Working With Non-Writer Documents

One of OpenOffice.org's greatest strengths is its ability to open documents that were created in other word processing applicationsin fact, in a multitude of other applications. In particular, the programs are good at opening and converting documents that were created in Microsoft Office.

If you want to view the file types you can convert, choose File > Open. In the Open window, click the File type field and scroll through the list of formats. In addition to opening documents of other formats into Writer, you can also insert them into existing Writer documents, where they take on the Writer format automatically. See Inserting Other Documents on page 303.

To see which kinds of document formats Writer can save to, make sure Writer is active and choose File > Save As. Click the File type field and scroll through the list of formats.

Opening an Existing Document

Just choose File > Open and navigate to the document.

Getting All the Filters for Importing Other Documents

The standard install doesn't give you all the filters for other documents like FrameMaker. If you're having problems importing documents, do the custom installation and select all text document filters. See Installing Additional Components on page 34.

OpenOffice.org, at the time this book went to press, didn't include a filter for WordPerfect.

Turning Writer Documents Into HTML

See Making an HTML Version of a Document on page 144. The resulting HTML has a lot of < class > tags; it's not clean HTML.

Sending a Document as Email

See Sending a Document as Email on page 143.