open open office files in msft office

11-13-2005	#1 (permalink)
pliu59 Just Joined! Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Chicago Posts: 74	open open office files in msft office does anyone know if theres any way for me to open open office files in microst office? i have this spreadsheet in open office spreadsheet that i wanna use in excel. thanks.

11-13-2005	#2 (permalink)
dylunio Linux Guru Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Cymru Posts: 4,157	AFAIK Office can't read OO.o formats, but openOffice can write to the exel format (.xls?). __________________ Registered Linux User #371543! Get force-get May The Source Be With You /dev/null /dev/null2

11-13-2005	#3 (permalink)
pliu59 Just Joined! Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Chicago Posts: 74	that's too bad. thanks for the quick reply btw.

11-13-2005	#4 (permalink)
bigtomrodney /etc/init.d/moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sunny South-East of Ireland Posts: 6,076	Apparently Office 12 will now be supporting Open Document format., but obviously that;s in the future and not much help to you now. __________________ Registered Linux user #378740 New members read here / Forum Rules #linuxforums on irc.freenode.net

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Originally Posted by bigtomrodney

Apparently Office 12 will now be supporting Open Document format., but obviously that;s in the future and not much help to you now.

Everything I have read says MS will NOT be supporting OpenDocument in any version of office.. makes no sense to me, but hey whatever...

There is a third party working on a filter to convert OO writer documents to Word doc format...

http://www.clever-age.org/index.php?id=40

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooo-word-filter/

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11-14-2005	#6 (permalink)
bigtomrodney /etc/init.d/moderator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Sunny South-East of Ireland Posts: 6,076	Oh yeah, I see that was an external company working on filters. Here's the /. link. __________________ Registered Linux user #378740 New members read here / Forum Rules #linuxforums on irc.freenode.net

11-15-2005	#7 (permalink)
dantose Just Joined! Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 58	you could just get a copy of OO for windows.

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