Mary Beth Holzwarth wrote:
Hi! I installed the 2.2 version and then updated for the 2.4. I was a little frustrated
when told it was free and then had to pay but that's neither here nor there. When I
downloaded it, it asked if I would like Open Office to access my other documents and I
selected yes, or however it was worded. I have not been able to open anything from my
Microsoft Office documents. My computer came with Microsoft Office, but when I ordered
it, they neglected to inform me that it was all trial versions until one day when I was
unable to do anymore work. So now I have a whole bunch of very important documents that
I can't do anything with. I was told that Open Office would be able to carry those over
to it's program and I could still work with them. Is this just a, "well, you only
paid $30 for something so you get what you paid for" as I can't afford a $300
version of Microsoft Office, or is it simply Operator error? : ) I really need these
documents so I can print them and work with them. Any help you could give me would be
great. If I could get a phone call from a real person that would be better. Thank you
all so much for putting up with the computer illiterate. Thanks again and God bless!
Hello Mary Beth,
Hmmm- there are couple of issues here.
Important ones first. Your documents. The answer as to whether
OpenOffice.org can open them and work with them depends on the version
of Microsoft Office (MSO) that you created them with. If you used MSO
2007 and saved them in the 2007 file formats, then the current version
of OpenOffice.org does not work with them. Actually let me more precise
- the version that you normally find will not. There will be a certain
amount of support for the MSO 2007 file formats in the next major
release of OpenOffice.org but that is a number of months away.
So - if you have this problem there is a couple of things you can do.
1- you can go to the Microsoft web site and find their free "Viewer"
programs. This allows you to open those files in read-only mode, but you
can copy the contents to the clipboard. Once you copy it you can use
OpenOffice.org to create a new file, paste the data in and then save the
file either in the native ODF file format used by OpenOffice.org or as
.doc file, the older MS Word format. ( The same basic thing goes for
Excel files ) I would recommend this option.
2 - You could try one of the variants of the openoffice.org available.
Novell offers one that will work with some of the new MS Office file
formats.
OK - the other item to mention. OpenOffice.org is truly a free program
and one that once you have it you can do pretty much anything you want
with it. You can give it away to others, you can create CDs and sell
them or you could ( and some do ) sell a link to a place to download it
from. That last option is IMO not very nice...but at the moment there is
no way to stop people from doing it.
You can always find the free version of the application at the main web
site http://www.openoffice.org, available for download.
I hope that helps.
One last thing - this is a mailing list that is available to anyone on
the internet...you really should refrain from putting up your phone number.
Sincerely,
Drew
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