On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 09:14 -0600, Thomas W. Cranston wrote: > Amélie Dumoulin wrote: > > Hello All > > > > I am all in favor of an alternative software to Microsoft Office suite. > > However, before I download OpenOffice software, I'd like to know > > 1. when I open documents I've previously created with Microsoft Office in > > OpenOffice, does the formating go pearshaped? > > 2. reciprocally, when I save my OpenOffice Documents as Microsoft Office > > docs, and send them to people who will open them with Microsoft Office > > software, will the format of my docs be absolutely identical to the format > > it used to have when I created them in Open Office? > > If you can assure me that everything will be alright, I'll sign up with joy! > > I really am sorry but I haven't got the development knowledge to tweak the > > OpenOffice software myself to make sure these problems don't happen-) > > In any case, keep up the good work, many thanks for everything > > Amelie > > > > > I have had a lot of grief using open office to open MS Word documents. > My experience is that when the MS Word documents that have been opened > by OO, they become jumbled after being opened again by MS Word.
Only if you open them in OOo and then save them again as MS Word format. Don't do that! OOo warns you when you try to save document opened from a foreign format and offers to save it in the OOo format. Please read the warning carefully. If you save using the OOo format your original will be left unchanged. The warning is fairly long, and (from memory) I think the safety action requires a 'No' answer (a negative response, which I think is unintuitive - but then my opinions often contradict common sense). > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
