MS Word documents compatibility with Open Offfice?

Word files can be opened by OO (or LibreOffice, as I think it's called now or soon). However, OO files cannot be opened by Word. You have to save them as rtf or doc files in OO--which it will do.

Hope that helps.

When it was marketed, as far as I can tell.

I use Word 2003 on my desktop, OpenOffice on my laptop. You can set the OpenOffice default to save your files as a .doc, making them fully compatible with Word, no conversion necessary. (It's smoother than going from .docx to .doc, by a long shot.)

OpenOffice's functions and features are very close to Word 2003, so it's easy for me. Maybe it would seem terribly different to someone accustomed to a newer version of the MS Suite.

I carry a flash drive back and forth all the time, bouncing between the two word processing systems seamlessly.

Maryn, content with OpenOffice

LOG said:

Yeah, I saw that mentioned in other threads around here. Can anyone explain what's going on there? Because I've checked and there seem to be both an Open Office program and a Libre Office program.
What's the difference?

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LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice, which means it's based on the same code base. A lot of the developers didn't like the way Oracle was handling OpenOffice development, and because it's open source, they decided to just take the development lead into their own hands with their own version, called LibreOffice. A lot of Oracle's own developers jumped ship to LibreOffice, so it's probably going to get the most of development going forward.

And I'd use XP/2000. Anything else is just too damn old.

I bow to Kuwi's expertise. I set mine to XP because that's what I'm running on the desktop.

Maryn, more about common sense than knowing stuff