Harold Fuchs <oo_volunteer <at> wolfeden.demon.co.uk> writes: > You must save the document in Word format. Use File>Save As and select > the relevant version (probably "97/2000/XP") of Microsoft Word as the > file type. Also make sure you have "Automatic file name extension" > checked. This will cause your document to be saved in a format that Word > can read. Unfortunately Microsoft Office is currently deficient in that > it cannot read/write ISO (International Standards Organisation) format > documents. Microsoft has committed to rectifying this in the future. > OpenOffice can read/write most Word documents although they are not 100% > compatible, particularly for complex documents. The reason for tihs is > that Microsoft does not publish the inner workings of its format so > other software cannot guarantee to be able to handle all its subtelties. > > Harold Fuchs > London, England >
I believe this has changed with the new Office 2007 suite - all documents will be in OpenXML format (published!), so hopefully future versions of OO can do proper read/writes. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
