Open Office document need to open in Word

Jake'sGran

Taffybiker wrote: »

Why not install Open Office on the computer you wish to print from?

It has not Internet access at the moment as there are no ethernet access. The computer is about 7/8 years old. So I cannot download Open Office or anything else. I need to get a PCI ethernet/network card to slot in but have not done it yet. These things are not urgent when you do have Internet access already.

Jake'sGran

superscaper wrote: »

I'm still not understanding what the problem is. If you're using Open Office then....? Y ou can still open documents and save etc. What is it exactly you don't think you can do? Because as far as I'm aware if you're using Open Office you're not going to have any compatibility issues.

It may be my inexperience or lack of techieness. I typed it in Open Office on the laptop downstairs thinking I could just take the CD I transferred it to and open it in MS Office Word on my old Dell upstairs and which has the only printer I have attached to it. As you know this did not work. I thank you for your patience but I will get round it.

enigma52

open in open office and save as .rtf file then you can open it in wordpad on the other machine

-TangleFoot-

Jake'sGran wrote: »

I typed it in Open Office on the laptop downstairs thinking I could just take the CD I transferred it to and open it in MS Office Word on my old Dell upstairs and which has the only printer I have attached to it.

You could have, if you'd copied the OpenOffice.org installer or the Sun ODF Plugin to the CD along with it.

Does this old PC of yours have any USB ports? It occurs to me that a USB flash drive would be much more economical than a pack of recordable compact discs.

Jake'sGran

I am beginning to feel a bit silly about the whole thing now and will probably finish up retyping the document. The 7 yr old Dell has just one USB port I think, at the front, and I used to plug in my digital camera into it- very fiddly. I wanted both the laptop and the desk top to have broadband but it was my SIL who said the desktop did not have the necessary ethernet access as I said earlier so there is no Internet on it. But I will get round to sorting it as instructed by a couple of really kind people in an earlier....long... post. I'd be lost without this forum. I checked today and, as I thought, I had got rid of Open office on the desktop because the Dell was so slow I was trying to make it faster by ditching programmes.

Finally, I am now going to use Enigma52's suggestion.

superscaper

Jake'sGran wrote: »

Finally, I am now going to use Enigma52's suggestion.

Or simply save as a word (.doc) file. Save as a word file, open with word. Isn't that essentially all you want?