I noticed there is no way to convert a open office word document to a ms office word document. I tired using the built in converter on open office and still no use. I always open up the converted document in ms office and see my text crunched and my margins fucked up. I have even used that as a reason to go back to windows after going to linux. Anyway, is there another converter I can use, or word program, that will able to convert ms document to open office and open office to ms without any of the content being screwed? I have been searching and found nothing. I have even tried to install ms office using wine but wine just crashes when I tried install ms office xp and ms office 97 (I am not touching ms office 2007).
Couldn't you save and work on your documents in Word format while in Open Office?
Have you tried another format that they both do well?
Or you could come back to the Dark Side.
Nah, i believe his point is that the format of the text itself is not very well supported... by MS Office. Anyways, open document is the standard, so actually ANYONE in the world should be able to open your documents in odt. Unless they are using ONLY MS office, which is a very unwise decision.
Tell us, who are you sending those documents?
I use these document mostly in writing papers for school or work. Most of the school uses mainly MS office and I need to use the print service they have and send paper to teachers (ever teacher only uses MS office). I haven't found Open office run on any other computer except my own. I guess I can just get a printer for my computer but I don't know what to do if I have to send it to a teacher.
You could just save it as a ms file to begin with. Or save as .txt or .html
Someone had a plugin for MS Office to open standard ODF files, you could probably Google for it.
Wow, my Uni is the exact opposite: it encourages the download of OpenOffice and uses it on its thousands of computers.
Most universities do encourage use of open software.
Hell, when we had to submit documents for university we had to do it in PostScript which we generated from LaTeX. These kids who get to use a WYGIWYG editor... seriously.
nice typo by me. d'oh. What you get is what you get!
>>1
In case you're handing in assignments and stuff, can't you just export to PDF? Pretty much everyone has the reader installed.
That's not the solution for everything, but maybe it could make life a little easier at least.
(In case this is a problem, just explain that Word costs so-and-so amount of money; you don't have it; and is PDF or paper preferable?)
Or there is always the tried and tested plain text format.
File -> Save As... -> Microsoft Word 97-2003 .doc (in the drop down menu underneath where you type your file name).
If your school still can't open it, your school deserves no work from its pupils.
>>12
lol it's true
.RTF FTW
Or you could save it as .pdf - your school should be able to read this, and formatting is not an issue with this format.
Also, you could use Google Documents (or another online editing tool if there is one) to open your .odt files from wherever you are (provided they are not too huge).