On Saturday, October 21, 2006 8:56 AM [GMT+1=CET], Fred A. Miller <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cathy Thompson wrote:
>> Please excuse if this has already been discussed. I am new to this
>> list.
>> I have Works and design brochures in the word processor application
>> of Works.
>> I want to save the brochures as Word docs. so they can be sent to
>> others who have Word.
>> I was told that OpenOffice will do this but so far I have only
>> gotten error messages when I try and save as Word. I can open my
>> Works file in Oo but the formatting is all screwed up.
>>
>> Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. thanks,
>
> Cathy, Works is an "odd-ball" to be sure. You'll have to "clean up"
> anything from Works and save in the OO native format. Then, you should
> be able to save in the .doc format, but be aware that there's NOT
> compatibliity between varisous M$ Office versions either. Maybe the
> best idea would be for you to save what you "clean up" in OO, the
> export to pdf and send those.
>
> Fred
The only possible difficulty with saving as PDF is that the people to whom you
send the results will *not* be able to edit them. Read/print yes; change no.
I must say though that I thought Works could save in MS Word (".doc") format.
I also found this which might help: http://userful.com/support/ms-works
Harold Fuchs
London, England
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
