Openoffice converting to The Word Format.

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On 09/25/2010 12:15 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>>    Will OpenOffice convert Doc files to be read by Windows 7 or Microsoft
>> Office 2010, I know that they can be read by Microsoft Office 2007.
> 
> Not clear if you mean import or export, but generally yes. You can manage to use 
> some feature which doesn't export cleanly, but in general it works well.
> 
> When I was writing for Sysadmin and other magazines regularly I got no 
> complaints, and I assume that the non-computer ones are using Word. There are 
> several variants, I used Word97 for stuff.
> 

  I assume he is asking about .docx format - i have had mixed results -
sometimes it works sometimes the import just gives an error. I have not
tried to export to .docx only .doc ... at this point I'd give docx
support a 5/10.