[PLUG] Best File Format for OOo Writer <=> MS Word Collaboration?

Michael M. Moore moore.michael.m at gmail.com
Thu Feb 2 21:15:54 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Richard C. Steffens <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Richard England<rlengland at frontier.com>  wrote:
>> Interesting. I was just corresponding this morning with a new Ubuntu
>> user who was telling me that she couldn't find the option to save in
>> *.doc format in LibreOffice. I wonder if Ubuntu's version is behind
>> Fedora and doesn't have that capability, or if she just couldn't find
>> where to do it? (I don't know her well, but I get the distinct
>> impression her computer skills are not highly developed.) I suggested
>> to her she might check into installing OpenOffice.org, but perhaps
>> that isn't necessary.
>
> Could she have been thinking it would be an export type of function
> under the File menu?

Thanks, Dick.  I told her where I thought it would be, based on where
it is in OpenOffice, and what you're describing sounds like a very
similar location.  I'll pass along your description and see if that
helps her.

Michael



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