barry watkins wrote:
Follow--up: Today I reinstalled version 1.1.5. With that version,
the problem described below does not occur. I can save documents as
Word or Excel documents and they are indicated as such. The problem
described below occurs with Open Office version 2.1. I uninstalled
2.1 and reinstalled it, but the problem is still there. I am using
Windows XP with a 2-month old HP Pavilion Entertainment PC. Thanks
for your help.
----- Original Message ----- From: barry watkins To:
[email protected] Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 8:15 PM Subject:
saving and emailing documents
Previously, when I used OpenOffice, I could save documents as Word or
Excel documents, and, when I emailed them, they could be opened by
Microsoft Office users. Also, the documents would be saved, and
indicatd as such, as Word and Excel documents. Presently, this does
not occur. The saved document is indicated as a "File" document, and
users of Office cannot open them. These documents are received as
.dat documents that apparently cannot be opened by Office users.
What is going on?
Hi Barry
Have you ensured that the file type is recorded when you save? There is
a box in the File-Save" dialogue which has a checkbox for "Automatic
File Name Extension." If this is not checked there will be no .doc or
.xls etc extension and Windows requires these to identify file type.
Your recipients could just rename the files and add the appropriate
extension if you want to avoid resending the files.
HTH
Russell
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