Hi, On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Alan Boba wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Carrie Barrett wrote: > >> Hi There - >> >> Even after converting my oo document to a .doc, my potential boss cannot >> open my resume when I email it to him. Any suggestions? >> > Another possibility, no disrespect intended, is that the file was not > actually converted to (saved as) a Word document. If the file was saved as > a Word document by changing the file extension to .DOC then it was not > actually converted just renamed using Word's document naming convention. > > To make certain the file has been "Saved as" a Word document follow the > instructions here... > Saving as a Microsoft Word document > <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Writer_documents#Saving_as_a_Microsoft_Word_document>. > There are only four steps and one illustration. The instructions don't even > take a full page in the web browser. > > The process works regularly for me. I'm on OpenOffice at home and Microsoft > Office at work. At home I've used OOo 2.0 through OOo 2.4 and at work I've > had MS Office XP through Office 2007. I've always been able to read at work > the documents created in OOo as long as I did the "Save as" described above. > > I hope this is helpful.
... in addition - for making these things easier to handle (save as ... export as ... send as ... .odt ... .doc ... .pdf ...) there's a pretty cool extension -> Multidiff by StarXpert "MultiDiff is a tool which enables users to simply and simultaneously issue OpenOffice.org documents in several formats. [...]" <http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo_multidiff> Manfred -- Please *only* reply to [email protected] <http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html> <http://support.openoffice.org/index.html> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
