opening odt file in Word or WordPerfect
Hello everyone -
I am new to Star Office, and its products. I have the Star products on my home computer, and am working on an 8-page paper. I thought I'd send it by email to my work computer, to work on the paper during my lunch hour this week. My work computer has Microsoft software on it. Can I open the odt file in Microsoft Word or Corel Wordperfect? I have tried it, and there are so many formats I could use to open it (i.e. ASCII, Word, etc). However, with each format I've tried, all that is shown in the document is gobble-dee-gook and is unreadable.
Is the odt file not readable for other word processing software?
Thank you, in advance, for any help.
Denise
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DeniseSl] at [2007-11-26 11:56:18]
# 2
Hi there, Thanks for posting the question. I will try and explain and show you the options available.
ODT is an 'open' format (e.g. not locked down to one company owning the format), at the moment Word can not read or write this format, but DONT worry!
You have a couple of options here... On your works computer you could install "OpenOffice" this is a free of charge version of Star Office and has the same functionality.
If you need the document mega urgently and it is not confidential and you are not able to use OpenOffice in work let me know and if you send me the file privately I will open it and save it to a word format for you.
For future...
When you are creating a document on Star/Open Office save it as a .doc format!! This way you will be able to open it in word, save it and re-open it in StarOffice.
Hope this helps!
# 3
thanks, Dox and Doozer -
Your replies have helped. I'll save it as a .doc file tonight after work, and then send it to my work computer. I cannot save a program to the work computer; the 'powers that be' will not allow that.
I've got some changes/additions to make to the paper anyway - and I'm doing it the old fashioned way: by pencil/pen.
Again, thanks for your help.
Denise
