Den 2006-05-18 01:26:45 skrev Keith Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Wed, 17 May 2006 18:26:11 EDT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have Windows XP.
My OpenOffice Writer documents can't be opened by Microsoft Word
users. Is there a way to make MS Word read OpenOffice Writer?
At this stage MS Word cannot open Open Office format files, although i
suspect change will be coming. However OO can read and write MS formats.
Two options:
1. Save your Open Office documents that you want to send to others as
MS Word files or RTF files.
2. Get the people who you send documents to to download OO (or burn a
copy to CD and give it to them)
Yes, that's probably the best way (point 2). I have been doing some work
lately for a company (finished today actually) and I'll give them 4 files
on a CD: SMK.sxw (I use OOo 1.1.5 due to a slow computer, I will upgrade
to 2.0 as soon I get another one), SMK.doc, SMK.pdf and ReadMe.doc.
I realize right in this very second att I should have save the ReadMe file
in pdf format instead, but this will do too. The readMe file contains
information about the different file types, what they are good for (they
are MS Office Users, surprise surprise...) and I also gave a link to the
OpenOffice.org site where they can download OpenOffice if they WANT to. I
also tell them (in the ReadMe file) that the Open Office file is the
original file, so the Word file will look slightly different (I edited the
Word file manually in Word XP on my girlfriends laptop, which was a huge
job since almost nothing looked right).
When editing the Word file in Word, I found another couple of reasons to
never go back to Word. It's just not as versatile for me as OpenOffice is
(and I am still talking about 1.1.5!). I can mention two examples right
now:
Tables:
In Open Office I managed to fit a big table on one page. Some cells
contains two rows and there is not much "air" to the bottom and the top of
the cell. Maybe there is 0.1 mm to the upper border line and the same
distance to the lower border line. In Word, the distance to the upper line
is maybe 1 mm and I just couldn't make that less! I looked in the cell
settings and it was already set to 0 mm! I didn't try to make a NEW table
from scratch, so maybe I had this problem because of the OOo Writer -> MS
Word conversion? So I just had to leave the file as it was, with the
second line only half visible.
Table of contents:
The table of contents from conversion to Word from Writer was not useable
at all. It is a two level TOC and the page numbers of the second level
wasn't adjusted to the right correctly. I just had to make a new one. That
was not much of trouble anyway, but I couldn't make it look like the
original Open Office one.
In Writer I can do font settings for each individual field and level. For
example I can set the Title text to bold, the dots between the title and
the page number to normal and the page number to bold italic, or I can
sett different fonts and sizes. In Word I could only do that for levels,
but I guess I just missed something there. I just couldn't find out how to
do that in Word. I could set level 1 entries to bold and level 2 entries
to normal and things like that, but not individual fields.
Are there any Word users out there who can confirm or deny this? And maybe
tell me how to make it work in Word... Could be useful for me to know if I
have to do something like this again in the future... Yes, I know it is
way out of topic, sorry for that. I just wanted to point out that I found
another couple of reasons to stick with Open Office when I had to do some
work in Word (which I used a lot a couple of years ago, before downloading
Open Office the first time).
I just wish I had a faster computer so I could run OOo 2, just like the
rest of you.
Best regards
--
Johnny
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