Marion Chaix wrote:
Please could you advise on whether it is possible to save my Microsoft files
(with passwords) to Open Office files, and which can be compatible and open
in Microsoft later on. At the moment the files seem to duplicate as Open
Office files even though I would like to keep only the one file (compatible
in both Microsoft & Open Office). If changing the files to Open Office does
not allow me to open the files in Microsoft later on, please let me know.
Please advise, thank you.
Regards
Save your Microsoft files in the 2000/2003 versions
of file format, like .doc instead of .docx.
OpenOffice.org reads and writes MS Office 2003 and earlier
formats well. I have both OOo 3.1 and MS Office 2003/pro
and I almost never use Microsoft any more, since OpenOffice.org
3.0/3.1 works with 99.9% of the work I do with MS's Word and
Excel files I deal with.
If one person uses MS Office 2007 and you use Office 2003,
you will need the 2007 person to save those files in the
earlier formats, which still are, as far as I am shown, as
the MS Office business standard. Most of the people and
businesses I deal with have not bought into Office 2007.
So OpenOffice.org will read and write those files very well.
It can also read Office 2007 files, much of the time, but not
write them. So stick with the MS file formats that do not
end with the "x".
Tim L.
retired from the computer field, but still active as a
volunteer in that same area. Have to keep the mind from
becoming mush.
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