On Tue March 7 2006 18:09, + GK Irish wrote: > [ MODERATED ] ******************** > 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)? Correct MSOffice refuses to understand OpenOffice.org file formats even though these formats are well known and documented.
However OpenOffice.org can save your documents in the relevant MSOffice file format. "File" -> "Save As" -> "File type" -> "Microsoft ....." should work. > 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...? Not much, just use File -> "Save As". Please reply to [email protected] only -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
