Open Office question

[bigalt]

Not used Open Office for a good while but when I was you could set up the default file to save as Office format. Not too sure about the latest version of Office though.

 

[Corny]

It will work with *most* MS Office documents.
(documents utilizing some rare functions or complex macros probably will not work)

 

[Inwood]

It will work with *most* MS Office documents.
(documents utilizing some rare functions or complex macros probably will not work)

This is true and I've also found that some formatting gets lost on complex Word docs. For the most part it works really well, though.

 

[mike_n_herrin]

I like it, i've found it to be quite good with MS office documents.

 

[trawler69]

I use it and Neo Office on the Mac. I would say it is 90 or more % compatible. I prefer Neo Office for Excel docs as it has the "contains" filter which open office doesn't as far as I recall.

 

[looseliam]

It works with office 2003 compatible documents. Ones ending in x (docx, xlsx) won't open.

So if someone is sending you a file, make sure they save it to the older version if they're using 2007.

 

[sabei0990]

Yes. If you want to make a document to use with word open OpenOffice Writer and Save As Word. I suggest saving it as a few different things: Word Xp; Word 95/98/ME/XP. They have many options. If you know your exact Word Possessor you should be fine.
If you want to make a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation open OpenOffice Impress and Save As Microsoft PowerPoint or which ever specific processor you expect to use.

Any more questions pm me.

 

[Corny]

OpenOffice has no antialiasing, that's why the fonts are blurry. this will be fixed in the next version. also the next version does not use x11 .. or wait .. this was supposed to be changed already in the actual release. where did you download it? is your mac os version current?

 

[Corny]

I looked it up - since 3.0 openoffice for mac should use aqua and not x11