Dan Lewis wrote:
On Monday October 1 2007 05:01 am, Irene Kennedy wrote:
I have happily used open office 2 in preference to microsoft stuff but
suddenly it's changed. I could, until a couple of week's ago, save
documents as open office or as microsoft, so that I could send them to
other people. open office saved a copy as an open office document and
another as a microsoft document, and allowed the same name. Now it's
gone completely haywire. it refuses to save in 2 formats and insists on
saving only one copy. It then asks me each time which programme I want
to open the document with. these documents are proving impossible to
send to other people and I now face the daunting task of retyping
hundreds and hundreds of documents if I want to share them. I also will
not be able to work on any of these documents on the University computer
unless I also retype them. What is going on?
Irene x
The first time you save a file, the Save As window opens. Near the
middle of the bottom of that window is a box labeled Automatic file name
extension. Most likely, that you accidentally unchecked that box.
What happens if you manually add the correct file name extension to one
of these files?
Dan
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For your own files you may want to install the portable apps version on
a flash drive, www.portableapps.com. This way you will be using you own
version at school and will not have compatibility issues with saving in
Microsoft format etc. I teach part-time at a local college and do all
my presentations using OO Impress on the flash drive with portable apps.
Previously my screens were frequently displayed without a graphics
insert, spilling off the bottom of the screen, etc. Now they just plain
work. Portable Apps is another free GNU licensed project. When you
need to send a file to a colleague just save that file in a Microsoft
format, after saving the oo format, and they will be able to open it.
There may be problems with what they see opening it is a Microsoft
application since Microsoft always has issues going from one version to
another with anything but a text file.
James
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