OpenOffice 2.0 beta or any of the 1.9.xx development versions now support the Open Document Format (or Oasis)
They are also fully compatible with prior versions of Openoffice. If you open a sxw file with the latest OpenOffice, you will be queried if you wish to upgrade to Oasis when saving/closing the file. It will be given a new extension. On 9/21/05, Brenda Ferrell-DiRaddo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had a copy of Open Office I downloaded a couple of years ago. We > recently > upgraded our computer, and the idiot who formatted the new hard drive did > not transfer our personal files. We were able to recover them with some > special software, but now nothing opens. Open Office is also shown as > folder, but I cannot get it to open either. > > > > My question is, if I download a newer version of OO now, will I be able to > open these files that were created on an older version? The file extension > on these is sxw. Thank you for any help you can give. > > Brenda > > > -- My OpenOffice Calc Website http://www.openofficetips.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
