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
OpenOffice.org can read files that were password protected under MS
Office, but not the other way around. You can use File > Save As to save
your documents in the MS Office formats (like .doc and .xls). You can
change the default to use the MSO types instead of the Open Document
Format ones (like .odt and .ods), by using Tools > Options > Load/Save >
General and choosing what you want at the bottom for "Document type" and
"Always save as." Either of these will let MSO users work with your
documents. Current versions of OOo can read, but not write, the Office
2007 filetypes (like .docx and .xlsx).
The new update to Office 2007 theoretically can read and write ODF
filetypes, but Microsoft chose to use its own version of the ODF types,
and wherever the specification left anything open to interpretation,
they chose something different than what everybody else is using, so
that doesn't work very well. A better way to let MSO use the ODF
filetypes is by installing the Sun plugin:
http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp
(I'm not sure whether the plugin can read password protected ODF files
-- I haven't seen anything about it, though I would expect it to be OK.)
Of course, any filetype conversion can introduce differences, but in
general you'll only have trouble if you're working with especially
complex documents.
Hope this clarifies things for you!
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