On Thursday 02 August 2007, + Eli Penberthy wrote:
> Whenever I try to save a document that I am working on in
> openoffice.orgwriter as a Word document, it saves it as another unkown
> type. This is a
> problem when I email the document as an attachment, because the recipient
> can never open it.

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On Tuesday 07 August 2007, russbucket wrote:
>
> How are you saving it? are you just using save? If so it will by default
> save it as an Open Text Document (.odt). You need to do save as and then
> change the file type to .doc or if you have the converter for the new
> Office2007 installed as a .docx You don't say what OS you have. The
> converter I mentioned is for SUSE Linux. Older version of Office cannot
> handle the new .docx format as far as I know.  The othe problem is MS does
> not follow the standards which are .odt.
>
> Hope this helps.


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