open office

[bucketmouth64]

Does open office read/open MS Word documents? My girlfriend upgraded her laptop to Windows 7 and hence lost MS word, excel, in the process. I was thinking of downloading open office. Or can word pad that is in Windows 7 read MS Word, because I can't get it to read/open any documents. Has open office come out with a Windows 7 version to download?

[spearchucker]

OpenOffice is compatible with Word and Excel. It works with Windows 7 just fine.

[simple1]

openoffice is the way to go. It is a great program and I have used it in both mac and pc formats

simple1

[bucketmouth64]

OpenOffice is compatible with Word and Excel. It works with Windows 7 just fine.

When I looked on their HSOforum the system requirements does not include Windows 7. Is there a certain version I should be looking for? I think the one I looked at was 3.1.

[simple1]

Yes you want 3.1

People seem to find this compatible with windows 7 without any problems. I think you are really going to like this.

Thanks,

Simple1

[bucketmouth64]

ok, thanks. I forgot to ask about the membership fee. Is this necessary? Or is there a way around this. Do these come with free updates?

[simple1]

You do not need to pay anything, but keep in mind that you may make a donation. This helps the people hosting the program and working on it get a little somthing back. And you will get updates.

[bucketmouth64]

How come I can't open any MS word documents with open office? I get the window to search for programs and all the MS programs come up. Is there something else I need to download to read these documents?

[simple1]

Did you download and install the program? I just downloaded open office on my other computer, then installed it and it worked automatically. It sounds as if you only downloaded the program. Also, right click and choose open with, if you have the program installed, it should give you the option of openoffice.

Simple1

[upnorth]

You may have to start the open office application first then navigate to the proper folder/directory where your files are then open it.

If than works and you want to open a file by just double clicking it. Open up windows explorer, find a file that you want to open, right click, select open with, and choose the open office app you want to open it with if it doesn't show up in the list you will need to browse to it in program files\whatever directory it installed into and find the file. You can find that by right clicking on the app shortcut or icon and going to properties, it will tell you where it is located in the location line. Then check the always use the selected program to open this kind of file.