Ian Lynch wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 13:14 +0100, Ron wrote: >> I use and prefer Openoffice.Org . Its an excellent program. >> >> However my correspondents use only MS Word and the command open >> with , does not work. How do we get around this problem ??? > > > You can either "save as.." rtf or .doc. They can download OOo for free > like they would Acrobat reader and open your files and then export > them to whatever format they use. They can also e-mail Microsoft and > ask them to produce odf support in whatever versions of MS Office > they are using.
Right. When sending documents, if the recipient's capabilities are known, the sender should try to accomodate. It's better for one person to make mods than for possibly several to accomodate the one. .rtf (rich text format) and .doc(word format; and can include version) are the usual solutions. In additon, SUN also provides an add-in for MS Office that will allow Word to open Writer documents to work on them. I find it curious no one mentioned it. Unless the recipients are open to installing OO.o, which would be unusual in this kind of instance, then the file formats, or them installing the SUN addin are IMO the best solutions. But the OP should be the one making changes for the recipient/s IMO. OTOH, maybe you can convert another user/s to OO.o; who knows<G>? HTH, Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
