On 06/23/2015 02:15 PM, Richard Fox wrote: > I’m considering using Open Office instead of the MS products that I’ve used > for years. I’ve done a slight amount of testing to look into compatibility > with MS Office, and I’m not getting the results I had hoped for. > > Can you tell me how OO interacts with the MS world – like how do you convert > documents from one format to the other. I’ve tried opening an OO document > with Word and it took about 3 or 4 steps to do it. I then tried to open a > Word document in OO and I was unable to. I also tried to save a Word document > with an OO extension and I couldn’t to it. > > If there’s an easy way to migrate back and forth I would really be interested > in OO and I’d gladly contribute to your development. However, I need to be > able to live in both “worlds”. > >
You should be able to open Word, Excel etc. documents without any problem. Just click on the icon and OO should open. However, if you already have MS Office installed, it might be the default application. In that case, just right click on the file and select the app you want. As for OO to MS, that depends on the version. Later versions of MS Office should be able to open ODF (the OO default) documents, but you can also export in MS formats. You can even make the MS formats the default. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
