During class last week, I was presented with an interesting situation. The university computer lab only has Openoffice.Org version 1.x on it. This version of OO.o only reads/writes the .SXW format for word processor documents. I had worked on my assignment at home with a newer version of OO.o, which saved my document as an .ODT file. The older software will not read the .ODT file.
Since the computers are locked-down, i.e. I don't have the ability to gain permisisons to install the newer OpenOffice. I did a quick google search, and found this. http://media-convert.com I was able to upload my ODT file, and have media-convert.com convert it to a word DOC file, which was opened easily in the older version of OpenOffice. I did a quick scan of their "terms" and there wasn't anything that resembled a privacy policy, so they may be keeping and selling all the documents they are freely converting for you, so obviously, don't use a service like this for sensitive or confidential documents you wouldn't want anyone else to see. :) -- /* david kaiser (NO SPAM/UCE) pubkey=1C8DCC8D begin e-mail decoder */ main() {int j=-1;char t[]="gndlvhuCfgn1frp\r";while(t[j]!='\r'){putchar(t[++j]-3);}0;}
