[Charlug] need help with wording....

[McCaffrey, Ennis]

Sun has an ODF to M$ Office conversion program, which allows M$ Office
to open ODF docs.

I have it on my work machine, it is slow, but it does work. 

It is freely available via the Sun website.

Thought I'd throw that in.

Ennis

-----Original Message-----
From: charlug-bounces at charlug.org [mailto:charlug-bounces at charlug.org]
On Behalf Of Doug Pyatt
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 1:14 PM
To: Kevin
Cc: charlug at charlug.org
Subject: Re: [Charlug] need help with wording....

We can use Wordpad on the windows computers to see the content - I am
just trying to get people to switch or send in a friendly format so we
don't have to work around the problem.

I guess I just cant understand those who upgrade Microsoft just to get
the latest and greatest - when they don't even use a fraction of what
they had to start with.

When I switched everyone to openoffice at work - you would not believe
the crying - 
Most of them just wanted MS just to have MS.  They would tell me a
function that they could do in MS but not find in OpenOffice - I would
as what the keystroke was (of course they did not know it) - I would
tell them it was the same keystroke - LOOK IT UP.   

As you can tell - I don't want to give anyone a reason why we cant use
openoffice - and this might happen if we don't solve the problem of
documents that are sent into us in a proprietary format.

Doug

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin" <kjsisson at bellsouth.net>
To: "Doug Pyatt" <dpyatt at carolina.rr.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 10:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Charlug] need help with wording....


Doug Pyatt wrote:
> The last docment we got pulled into openoffice had two empty text
boxes - could not see the text at all.  With Wordpad - we were able to
read the words (and MS Word 2000) but the formating was shoved left
instead of being centered in the page (we had them fax it to us).
> 
> Thanks
> Doug
> 
> 


I don't know if this will help, but I had a similar problem with the 
newer versions of Word Perfect. A document created with an older WP had 
pictures in boxes. When I opened the document in a newer WP (the 
versions weren't that different; something like 6.1 old and 7 or 
whatever the next version was called), the box outline was there, but no

contents. However, if I saved the document in the newer format and then 
reopened it, the box contents were there, but the format was messed up. 
If this works with your software, could you save the text box contents 
from the 'messed up' format version and paste into the 'good format' 
version?

Kevin
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