Re: [users] Microsoft office 2007

[James Knott]

Barbara Northrup wrote: Thank you so much.  I am recommending to everyone I know without an office suite to download openoffice.  I want to make sure I am doing the right thing so everything works .  I appreciate your help and will follow your suggestion.   Barbara You don't have to restrict yourself to only those without an office suite.  Tell everyone!  ;-) Incidentally, you may be interested in the version from portableapps.com.  It installs on a portable USB connected drive, so you can use OpenOffice on any computer running Windows, even if OpenOffice is not installed.   From: James Knott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:54 PM To: users@openoffice.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [users] Microsoft office 2007   Barbara Northrup wrote: I just downloaded openoffice and am delighted with it.  Wish I found it sooner.  I am not able to open a Microsoft Office 2007 excel doc with my openoffice calc software.  Do I need to do something extra?      Microsoft Office 2007 defaults to new file formats that are incompatible with everything else.  You'll have to save those files in the old .XLS format. --