ooffice? or my problem?

[Zbigniew Koziol]

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Jamon Camisso
<jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>  > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:05 PM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  >> Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>  >>  > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:38 PM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  >>  >
>  >>  >> Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>  >>  >>  > I had version 2.0 installed. Now, I installed the newest version, 2.3.
>  >>  >>  > something. And I still can not save document in MSWord format! I have
>  >>  >>  > simply no that option to choose from. The document is always saved in
>  >>  >>  > oo format.
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > And, at work, I have a version of oo 1.something. When I open at work
>  >>  >>  > the document saved by oo version 2.something, I get a blank empty
>  >>  >>  > page.
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > And dont tell me also that OO is going to replace MS Office. The
>  >>  >>  > trouble I experienced when upgrading from version 2 to 2.3 proves that
>  >>  >>  > it never ever is going to happen.
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  > These big shi*s like Sun will rather always create troyans, and be not
>  >>  >>  > interested in doing thing properly for Linux.
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>  >
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >>  When you select "Save as", do you not see a drop down list for file type?
>  >>  >>
>  >>  >
>  >>  > I had that list. It lists only a few file formats, 4 or 5. Nothing
>  >>  > related to MS.
>  >>  >
>  >>  >
>  >>
>  >>  What Linux distro are you running?  Did you use the version that came
>  >>  with it?  Or did you download from www.openoffice.org?  I have always
>  >>  been able to save in Word format and have never seen a time when I couldn't.
>  >
>  > I am on CentOS 5, which is basically the same as the latest Red Hat
>  > Enterprise version. There I had OO version 2 installed. Since however
>  > it did not produce MS format, I though that i will installed the
>  > latest version of OO, and I did that by downloading version 2.3 from
>  > OO web site.
>
>  Are you creating a new Text Document? Other types of documents won't let
>  you save as .doc (e.g. Master Document).

Great advise.

I got around the problem. I found out an old Word 6 document, opened
it, and opened the document that i wanted to convert. So I copy and
paste the new document over Word 6 version and saved it under a
different name. Seems to work.

But does that make sense? Is average Joe going to be able to figure
out that such a trick is possible?

zb.

>
>  Jamon
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