can you help me. I want to use doc. files or word rather than openoffice. How do i change back?
--- On Sun, 6/20/10, Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dotan Cohen <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [users] Re: Writer features disabled in .doc format > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, June 20, 2010, 2:40 PM > On 15 June 2010 00:55, NoOp <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On 06/14/2010 01:16 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > ... > >> No need to keep googling, Gary, I can take it from > here! Though my > >> skills must be weak, I did not find that bug > report. Do you remember > >> on what terms you searched? This is far from the > first time that > >> you've found the things that I should have found > myself! > >> > > > > I honestly can't recall; I _think_ I was searching > (OOo search) on > > 'versioning +word or +doc'. > > > > Versioning in Word97 is the same menu structure: > File|Versions. The > > change tracking is carried over between the documents, > but the > > 'versions' are not. In OOo Help: versions;file saving > as, restriction > > there is an ! warning which states: > > > > <quote> > > Versions > > Saves and organizes multiple versions of the current > document in the > > same file. You can also open, delete, and compare > previous versions. > > > > To access this command... > > Choose File - Versions > > > > If you save a copy of a file that contains version > information (by > > choosing File - Save As), the version information is > not saved with the > > file. > > </quote> > > > > I just tested the same in Word97; if I use File|SaveAs > the 'Versions' > > option is available on the SaveAs dialog, as long as I > don't change from > > the .doc format. However, if I use File|SaveAs and > save the document as > > a WordPerfect (.wps) document, the File|Versions is > greyed out just as > > it is in OOo. So, apparently MS Word (at least Word97) > also does not > > support versioning with non-native document formats. I > can test in > > Word2K and Word2007 later. > > > > BTW: This might be of interest: > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Track_changes > > > > Thanks, Gary. The issue was not a deal breaker and we have > yet another > lab (well, half a lab) on Open Office! > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
