Thank you Ms, but it’s time to move on and allow some of the newer talents to bring forth their input to the world of computing. Ms have had their pound of flesh – in fact I believe their pound has turned out to be measured in tonnage. Things of course have moved, and we’re now getting quite a surge of opensource stuff – including Joomla, and I think it’s great… I leaned towards redHat when it first arrived on the scene, but being an oldie, and not particularly computer savvy, I decided against install on the grounds that I couldn’t possibly understand what I was supposed to do… I certainly didn’t know about OpenOffice Writer and am very pleased to hear of its existance. Great, and here we go – opensource stuff… I think you’ll find it’s a reasonable alternative, and of course, you certainly can’t beat the price. You can change that to Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) (you may have to scroll up in the list to find it) and now you’ll save your. You should be looking at something like this: Under Always save as you’ll find pretty much the same list. So the short answer is that as long as you save your documents in Microsoft Word format you should be able to exchange them with others without much trouble. In Writer, click on Tools, Options, expand the Load/Save branch, and click on General. You can change that to “Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc)” (you may have to scroll up in the list to find it) and now you’ll save your documents in Microsoft Word format by default. Under “Always save as” you’ll find pretty much the same list. Converting documents from OpenOffice’s ODT format to Microsoft Word. You should be looking at something like this: Or you could bite the bullet and just pay Microsoft the money. This method of making a new file often loses the peculiarities. In Writer, click on Tools, Options, expand the Load/Save branch, and click on General. The best course you can take is to open a new Writer file in OpenOffice, open the former doc file, then Ctrl A, Ctrl C, switch to the new file and Ctrl V. ![]() You can also make this the default save type if you like. Whether you need to create a document, a chart, a slideshow, a diagram or a report, you can find the right application in OpenOffice. You can see I’ve circled one that you’ll probably find interesting: “Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc)”. Apache OpenOffice is a free and open source productivity suite that offers you powerful tools for word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing and database. This is a list of the file types which Writer 4.1.2 can open. doc files (Word 6, Word 95, Word 97/2000/XP) even though all are called. However, if you click on the down arrow and drop-down the list, you’ll see there are many other alternatives: Remember too that there are several different types of. ![]() In fact, if you do a File, Save As… you’ll see:Īs you can see, the “Save As Type” is listed. ![]() OpenOffice Writer, the Microsoft Word equivalent, saves its documents in “Open Document Text” or “.odt” format. “I think you need to give OpenOffice Writer a little bit more of a chance.”
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