On Fri November 17 2006 16:31, + Josh wrote: > [ MODERATED ] ******************** > Dear Sir or Madam; > > I use Microsoft Office. Someone sent me a file with the extention .ods. > Is there anyway of using my Office program to open your ods file?
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Sat November 18 2006 01:40, Adrian Try wrote: > > Not yet. > > ods files are OpenDocument spreadsheet files. The OpenDocument formats are > new worldwide standards for saving office documents. They became ISO > standards earlier this year, so it's all quite new. OpenOffice.org and > others are supporting these standards. Microsoft is making addons > available. > > There is an addon available for Microsoft Word that will allow you to open > OpenDocument word processing files. It is available from > http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter. An addon for spreadsheets > should be available in the future. > > In the meantime, you have two choices: > > 1. Install OpenOffice.org. It is free of charge, and can happily live > alongside Microsoft Office on your computer. Please ask if you have > questions about this. > > 2. Contact your friend, and ask them to save the document as an Excel > document and send that to you. The easiest way for them to do that is File > / Send / Email as Microsoft Excel. > > 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]
