From Neooffice to word 2004

Mike_ · Blue Pill Joined: Aug 03, 2007 Posts: 3

Hi, I really hope somebody can help me as I am working with large important document (thesis).

When I started using first openoffice and then neooffice there were no problem converting from word to these files. And the program worked very well so thank you for a nice program.

But it is not suitable for everything. As I my document became larger and I started to used excel alike version of neooffice, (where the advanced features where very limiting, and fair enough), I startede shifting from working in different documents integrating and make tables and figures, the program has the ability to stall/crash.

Anyway, the point is that eventhought it is a nice program and I think the idea is, I have no other choice than going back to Word 2004 for mac.
I can save the document as a word 6.0 or 95, but result is poor. The drawings and tables is gone or not even close to be alike.

I have search in the forum, and I found the link for "Microsoft Office Open XML Converter - 0.2", so will is that the right program to solve the problem or does anybody knows something better?

Mike_ · Blue Pill Joined: Aug 03, 2007 Posts: 3

Maybe I should put it this why: I have tried it, but of course it only convert xml files, I think I was a little to fast there, sorry.

The qeustion is, if there is a convert program for *.Odt files to microsoft word 2004?

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

there is an openoffice.org template that will run a mass conversion on files, you should be able to go from odt to doc with no issues.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooomacros/

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=87718&package_id=95532

Samwise · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 5:59 am Post subject:

The "converter" you mentioned only allows Office 2004 to open Office 2007 (OpenXML) documents. The links provided by jakeOSX are macros that will automate the process of converting ODF (.odt, .ods etc.) files to the (NeoOffice-supported) format of your choice with NeoOffice. If you don't have many documents, you can also do this manually.

I think your problem here is that you've been trying to save your documents in legacy formats (Word 6.0, Word 95). If you want to edit your documents with Microsoft Office, the best format to use is Word 97/2000/XP (the most recent variant of the Word format compatible with Office 2004 for Mac, and the Word format for which OpenOffice.org - on which NeoOffice is based - has the best filters).

Mike_ · Blue Pill Joined: Aug 03, 2007 Posts: 3

Thanks, the 97/XP works fine, not perfect, but is it ok. At first I though it was only for xp systems.

Meanwhile I found the media-converter.com site, the result is the same. If you don't have Openoffice or Neooffice installed, it is a good alternative, if it is only some few files you need to convert.