NOOOOOOO.... Sorry for shouting, but no. Donna's daughter does not need to save in one of the .doc formats - she has saved her file in ISO26300 format, which OpenOffice has, sensibly, made its default. Microsoft's failure to support this international standard is a failing of Microsoft not a failing of OpenOffice; the best option for Donna is to also install OpenOffice, the Sun plugin for MS Office, use Google Docs or some other application that supports standards.
----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected], "donna martinello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 10:14:37 PM (GMT) Europe/London Subject: Re: [users] doc will not open in MS word On Sunday 26 August 2007 08:27:40 pm Donna wrote: > Hello, > > > > My daughter has a new computer at college and I couldn't afford to buy MS > Office for her so I told her to download your office suite. She emailed me > her first document as an attachment to read and it will not open in MS word > (which I have on my computer). Is there anyway to read this? She needs to save the files as Microsoft format. she can set OpenOffice.org to always do that go to Tools > Options > Load/Save > General. She can also do SaveAs and select the files of type at the bottom and select the Microsoft 97/2000/2003 format. OpenOffice.org can read, write and save to Microsoft format but Microsoft chooses not to read, write or save to OpenOffice.org. -- http://24.197.142.167/ See the OpenOffice.org FAQ Microsoft users go to http://www.pclinuxos.com for a great user friendly Linux experience! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://openarchaeology.net/iso26300 for more information. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
