Ellie Kuykendall wrote: > Hi everyone. i don't know how to view answers on this list, so when I > sent for the messages, it only replied with titles and authors. I > wrote to someone who had posed a question, but it bounced back. > > So, here are my questions: > > 1. How do you view the answers to the questions if you're a new user? > 2. Problem with MS Word and OO > I have posed this question on the forums twice, and I have not had > a satisfactory answer. Nobody really has the answer. > > I am a writer. All my editors want docs in MS Word. I didn't know > when I downloaded OO that everything I wrote new would automatically > be saved as OO. And, when I try to open from the start menu my recent > docs or my docs, and then I click on it, it always opens with OO. I > have to go back to Word. I love OO, but I just can't keep wasting this > time. > > So, I want to go back to Word completely. If I uninstall OO, will it > delete all the documents that are now saved in OO, or will it leave > them as my original NS documents/ I had no idea that OO automatically > saved everything in it's format when I downloaded the program. > > 3. If I can't just delete OO and have my documents remain as MS Word, > then what do I have to do? Someone suggested saving everything as MS > Word on a removable disc, then deleting OO, and then reinstalling > Word. But I don't have hundreds of hours to do to this. I have more > than 16 GB of documents! > > I hope all this is clear as mud. Thank you very much for your help. Do you actually need only Office 2003 version? If so there's something seriously wrong. If they use Office 2003, they should have no problem with either Word 97/2000/XP or Word 2003 XML formats. If you are in fact limited to only that version, then you've just demonstrated one of the problems with Microsoft Office i.e. backward compatibility.
BTW, which version of OpenOffice are you using? The latest is 3.1.0 and has the best Microsoft Office support. -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
