Convert open office (odt) to word (doc)

[Staff]

Thank you. I'll add that viewer to the various appropriate entries in the database.

As to uninstalling it, you could just change the file association back to the original program and so long as TextMaker Viewer isn't impolite enough to change it back without asking when it starts your system should behave as before. For details...

http://filext.com/faq/manage_file_extensions.php

[Flextones]

As you know Microsoft is in business to make money, but Open Office is free shareware. Take your .odt files after saving them on some portable media to a public library or any place that has computers for the public to use for free and has Microsoft Word. First I hope that you have saved the Open Office documents are saved in Word Format. Open Office gives you some options as to what format to save your .odt files.

You have to play around with your document(s). I can't remember if I used Word to make Writer into Word or if I used Writer to convert it into Word, however it does work. You will have to play around with them once you get them both on the same pc.

I am too poor to be on-line, so I do a lot of work on public pcs. I have a pc at home with Open Office, which I downloaded from a public pc. I have several documents on my pc at home which are Word but originally were in Open Office.

It can be done. I know because it has worked for me.

[Staff]

free shareware

As an ex-shareware writer I have to insert here that there is no such thing. Free software is called freeware generally. Software you try before buying is called shareware generally (or free trial software if you are Microsoft, Symantec, or other large companies). Basically, shareware is a marketing method where you try the software to see if it meets your needs before buying it.

I know -- semantics [humbug].

[vishnushayan]

i am in great need of it..thnx a lot

[BrianDM]

I tried to convert the above and was unsuccessful. I can only assume there is a problem with the originating file or there's a conversion bug./B

[Staff]

Probably. The ODT format is fairly well known and easily converted using OpenOffice software. Of course, it always could be something else (people sometimes use common file extensions for uncommon things) but if the sender says it's an OpenOffice document then it should be able to be opened and saved to a different format using OpenOffice software if the file is not somehow corrupt.

If it was a sent file, have the sender ZIP the file into an archive and then send that. When you unzip you know the original file is there and that it has not been corrupted in sending.

[IBFrantik]

Originally Posted by Danee Boy

I have a few OpenOffice writer files that I need to convert word format. I know OpenOffice will convert word files to open office.

I haven't been able to find anything on Google or the other sites I've searched. I'm surprised MS hasn't at least released a plug in to read OpenOffice files.

I could simply download OpenOffice but seeing as I'm on dial-up that would be hell.

Thanks in Advance,

Dan

I exclusively use OpenOffice at home, and use both MS Office XP and OpenOffice at work. There are some minor format changes that can occur when using OpenOffice to convert .odf to .doc, but for the most part it works well. So if downloading OpenOffice (or having someone else do it for you) is viable, then I agree w/ others here and suggest that also.

That being said...
The Microsoft/Novell partnership resulted in a promise by Microsoft in July of 2006: MS Sponsors ODF/OpenXML Translator Project. The result was a SourceForge Project. The amount of cooperation/participation by MS is unknown to me.

The SourceForge project is here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter. It will convert between ODF and OpenXML (Office 2007).

Microsoft has it's own backward compatibility release to deal w/ Office 2007 back to Office XP (2003?) issues. (E.g. opening OpenXML files in Word 2003, etc.) It is here: Office Compatibility Pack. And discussed here Office Compatibility Pack Details

So, to sum up: Microsoft's solution was to provide backward compatibility for their own documents, but leave interoperability to others. Hence, the official solution is upgrade to Office 2007 and use the SourceForge software; or to convert the document twice -once to OpenXML, then using the Compatiblity pack to open it in your current ver. of Office.

~IB

All opinions are my own, even if I stole them from someone else.

[trolley]

Originally Posted by chuckf

http://media-convert.com/ will convert just about any format to any other for free.

thanks chuck, i've been looking for something like this for ages! it failed to convert my .odt (openoffice) file to .doc (MS word XP), but then i tried pdf and that's fine.

[verafenix]

Fastest way to do it if you do not have OpenOffice is to open an account with google. (ex. your gmail account)

You can upload the ODT document into "Google Docs" and then download it back as a Word DOC.

Google docs requires little downloading, as it opens in your web browser.

Goodluck!

[wiseguy12851]

I am an author and a photographer, I am using a computer that has so little RAM in it it goes below the requirements for Windows XP and crashes all the time. My portfolio book that is going to come out soon, as soon as I can get it to my publishing company in the correct format as they don't want to do it.

I use Open Office and have designed the book in the program but it's over 160MB and Google docs can only handle 500KB, I need to transfer it to another computer in the correct format but it's not enough RAM to convert it to .doc and I'm not going to go into installing programs because that's another story.

media-convert can only handle up to 100MB and that goes to Zamzar as well.

The company wants a PDF, sounds easy right, they demand it to be distilled, I am completely lost as they say it's not distilled when I use Open office to output as PDF.

What do I do, I need it in Word format because the company says if it's in Word format they'll distill it for me and put in PDF for me but it must be in .doc format. I am completely lost as to what distilling is but am happy to put in Word format if I had enough RAM.

This is just too complicating. I have tried every which way even going through the trouble of putting it into PDF and then back into doc with Zamzar but that didn' go well. I have tried every possible way of outputting as PDF and then back to doc with about a hundred programs online and downloaded, they all turned out wrong.

It has to look exactly like it does now or it will be a disaster. Please Help and media convert doesn't handle the output of a PDF in doc format yet .odt is too big to conver to doc.