[users] OPENING OFFICE 2007 FILES IN OPEN OFFICE PROGRAMS

[Cornelius Seon]

In another message thread it was asked if you can open Office 2007 files 
in Open Office, and the reply was that you simply had to change the 
extensions from ###x to ###, where ### = the three letter extensions for 
Office 2003 files and Open Office files. That is NOT true. In order to 
convert Office 2007 files to work in Open Office, you need to convert 
them within Office 2007 to Office 2003 format - which means several 
features will drop out as not being supported in Office 2003. One 
big-time example is the handling complex documents in both versions of 
MSWord. In MSWord 2003, seperate chapters are handled as Parent and 
Child Documents, whereas in MSWord 2007, they get consolidated into a 
single document. When you do this sort of document in the reverse order 
- prepare it in Word 2007 and revert it to Word 2003, you have to 
separate the separate chapters into Master and Child format, and then 
you have to clean up the formatting errors that will crop up with the 
conversion. The point is that just changing the extension will NOT 
change the format. Another point is that files created by Office 2003 
tend to include a W32 Exploit Virus that remains in hiding when the file 
gets ported over elsewhere. I've had it show up in Word 2007, so I'll 
bet it shows up in Open Office as well.

I hope this is helpful.
Cornelius Seon

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