On May 8, 2007, at 16:57, CPHennessy wrote:
On Sunday 29 April 2007, David Clark wrote:
My installation of NeoOffice for Mac has NO file associations for all
wordperfect files, and there are about 3G I plan to transfer from an
old Windoze machine.
Is there any danger to doing it this way? Will I be able to transfer
the files back to WP, say an install running under Parallels on the
MacBookPro? Or, can file data be cut/copy/paste to WP with ease?
I can't help much. But maybe http://poorting.openoffice.org/macosx
documentation is of some use.
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There are several issues here.
File associations: Since you have not opened WP files on the Mac and
do not have WP, there is no associated program and the OS X does not
know which program to open the file with. At this point it is easy to
associate
a program with the file type. When you first try to open the file type,
the OS X
will throw up a dialog informing you that it does not have an associated
program to open the file and will ask you what you want to do. It should
offer you the choice of selecting the program to open the file with.
Select
OOo and there should be a check box to make this the default program
to open all such files with. Check the box and then close and all should
be well.
The other issues deal with transferring the files and converting them
from
WP to OOo and then back to WP. I am not familiar with how well OOo reads
all the subtleties of WP files and how well it can save files as WP
files.
Instead I would suggest that once transfered and converted to OOo files,
you save them in the native OOo file format and use OOo on both Mac
OS X and OOo under Parallels running your choice of Windows or
Linux or BSD, etc. The files are compatible across the different OS's
and
under Parallels, you can drag and drop between OS X and Windows XP,
but not between the other OS's and OS X yet.
Ross Bernheim
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