an open office annoyance

[ritaxis]

In Word Perfect I can have a setting to always save a file in its original format. WIth this, if I open a .doc, it will save as a .doc unless I tell it to do otherwise: if it opens as .rtf. it saves as .rtf.

Open Office does not have this setting. I can tell it to save all files as any one of a number of formats, or I can tell it to save an individual file as any one o a larger number of formats, but I can't set it up so I can sit back and let Open Office save the file in  the format it came in. Unless all the files are coming in exactly the same format, of course.

So I guess I'm setting it to save them all in .doc because that's the closest to what the editors are using (docx). I am sure that .odt is just as fine a format as the materials with Open Office say, but alas, I don't call the shots.

on another front, somebody on the block has a brand new electric guitar and they know four nice notes on it. Oh, there's a new drum set too. Clever children.

Comments

[joycemocha.livejournal.com]

I find that most editors I'm submitting to still prefer doc or rtf to docx--in fact, I'm still seeing the "No docx!" on some guidelines.