> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Richard England<[email protected]> > wrote: > Interesting. I was just corresponding this morning with a new Ubuntu > user who was telling me that she couldn't find the option to save in > *.doc format in LibreOffice. I wonder if Ubuntu's version is behind > Fedora and doesn't have that capability, or if she just couldn't find > where to do it? (I don't know her well, but I get the distinct > impression her computer skills are not highly developed.) I suggested > to her she might check into installing OpenOffice.org, but perhaps > that isn't necessary.
Could she have been thinking it would be an export type of function under the File menu? Tell her it's in the dialog box that opens when she tells Libre Office to save the file. There is a line that says, "File Type" and has a little arrowhead pointing to the right. If she clicks on that line the arrow head changes to pointing down and there is the list of all the available file types. My Ubuntu installation of Libre Office has options for saving as a .doc in MS Word 97/2000/XP or MS Word 95. There are also options for saving as MS Word 2003 XML (.xml) and MS Word 2007 XML (.docx). These are lower in the list, and not adjacent to the .doc options. Perhaps that's why she couldn't find .doc. Another possibility is that she was looking for the way to tell Libre Office to always save a file as .doc. This is under the Tools > Options menu in the Load/Save section. The extensions are not shown, but the one she probably would want is MS Word 97/2000/XP. In this tool all the MS file type options are grouped together. It might have been confusing to her because the file extensions are not shown. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
