-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------- Original Message -------- From: Dale Rabinovitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon 11 Feb 2008 03:02:28 EST
| Hello, | | I'm not used to using mailing lists and I thought that I already sent | this one already, but I'll give it another go. | | I had a trial version of MS Word 2007 that came with my new computer | last September. I started using it and forgot it was just a trial | version. Well, the time expired without even a warning ahead of time | to let me know of things to come. So now I'm stuck with these Word | documents that I can't use. I could pay for thee full version and | continue to use it, but I wanted to see if there were any | alternatives first. I really didn't want to pay $150. If I could've | converted these to an older version of Word or even to WordPad format | that would've been fine. I told my dilemma to someone where I work | and he told me about this Open Office that I could use. What I | really liked about it was that it works just like MS Word 2007 and I | could even convert my current Word documents to use with it. It | sounded like just what I needed. I downloaded Open Office and then | tried to use it to convert my Word documents. It didn't work. It | looked like the latest version of Word in the list of document types | to convert from was MS Word 2000. So can anyone help me? Is there a | version of Open Office that will recognize MS Word 2007, or should I | abandon all hope? | | Thank You, | Dale As an alternative to James's suggestion, you might consider downloading and installing the enhanced version of OOo (OpenOffice.org) called "Oxygen Office Professional". This is still OOo, but this edition includes a number of extras and enhancements, one of them being the ability to open MS Word 2007 ".docx" files. The conversion is not 100% perfect, but then neither is Microsoft's own Compatibility Pack for earlier versions of Word [1]. Oxygen Office Professional can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop It is a fairly large download (approx. twice the size of the "official" edition) and you will need to completely uninstall your current version of OOo before you install Oxygen Office Professional. [1] http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100444731033.aspx Hope this helps. Dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHr2oc7asJm/pW/p8RAvUlAJ9p7MH0MmEanhjkdc801h42jG3nCQCfSGa6 rGMPyHrFG9ltVk/OPPx4mVc= =GWSM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
