Pam Moore wrote:
> I just downloaded openoffice and had a few questions to help get me
started.
> (1) If I don't want to register, how can I still use the program?
Registering is entirely optional. Just click “Already registered” if
you don’t want to register.
> (2) I need to email a client a spreadsheet that was done in Microsoft
> Works.
> He is unable to open it and can only receive Word documents.
> The spread sheet was made with Windows XP and now I have Windows Vista.
> Please help!!! Can't wait to work with the program...it looks great
and very user friendly.
Whether you use Windows XP or Windows Vista doesn’t matter at all.
However if you have an Excel file that was created in Microsoft Office
2007 or later in the new Microsoft Office file formats, then it is not
readable by the current version of OpenOffice.org. That may be your
difficulty.
OpenOffice.org version 3.0, supposedly due in September, can read the
Microsoft 2007 file formats. You can then write the file out in the
older Microsoft format and send it to your client. You can download a
beta version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 from http://www.openoffice.org/ which
can exist on your PC without interfering with the regular OpenOffice.org
2.4.1. Or you can download OxygenOffice from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop . They claim to be able to handle
the new format now. But you will have to blow away your current version
of OpenOffice.org to use OxygenOffice. It is mostly identical to
OpenOffice.org, being mostly legitimately based on the same code.
As to Microsoft Works files, OxygenOffice claims to be able to read them
now also.
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Jim Allan
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