Hi :) If Works is given out for free and it's native formats are incompatible with MS Office then it embarrasses people into spending tons of dosh on buying MS Office. It shows that a "free" system is inadequate and that the person using it is 'cheap'. Once embarrassed and publicly humiliated in such a way a person will typically cave-in and spend almost any amount of money to prove they are worthy. It makes people very wary of anything "free" and sets up all sorts of problems in trying to market LO. It is a very basic sales tactic. Is it called a 'hard sell' or does it have a less aggressive title now? Regards from Tom :)
--- On Thu, 17/11/11, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <[email protected]> wrote: From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Works To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 17 November, 2011, 1:06 On 11/16/2011 03:26 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: > John > > > On 11/16/2011 01:50 PM, John Gregson wrote: >> I am using Win 7 32 & 64 >> I am just starting to explore Libre Office. >> Some where I saw a statement that Libre Office would open >> files generated by Microsoft Works; is this true? >> >> John. >> *John. [email protected]* >> > I checked in Writer FILE>>OPEN and clicked on file type to open the scroll > box. I scrolled down to 'Microsoft Works Documents *.wps'. I did this to see > what the file extension is for Works. On the other scroll box, Works is > listed but the extension is not shown. > > I do not have any Works files to test this on but with 3.4.X I have had > success opening msox and mso files so would expect wps to open properly with > LO. > I looks to me that LO 3.4.3 will read Works files but will not write them, since "Open" list Works, but not "Save As". If for some reason it does not open Works documents properly, you should be able to save the files within Works to some other format. It has been some years since I dealt with Works, but I have a copy or three to install on my Vista laptop to test this out if need be. To be honest, I do not know why MS still gives them out with some new computer systems, along with their trial of MSO. MSO did not like to deal with Works files a few years back when I was using MSO as my only office package. Very few packages will read Works documents. People are luck that LO is one of the packages that do read them. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
