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Rob Beard wrote: | Jon Lawrence wrote: | |> Hi everyone, |> Annoying question time. |> I'm trying to get my head around how to get MS word to open OpenOffice |> xml files. |> I can open word xml files in OO but it seems not the other way around. |> This strikes me as strange - don't know why when MS are involved I |> should be used to it by now :) |> I thought that if an xml document was correctly formed then anything |> that can open xml documents could open it and work on it - please |> correct me if I'm wrong here. |> My guess is that regardless of all the marketing crap I've read about |> MS and xml, that word can't actually open/import xml documents correctly. |> |> Could someone kindly put me out of my misery here. |> Can word work with xml documents or not ? |> |> As you may have gathered using MS word isn't exactly one of my strong |> points :) but I need to be able to have some of my documents editable |> by word users and I thought that since xml was xml then they'd have no |> problems. Okay so they have to uncompress my OO files to get at the |> xml but that's no biggy - or so I thought. |> |> I'm hoping that there's an xml guru here abouts that can explain this |> to me. |> |> TIA. |> Jon |> |> | Jon, | | Regards your problems with Word files, you'll probably be better off | saving the files in Word 97 format, at least the they can be opened my | OOo, Word 97 and upwards amongst lots of other word processing | applications. | | Rob | | | RTF i tell you....
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