GK Irish schreef:
Hello OpenOffice,
I thought that the OpenOffice.org program was compatible with Microsoft
Office products? My daughter wrote a report using OpenOffice.org and we saved
it to a USB Flash drive.. we then took it to my work computer to print it out..
I used Microsoft Office and tried opening the document we saved with
OpenOffice.org with Microsoft Word.. but it could'nt read/convert the text of
the document saved with OpenOffice.org.. Can Microsoft Word not read OpenOffice
documents (or vesa versa)? The document saved with OpenOffice.org had an
extension of .odt or .otd. Anyway.. does something special have to be done for
these two products to be able to read each others documents, files, etc...?
Thanks
Hi Mister Irish,
OpenOffice.org is compatible with the Microsoft file formats, but that
doesn't mean the Microsoft products are compatible with the (superior)
file formats of OOo.
If you want to save a file and then open it again with Microsoft
products you have to do a Save As and then select the version of MS that
you want to save as.
It's not that it would be hard for Microsoft to become compatible with
the OpenDocument file formats. It's a fully open standard and there are
many programs that use it as their native file format. Microsoft
deliberately chooses not to be compatible with the OpenDocument file
formats. It's their loss. Of course they have their reasons not to want
to implement the open standard... giant profit margins melting away is
one that immediately comes to mind.
Cheers and happy OpenOfficing, it's the way of the future,
Jo
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