Andy Luddy wrote:
Ian Lynch wrote:
On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 22:45 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
However, I gather OOo doesn't open Works documents.
Save as rtf then import. In fact OOo does a lot better job of importing
MS Office docs than works so for a new user OOo is a far better bet than
Works. If you have a load of Works legacy documents you will have Works
already so keep it for when needed and use OOo for everything else. Its
not like many people interchange files as Works attachments.
I suppose, for text documents, they can be saved to RTF and imported
like that into OOo, but spreadsheets with formulae in them would be a
problem.
Why? Works has an Excel export which can then be imported into OOo.
The problem with what you suggest (which is the course I took some years
ago) is: a) it's two awkward steps (using different programs), which can
become an issue if you have hundreds of older documents to access, and
b) it may not be possible if the computer with Works has crashed, and
the new computer (where you are trying to read your old backup copies)
doesn't have Works.
This is a problem with any closed format files from any old program.
You get a new computer and find that your old files are now not readable.
I have many paradox databases that are not directly usable by me. This
is one of the nice reasons for using odf which is an open and
standardized file format.
At least with odf I can read the documents on Linux, mac or Windows.
Anything that can unzip the file and read XML can read an odf document.
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Robin Laing
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