On Sunday 11 January 2009 00:43:09 Lloyd Lecuona wrote: > Hi Guys, > > LOVE OpenOffice BUT and its a HUGE but!! You are going to have to work a > plan to allow Microsoft Word to open the ODT documents automatically.
That is not an OpenOffice.org problem, that is a weakness MS Office. This will be solved when Office 14 comes out with ODF support. I suggest you call Microsoft and complain to them. > I sent out 200 emails to employees with OpenOffice attachments and only 3 > could open the file! OOo does however provide the ability for the user to save in a format that MSO users can read, it always has. Do "Save as" and select the appropriate file format. OOo saves to many different formats. >You will not grow unless you are able to chomp into > the leader in the industry and to do that we the users have to be able to > do it without hassles or large plug ins. If you're not sure what your enduser has in terms of software then simply use the "Export to PDF" option. It's one click of the pdf icon in your tool bar. Most computers have acrobat reader on them > > Kind regards > Lloyd > It always pays to read the Manual first, it's amazing what you will find. :) If you expect it to operate as a free version of word, you're doing yourself a disservice, OOo does so much more, some of it, as you can see, to make up for the deficiencies of MSO file handling abilities. Cheers GL -- "The Best Things in life are 3" http://why.openoffice.org ISO 26300 compliant Graham Lauder, OpenOffice.org MarCon (Marketing Contact) NZ http://marketing.openoffice.org/contacts.html INGOTs Assessor Trainer (International Grades in Office Technologies) www.theingots.org.nz --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
