Opening an Open Office data file in Excel

I can't open a date file created in Vista's Open Office on a non-Vista
computer using Excel. How can I do this? Any advice would be greatly
appreciated. Thanks

MacAnnie wrote:
> I can't open a date file created in Vista's Open Office on a non-Vista
> computer using Excel. How can I do this? Any advice would be greatly
> appreciated. Thanks

Vista doesn't come with an office program. OpenOffice is a free office
suite from www.openoffice.org. OpenOffice can read and save as the
Microsoft Office Excel file format.

So what did you really create the spreadsheet file with and in what
format did you save it? Post back with the file extension. If you have
OpenOffice installed on the Vista machine and you saved the file in the
OpenOffice Spreadsheet format (*.ods), then open the file back in
OpenOffice and Save As in MS Office format (*.xls).


Malke
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On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 10:26:08 -0700, MacAnnie
<MacAnnie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I can't open a date file created in Vista's Open Office


There's no such think as "Vista's Open Office." OpenOffice is an
application suite that can run under a variety of operating systems.


>on a non-Vista
>computer using Excel.



Vista or non-Vista is completely beside the point here. The only issue
I can see is that you created a file in OpenOffice and Excel can't
read it. That may or may not be surprising ,depending on what kind of
file you created and what file type (extension) it has.

Excel is a spreadsheet program. It reads spreadsheet files (its native
format is .xls, but it can read others). It does *not* read all types
of OpenOffice files, any more than Excel can read all types of
Microsoft Office files. What kind of file (what extension?) did you
try to open in Excel?



>How can I do this?


Chances are you can't, but first tell us what kind of file you're
trying to open in Excel.

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