IT Queries: Computer problems answered

In your other site, 101 Free Business Ideas, you mention Open Office. I’ve installed it but I’m finding my friends can’t open the documents I send them. How do I set Open Office up so Microsoft Word can read what I create in Writer?

Open Office uses its own formats which Microsoft Word doesn’t recognise. You can fix this with a setting in Open Office.

Launch Open Office and create a new Writer document, then select Tools, then Options in the menu.

Once in the Options screen, select Load/Save the General from the menu on the left. In the Load/Save – General screen you’ll find towards the bottom the Default File Format in the options there select text document as the document type and Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP under Always Save As.

This will save the document in a format that most versions of Microsoft Office can read, although keep in mind that there are some advanced features in each program that won’t work on the other.

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