Thank you, James, for your very curteous reply. I received a rude obnoxious reply from someone else at OpenOffice to the same question you answered here very nicely. Thanks again... Linda Camp
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Knott" To: [email protected], "Linda Camp" Subject: Re: [users] Publishing from Open Office Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:18:32 -0400 Linda Camp wrote: > Thank you, James. So you're telling me that Open Office has a list of > software and I just select the one that the publisher prefers? I kinda > thought this would be how it works but wasn't sure Open Office included > the most popular word processing software used by publishers. Does it > also include Quark? Or is this a dumb question? Linda Camp > It doesn't include other software, it includes the appropriate filters for the various file formats. So, for example, you could chose Word format and OpenOffice will save in that format. You appear to be confusing file format with the application. OpenOffice, like many other word processors can save in Word format. It also saves, by default in the ISO standard ODF formats. It's simply a choice of what format you wish to use. Over the years, the various word processors have had their own proprietary formats. In many cases, competitive products would try to support the main ones. Now, there is the ISO standard Open Document Format, which is available to all and many applications support it. Microsoft, however refuses to support it, primarily because they're trying to use format "lock in" to force people to buy their products. -- Use OpenOffice.org -- Want an e-mail address like mine? Get a free e-mail account today at www.mail.com!
