Recently my housemate has been having problems with people opening ‘Word’ documents created from OpenOffice. Trying to get more information from the user is difficult as they just use Word and so aren’t overly familiar with document versions. This has been causing delays and lots of stress. So I found the handiest way to get a compatible .doc is to upload the OO file (either the .doc or an OO format document) to Google Docs & Spreadsheets, then saving as a Word document. The end result is a document that happily opens in their version of Word.

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