Re: [Gramps-users] LINUX Question ... off topic ...

[Adam S. <ad...@sc...>]

OpenOffice uses an open format for its file formats (which is actually a gzip'd 
XML file).  You can change preferences to have your files saved in the Microsoft 
Office formats or save them manually (File/Save As...).  MS Office can only read 
MS Office formats while OpenOffice can read/write many formats.  Be aware that 
since the MS formats are proprietary, there might be problems when converting 
to/from those formats using OpenOffice.  This tends to happen with the more 
complicated files.  Hope this helps.  You can also ask questions to the 
OpenOffice mailing list (see http://www.openoffice.org/) and there are people 
there with much more knowledge than I have about it (I'm just a happy user).

                                                Adam
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>LINUX question.  In addition to having to move to GRAMPS, every one of 
>my Windows .doc items were converted/switched/what-ever-the-term to 
>OpenOffice documents.  I am finding that no one with Windows can open 
>them when OpenOffice docs sent as an attachment.
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>Do I make sense? 
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>Diane 
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