward approach is to procedurally enforce that the Open Office users save to the desired Excel format.
Respectfully, Mike C. Baker From: Wilcox, Linda K Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 3:01 PM To: 'users@openoffice.org' Subject: [users] Hello- I recently purchased two laptops for two of my staff. Our IT department ordered them and I was unaware the computers had Open Office on them until today. We purchased them in March 2011. I have a problem. Our office has 4 staff who should be able to utilize MS Excel. We have various documentation on these spreadsheets and need them to be accessible and able to be edited by all 4 staff. My secretary created a MS Excel spreadsheet and put it on our shared drive. When the 2 staff with Open Office go to the shared drive and open the worksheet they can view it and they can even edit the material within the spreadsheet. This is great.except.when they edit the Excel spreadsheet information it does NOT save it to the Excel spreadsheet but instead it creates a whole new spreadsheet in Open Office. Is there anything I can do to fix this and make it possible for all of us to view and edit the same worksheet regardless of the fact 2 have Open Office and 2 have MS Office? Thank you for your time and assistance. Linda Linda K Wilcox/EIOD /Program Mgr/SC Allegany County Health Department Early Intervention Program 7 Court Street, Belmont, NY 14813 585-268-9767 wilco...@alleganyco.com CONFIDENTIAL NOTICE This transmission, including any attachments, is for sole use of the intended receipient(s) or entity named above and may contain confidential and privileged infromation. If you receive this and are not the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, unauthorized distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this information is prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender as indicated above to arrange the proper handling of the information. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
