On Nov 15, 2007 7:39 AM, James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Boba wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2007 9:56 AM, Burney, Lance A CTR CID Corry Station <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Sir or Ma'am, > > I am thinking of making a purchase of a computer as a gift for a family > memebr that includes your Open Office Software. I was wondering before > I purchase however if one can open Word Docs and other word processor > docs with your program? > > Yes it opens Word documents and quite a few other word processor formats. > > > The only potential hitch is that files saved with the newest version of > Word, Word 97,cannot yet be read by OpenOffice if the file is saved in Word > 97's new format. > > > > Ummm... I think you're about 10 years off. It's Office 2007 that's > causing the problem. > > -- > [image: Use OpenOffice.org] <http://www.openoffice.org> >
Yup, my bad. Jonathan already caught the error and alerted me. The OP isn't subscribed to the list and I sent notice to the original email address advising of the error.
