This is not normal behavior for OOo.  When I have used this, I can Save As
whatever format I want to.  I'll look into this further when I get to the
office tomarrow.
-- 
Scott Carr
OpenOffice.org
Documentation Co-Lead

Garth Kay-Hards said:
> Hi
> I am using OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 on both Windows 98 and in Linux Mandrake
> 10.1 and I can't understand why the option to save a document in the Word
> Processor does not automatically allow all the format options when you use
> Save As.
> The initial empty document screen allows all the formats but when I've
> been working on a document and retrieve it I find that the next save
> format options "exclude" the MS Word formats etc.
> I'm finding that I have to select the whole document and copy it into the
> initial blank page so I can save it in MS Word format.  This is crazy!!
> Can the program be forced to always include the full list or is this a
> bug?
> I am trying to pursuade our church office to swing away from the MicroSoft
> systems onto open source and it is very necessary to have all the formats
> available all the time so that a mixed network environment (Windows /
> Linux) can share documents easily and without fiddling.
> Thanks
> Garth Kay-Hards
> Pietermaritzburg
> South Africa
>
>



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