ooffice? or my problem?

[James Knott]

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.
>
>   

Did it solve your problems?


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