Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 - KDE 21-06-2006 Manual page 81

3.1.4 Compatibility with Other Office
Applications
OpenOffice.org can work with documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases
in many other formats, including Microsoft Office. They can be seamlessly opened like
other files and saved back to the original format. Because the Microsoft formats are
proprietary and the specifications are not available to other applications, there are occa-
sionally formatting issues. If you have problems with your documents, consider opening
them in the original application and resaving in an open format such as RTF for text
documents or CSV for spreadsheets.
TIP
For good information about migrating from other office suites to OpenOf-
fice.org, refer to the OpenOffice.org Migration Guide
documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/
0600MG-MigrationGuide.pdf).
Converting Documents to the OpenOffice.org Format
OpenOffice.org can read, edit, and save documents in a number of formats. It is not
necessary to convert files from those formats to the OpenOffice.org format to use those
files. However, if you want to convert the files, you can do so. To convert a number of
documents, such as when first switching to OpenOffice.org, do the following:
1 Select File → Wizard → Document Converter.
2 Choose the file format from which to convert.
There are several StarOffice and Microsoft Office formats available.
3 Click Next.
4 Specify where OpenOffice.org should look for templates and documents to
convert and in which directory the converted files should be placed.
(http://
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