Clayton wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Here's an interesting thing.
I was sent a Microsoft Works Document today.
Open Office 3.1 on Ubuntu 9.04 will open it instantly on double-clicking
on it, although the graphics in it had to be re-done.
Open Office 3.1 on WINDOWS however was a different story. All that
happened is that the Filter window appeared, upon which (unless I missed
it) Microsoft Works does NOT appear and so it seems that the Windows
version of OO 3.1 won't open wps documents whereas it seems that the
Linux version will!
The simple answer to that is that most Linux distributions base their
OOo version on the GoOO builds from Novel instead of the "official"
version direct from the OO.o website. The GoOO builds include
functionality/extras that are not (yet) included (for various reasons)
in the main OOo build. The Windows version of OOo you are using is from
the OO.o website... so it does not include the MSWorks filter.
See also:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/DocumentManagement/How_can_I_open_Microsoft_Works_wordprocessor_files_(.wps)%3F
C.
And for Windows if you want the Go-oo flavor of OpenOffice.org (w/ the
MSWorks filters..as they are) you can get a copy at
http://go-oo.org/download/
or the Novell web site...but Novell only offer a single very large
binary image.
I believe that these filters are also found in the version of
OpenOffice.org found at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop
This latter offering a number of addons along with the baseline
application, pre-loaded.
Best wishes,
Drew
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