not saving as doc issue

[Mary <my...@yahoo.com.INVALID>]

Just to let you know, I've checked in the forums and I can't seem to findsomeone with this issue...or I don't know how to explain it well enough!
I installed 4.2.1 Open Office on my Mac Air
For some reason, when I create a new document and save it as "doc" it saves itto 'textedit'.  When I send it to people they can't open it.
I had Open Office on my PC and never had this issue when saving to "doc"so I don't know why I'm having this problem now....or how to fix it.
I've included a document that I created in OO and then saved as "doc"but it doesn't open as a doc. In allegria 
Mary Ayers, PhD
  http://www.TapIntoAction.comListen to the Radio Shows: Mary's Radio Show Archives

Re: not saving as doc issue

[Dave Barton <db...@tasit.net>]

-------- Original Message  --------
From: Rory O'farrell
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 18:22:00 +0000

> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:50:24 +0000 (UTC)
> Mary  <my...@yahoo.com.INVALID> wrote:
> 
>> Just to let you know, I've checked in the forums and I can't seem to findsomeone with this issue...or I don't know how to explain it well enough!
>> I installed 4.2.1 Open Office on my Mac Air
>> For some reason, when I create a new document and save it as "doc" it saves itto 'textedit'. �When I send it to people they can't open it.
>> I had Open Office on my PC and never had this issue when saving to "doc"so I don't know why I'm having this problem now....or how to fix it.
>> I've included a document that I created in OO and then saved as "doc"but it doesn't open as a doc.�In allegria 
>> Mary Ayers, PhD
>>   http://www.TapIntoAction.comListen to the Radio Shows: Mary's Radio Show Archives
> 
> In /File /Save As you must select Word 97/2000/XP format from the file type dropdown.  Make sure "Automatic file name extension" checkbox is checked.

Mary,

Your file name does not have a ".doc", or any other name extension, so
Windows didn't know which program to use. Which is also the the reason
others can't open it. Simply follow Rory's advice.

You say that this document was created in Apache OpenOffice, but the
document's internal structure shows that it was generated by some form
of two stage external OLE (Object Linking & Embedding) process.

Additionally, if you are going to create documents in Apache OpenOffice,
it is wise to save in the native ".odt" format and then send copies in
other formats (eg. MS Word) as required. This will reduce possible
problems your documents might be exposed to.

Dave





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Re: not saving as doc issue

[Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>]

On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 17:50:24 +0000 (UTC)
Mary  <my...@yahoo.com.INVALID> wrote:

> Just to let you know, I've checked in the forums and I can't seem to findsomeone with this issue...or I don't know how to explain it well enough!
> I installed 4.2.1 Open Office on my Mac Air
> For some reason, when I create a new document and save it as "doc" it saves itto 'textedit'.  When I send it to people they can't open it.
> I had Open Office on my PC and never had this issue when saving to "doc"so I don't know why I'm having this problem now....or how to fix it.
> I've included a document that I created in OO and then saved as "doc"but it doesn't open as a doc. In allegria 
> Mary Ayers, PhD
>   http://www.TapIntoAction.comListen to the Radio Shows: Mary's Radio Show Archives

In /File /Save As you must select Word 97/2000/XP format from the file type dropdown.  Make sure "Automatic file name extension" checkbox is checked.

-- 
Rory O'Farrell <of...@iol.ie>

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