It should be easy to record a macro to back up all saved documents in OOO format when you save them as MS documents. There may already be one available.
I do this with a of of my files anyway. There are certain formatting features I like in OOO that are not available in MS. Rather than PDF the file so I cannot edit it, I save in both formats so I can use it in whatever program I happen to be using. Roxann Milby Wing B Office Admin -----Original Message----- From: Kira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 6:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [users] Re: [Spam] [users] OpenOffice documents compatibility with MS office environment, and reciprocally Ross Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 09:14 -0600, Thomas W. Cranston wrote: >> 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). Okay, this brings up a question which is a curiosity for me but may be vital to others: if you are using OOo in a primarily MS Office environment, as the OP seems to be planning to, what is the best way to translate documents back and forth? In such an environment, you would be constantly getting MS Office documents, working on them in OOo, and then saving them to return to a person using MS Office again. I haven't experimented much with this, but Ross's answer suggests that it might be best to save an incoming MS Office document as its corresponding OOo format, work on it, save it in its native OOo format, then save it again as its corresponding MS Office type before handing it off (or back) to the next person who needs it. Does that method work okay? Hoping the answer helps someone, Kira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
