Thank you. That seems to have worked.
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Knott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2008 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [users] Converting from MS Word
Dale Rabinovitz wrote:
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
OpenOffice does not yet work with the new Microsoft Office 2007 file
formats. What you can do, is download & install the free Microsoft Word
Viewer and Compatibility Pack from
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/CD102258581033.aspx. This
will allow you to read those .DOCX documents and then cut & paste the
contents into OpenOffice Writer. Installing the Word Viewer will change
your file associations for Word documents, so you'll have to reset them,
as described here:
Changing file associations
Right click on file icon
Select Open With > Choose Program...
Check "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file" and
choose the desired application.
If that method is not available, follow the directions listed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307859
Another method would be to simply uninstall OpenOffice and then
re-install after the Word Viewer has been installed.
Once you have your documents converted, there's no harm in leaving the
Word Viewer installed. It may come in handy, should you receive those
documents from someone else or if you want to see how a Word document
you create will appear in Word.
Incidentally, you've just experienced Microsoft lock-in. They sucker
you into saving your documents in a format that nothing else understands
then then expect you to pay a ransom to get your data back.
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