Open Office interface with MS Office 2007

I have been trying out Open Office for a couple of weeks, but have been finding problems when I open Word files and work on them and then try to open them in Word 2007 to check them before I send them to other people. The tables disappear, the formatting sometimes gets messed up, and the highlighting becomes permanent.

I am going to be getting a new laptop and will have to install a word processing programme on it, does anyone have any ideas how these interface problems can be resolved. If not I will have to buy a new MS Office, which I'd like to avoid if possible.

 

Which format are you saving them files to? You can use this converter http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/

 

When I save them I tell it to keep the same format as the original. So I don't convert to odf, but keep them in doc.

 

Well you need to convert it from the Office 2007 format to Odf and then back again if you are going to go that route.

 

Ah, ok...so it was my short-cutting that was causing the problem, not the software interface after all.

So I will need to use your converter then. thnx, I'll give it a go.

 

by chance, does the same happen if you use the rtf format (which should be "readable" correctly for both)?

 

You shouldn't have any issues using rtf on either Word or OpenOffice as it is a cross platform specification whereas docx is specific to Word 2007.

 

i dont know if it makes a difference here or not. i was messing around and decided to open an open office doc using word. word thought the document was corrupted. i will look into the converter tho.