Re your questions, I had already answered your first one in the second
sentence of my original e-mail: yes, I saved the Writer document in
Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP format.
Re your second question: I think yes, it was checked for automatic file name
extension as the extension was added to the file name.
Nonetheless, I could not open the document in my MS Word 2001 for Mac --
although I regularly open Word documents from Windows machines on this Mac.
Re the slide show file -- I do not know if it was saved for Microsoft
PowerPoint, probably was set as your default. I expect whatever the solution
for the Writer document -- and it is not that it was not formatted properly
to be opened in Word -- will be the same for the PowerPoint issue.
Please don't forget my last question: is there any way to set the Save
function to automatically default to MS Word for Win ME-2000-XP -- as it is
a pain in the neck to try to remember that each and every time.
----Original Message Follows----
From: Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: "me 1004" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [users] Open Office compatibility with MS Office for Mac
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:22:55 -0500
On Tuesday June 19 2007 1:38 pm, me 1004 wrote:
> My friend is using your current Open Office. Yesterday, we
> discovered the files from it do NOT seem to be compatible with MS
> Office 2001 for Mac -- and possibly not with any MS Office.
>
> Yes, we saved the Writer file as MS Word for Win ME-2000-XP -- but
> the file still could not be opened in MS Word 2001 for Mac.
>
> We also tried opening a Open Office Presentations file in MS
> PowerPoint 2001 for Mac, but it would not open.
>
> What is wrong, what can we do? Is this incompatibiilty also
> happening on Windows machines? MS Office for both Mac and Windows
> are supposed to open the same formats, so I have to think if we
> can't open these files in the Mac version, we also won't be able to
> open them in the Windows version.
>
> Lastly, is there any way to set the Save function to automatically
> default to MS Word for Win ME-2000-XP -- as it is a pain in the
> neck to try to remember that each and every time.
>
> Thank you.
How did you try to save the file? Did you make sure that for
documents the File type was Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) and for
slide shows the File type was Microsoft PowerPoint 97/2000/XP (.ppt)?
Was the little box labeled "Automatic file name extension" checked at
the bottom of the Save As window?
Dan
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