Mochyn's eyes have just glazed over.
I knew that as I typed, to be honest.
mochyn
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You're right. Now ask me about timber-framing: no probs. But otherwise: 
I need to submit work to college as Word documents so I'm guessing I need to type them up as Word docs to start with.
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vegplot
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My preference by far for features and ease of use of MS Office 2013. However, as Tahir suggest Libre Office will do more than you want to do.
Download it here..
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/
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mochyn
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OK: so will that produce Word documents?
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vegplot
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OK: so will that produce Word documents? |
Yes otherwise I wouldn't have endorsed it 
mochyn
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I know but you know how poor my uderstanding of these things is!
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mochyn
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I know but you know how poor my uderstanding of these things is!
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vegplot
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Case proven m'lud.
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mochyn
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Treacodactyl
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Does Libreoffice open and save word documents better than openoffice?
I have to do some work on a word document and openoffice doesn't seem to be able to handle it very well and all the formatting goes wrong.
Mochyn, have you spoken to your college? If you don't get on with the free alternatives I would have thought you could get some form student edition of MS Office.
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mochyn
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That's my next move if I can't make this work, Treac. We have good IT service and if I can't get on I'll e-mail them on Monday
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Nick
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I think they've discontinued the student options for office now; I also think they've brought the price down for the regular edition.
Eta: http://www.software4students.co.uk/products/microsoft-office-365-university is probably your best legal bet, assuming you have an academic email address.
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mochyn
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This is going to sound so stupid. Does the name of the doc. just have to end in ".doc", then?
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buzzy
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This is going to sound so stupid. Does the name of the doc. just have to end in ".doc", then? |
Well, it doesn't HAVE to, and calling it letter.doc won't automatically make it intelligible to MS Word.
But if you have managed to create it as an MS Word document, call it letter.doc and many people will know what to do with it. 
Henry
mark
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I use Libre office all the time as dos my wife - we save documents as Microsoft office files works fine !
Occasionally it goes a bit odd but only on very rare occasions if we are sent Office/word files by someone who does not follow best practise and formats them in some really strange non-standard way
It is no problem with documents we create.
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mark
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if you create in Open Office or Libre Office when you save you select "save as" from the menu ..
There a two microsoft office formats for documents .doc and .docx
Whichever you choose Libre office wil save your document in the correct format and then attach the correct extension (doc or docx to the name )
If you simply add the extension to a file that is not saved as such by changing its name it wil just confuse your computer (and everyone elses)
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vegplot
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This is going to sound so stupid. Does the name of the doc. just have to end in ".doc", then? |
In general you want to save in the format the person you're sharing the document uses. Older versions of Word don't support the new .docx format and if they can't use this version then save as .doc but at the risk of losing some formatting (in general you don't need to worry about the difference between .doc and .docx).
Select 'Save as' from the File menu and choose the format option you want...
mochyn
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See where it says "Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP/2003 (.doc) (*.doc) at the bottom of that screen? Mine doesn't have 2003 or (*.doc). Is it still OK?
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mochyn
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Ooh: I had a thought.
The document I'm working on is called Blaaaagh.doc - OpenOffice.org Writer
Is that likely to work? I'll check with IT at college exactly which format they want, but does it look likely?
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vegplot
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Ooh: I had a thought.
The document I'm working on is called Blaaaagh.doc - OpenOffice.org Writer
Is that likely to work? I'll check with IT at college exactly which format they want, but does it look likely? |
.doc usually means Word doc so there shouldn't be an issue.
mochyn
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Cheers me ducks: I'm going to run a test later in the week: sending a .doc to my tutor to check that it's OK
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