How do I pass documents back and forth to my Micrososft Office friends when using Open Office?
This is explained in the Open Office Help under “file associations for Microsoft Office” section. I will summarize it here. In Open Office click on “Tools | Options | Load/Save | General” You can then go through each file type and make it save in the Microsoft format. I.E. Click on “Text Document” then on “Always save as” select “Microsoft Word 2000/XP”. Likewise for “Spreadsheet” select “Microsoft Excel 2000/XP”. You can do this for every single document type and you will never have this problem again. If you just want to change the format of one document, then open it. I.E. “Text.sxw” and then click on “save as” change “file type” to “Microsoft Word 2000/XP” doc. It will now be called Text.doc. You can delete the old Text.sxw because you do not need it anymore.
