Lowell Deeds

You live and learn,,,boy is that true. Last Wednesday my blog entry dealt with OpenDocument software and the threat it poses to Microsoft Office. OpenDocument contains Open Base, OpenWriter, Open Impress, OpenDraw OpenCalc, OpenImpress, OpenDraw and OpenMath. If you remember (what, don’t you memorize my blogs? They make great water cooler chat)…anyway…I said I conducted and experiment. I created a document using OpenWriter and tried to open it in MS Office (Word)…Nope, I couldn’t do it. My hasty conclusion was that MS Office and OpenDocument were not compatible with each other…well it’s true sort of and it’s not true sort of… OpenDocument files can be saved in a way that allow them to be MS Office compatible… After creating an OpenDocument click on File/Save as/ Save as Word document…OpenDocument converts that file to a format compatible with MS Office…but you can’t go in the other direction…if you create a document in Word, Microsoft can’t covert it to an “open” format…I don’t think…or will it? I’m not sure… Help… I’ll find out…I promise, because …you live and learn.