On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 08:24 -0800, Mark wrote:
> I have a Microsoft Word doc on a usb drive, how do I read it in
> Openoffice 2.0 ? My os is Ubuntu Linux. Thanks

Good question but wrong list. You are asking how to access a file on
your usb key. Sounds like an Ubuntu problem that can possibly be
answered on [email protected] the list for this type of question.

Here are some resources for you:

The users mailing list is read by many, many other users.

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Please also remember that you should always reply to
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There are literally thousands of people participating in the mailing
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There are also additional facilities where you can search for answers. 
Often the question you want to ask has already been raised, and the
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question 
has probably been asked and answered previously : 
  http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/SearchList?listName=users ( note
that 
     you will probably want to change from "search subject" to "search
body")

Many people check out the archives first, and then if they can't find
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relevant 
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 - http://www.ooforum.org : an online help forum;
 - http://OOoDocs.org : extra documentaion;
 - http://OOExtras.org : has templates, artwork, labels, etc
 - http://OOoMacros.org : has extra macros and documentation
 - http://codesnippets.services.openoffice.org : has macro examples 
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