[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good Morning, > > Yesterday I down loaded OO 2.1. I'm a first time user, and spent several > hours last night doing a number of chapters in the self tutorial. After > many > years of frustration with MS Works/Office and MS WordPad, I was more than > delighted with OpenOffice. A list member on another loop suggested that I > try OO > instead of MS Word, which I was talking about purchasing. I'm glad I went > with OO. > >
I'd suspect the problem can be traced to the formatting in the original document. Press <CTRL>F10 to show non-printing characters. This may indicate the differences between the two sections. > I'll be honest here, I did NOT understand the instructions on the OO site to > save different formats to my OO program. > OpenOffice normally saves a file in the format (.doc, .odt etc.) that it was originally saved in. You can always change to another format, by using "Save as" to select another file type. If you do that, the original document will not be changed. > When you installed OpenOffice, you were asked to make a choice “Select the > file types that OpenOffice.org 2.1 will automatically open”. There were > three > file types shown: > * “Microsoft Word Documents” > * “Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets”, and > * “Microsoft Power Point Presentations” > Thinking I understood what I was doing by checking the above items, chuckle, > how naive of me!! Do I need to go back and UPCHECK the above? If so, where > do I find this?? Those checks only specify which application will open when you double click on a file icon. If checked, OpenOffice will be the default application that opens, otherwise MS Word etc., will open. You can always select which app to use, by right clicking on the icon. Also, you might want to consider obtaining the OpenOffice 2 Guidebook, available from http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2006/04/free_openoffice.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
