open office

[Aqualung]

A couple of people on this forum recently directed me toward open office as a good substitute for Word. But I don't have a printer, so I need to know if I can open OpenOffice documents in word to be able to print them. Does anybody know for sure?

 

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I really don't know, but I'm guessing at the very best, the formatting would get all messed up, and you'd probably get the whole document to come up as one long paragraph.

 

[turk179]

A couple of people on this forum recently directed me toward open office as a good substitute for Word. But I don't have a printer, so I need to know if I can open OpenOffice documents in word to be able to print them. Does anybody know for sure?

I use Openoffice as a Word substitute and as of the last time I updated, Word can not read Openoffice docs, other than the ole drag and drop method. But if you have Word already you won't be using the drag and drop method so I am assuming that you are saving to a disk and opening on a different computer with Word (which wont work.):banghead3

 

[Aqualung]

I use Openoffice as a Word substitute and as of the last time I updated, Word can not read Openoffice docs, other than the ole drag and drop method. But if you have Word already you won't be using the drag and drop method so I am assuming that you are saving to a disk and opening on a different computer with Word (which wont work.):banghead3

Okay, thanks, turk. So I guess it's buy word or buy a printer. Any guesses which is cheaper? I seem to think the printer would be...