On Sat, 10 May 2008 21:58:37 +0000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a relatively new Open Office user, and, so far, I've been able to > figure most things out. Now that MS Word has a version 7,
MS Word Version seven was AFAIK Word97. Word 2007 (office version twelve) and the new Word 2008 should not be confused with Version seven. > and, I suppose, a verson for Vista, as has OpenOffice.org > I'm a bit stumped. Is there something I > need to download in Open Office so that I can open files created in > the newer versions of MS Word? Is this also going to happen with the > spreadsheet and presentation programs? > People should not be using the Office 2007 file formats. They are generally not readable by many existing Microsoft Office users. Also they are orphan formats: http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2031 Office 2007 save formats do not conform to the ISO OOXML spec which itself has not been released yet: http://www.griffinbrown.co.uk/blog/PermaLink,guid,3e2202cd-59a3-4356-8f30-b8eb79735e1a.aspx If the above link breaks due to word-wrap try this one to the same article: http://tinyurl.com/3kdfgt The upshot is the "official" Microsoft save format OOXML is in flux and not released in its final corrected version yet. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
