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.
I have been using OOo in a Microsoft oriented environment for almost a
decade. No major issues. My wife used OOo on Linux, Mac and Windows
because Office didn't work between Mac and Windows as good as OOo did.
From here you can see that MS used the same format until 2007 when XML
came out. Note that the XML files on Word are not the same as the OOXML
files.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word#Binary_formats_.28Word_97-2003.29
If you want to look at MS's own site.
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/docs/OfficeBinaryFormats.mspx
You can send people this link and then they can work with the ISO
standard OpenDocument format.
http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/
FWIW, at work here, OOo is better than Word for many things but LaTeX is
the leader.
My wife edits documents all the time with people from around the world
using OOo and hasn't used Word in over three years.
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Robin Laing
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