On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 13:22 -0400, Twayne wrote: > 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.
Mainly because I have never used it. I don't use Word any more and when I did I would just export from OOo. > Unless the recipients are open to installing OO.o, which would be > unusual in this kind of instance, Well they seem happy enough to install Acrobat Reader so why not OOo? Its a bit bigger file size but on modern computers it won;t make much difference. > 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. Depends really on whether you believe downloading and installing OOo is going to be a big hardship to them. Sometimes it is sometimes it isn't. > OTOH, maybe you can convert another user/s to OO.o; who knows<G>? If you don't try you never will ;-) I recently sent someone some odt files and he e-mailed me saying he couldn't open them I said download and install OOo, its free. He just replied thanks! So you never know. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
