My Open Office document, stored in my flash stick, is not recognized by the computer at the print shop; neither Microsoft Word nor Adobe Reader is able to open or print it.

Its easy don´t worry, when you save your document on the OpenOffice program make the compatibility with Microsoft Word with the instruction SAVED AS.... and select MICROSOFT WORD on the file type menu.

With that compatibility, you`ll be avaible to use your document with OFFICE

Michael, hi.
In order to view documents with Adobe Reader you need to export them as pdf. For that, in OO Writer go to File -> Export as PDF... and save the doc using the format.
If you want to see the doc you wrote in OO in plain Office Word use: File -> Save As and in the appearing dialog, select "Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc). In my case that would be the fifth option, it might vary in yours.

I couldn't find anything suitable regarding ordering a list. If you created it in a table it should be easy but in case you didn't, I suggest copying the text to OO calc, ordering it there and copying it back to Writer.

Hope this helps.

While saving as a MS document is one way around this, it really just furthers the belief that everyone needs MS Office. I'd do two things. First, complain to the business that they are not supporting ODF. They can easily install open office since it's free of cost and license restrictions. Second, I'd install the portable apps tools on a flash drive and then you can open up your open office documents anywhere.

http://portableapps.com/

Portable apps is really cool. I'm loving it.

For alphabetizing, highlight the text and then choose tools and then sort. Set the criteria and click okay.

hey jim,
   THX so much for your generous gifting of yr time to help a stranger s a problem. I am a little bewildered by tech shorthand. i was over 50 when i came to computers, but i've already put em to good use. i will ask my local copyshop to support ODF, but he's my age and I'm afraid he'll say "what the whip-wap is ODF?" and I'll say hell i have no idea, just start supporting it. so, what is ODF? second, i did follow the link to portable apps tools, but am unsure of what they are or how to install them. i took a computer course at my local community colege, but learned nearly nothin, and still have to go point-to-point, step by step. i lost my local tutor, and will get another so, i hope . thx, and be well, michael combs

Jim Hutchinson <email address hidden> wrote: Your question #11710 on openoffice.org in ubuntu changed:
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Jim Hutchinson proposed the following answer:
While saving as a MS document is one way around this, it really just
furthers the belief that everyone needs MS Office. I'd do two things.
First, complain to the business that they are not supporting ODF. They
can easily install open office since it's free of cost and license
restrictions. Second, I'd install the portable apps tools on a flash
drive and then you can open up your open office documents anywhere.

http://portableapps.com/

Portable apps is really cool. I'm loving it.

For alphabetizing, highlight the text and then choose tools and then
sort. Set the criteria and click okay.

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ODF stands for Open Document Format. It is an attempt to standardize document formation in an "open" standard rather than a format for which microsoft holds the only key. I find it odd that our own government can essentially require citizens to buy MS products by sharing Public Info in a closed format. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html for a bit of philosophy. For a bit of info on ODF check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument. Open Office saves files in ODF (I think the extension is .odt for document, odp for presentations and so on).

Portable apps is very cool and a really good possible solution for you. You install it by running the installer and then pointing it at your flash drive. It's kind of slow to install (probably because of the speed limits on flash media and usb) but once installed it runs quite fast. It is a really nice way to take your computer with you in your pocket. You can have all your firefox bookmarks, documents and many other tools on any windows computer. You do need to run the install from windows as it's a windows tool. It's a way to have al your familiar apps in windows. If you need more help with this feel free to ask. I have set up a flash drive and it has become my best friend.

hey jim,
      thx much 4 yr help. i did download open appps to my desktop, i was concerned about doing so to my flash drive because it would alone take up about a 10th of my flash's capacity, but it seems that's the only way I can have portable capacity to print out my docs anywhere.
      I'm at the guy, brien's, printshop, & I'm gonna show him yr 1st e-mail to me now, & hopefully he'll wanna get ODF printing capacity, though like me he's a geezer and may need a little breaking it down step by step. I know how to plow with a horse, skid logs with a mule, fall trees withh a 6-foot 2-man saw, make adobge bricks, make yoghurt, milk goats, grow food, harvest medecine plants, yaddy yaddy, but this hi-tech stuff is slow to come to me. but rest assured i AM using what i know to fwd the revolution. for example, street music was prohibited and harrassed out of existence in our town, sta. fe, n.m., for over 30 years, and thx 2 the computer i googled 1st amendment, street music, aclu, and to make a long story short, we now have street music in our hometown, in fact that's my livelihood.
   thought you'd appreciate knowing that the ripples from the little pebble you toss travel in a good way.

  Here's Brian, the print shop guy:
      OK, so how do we hook this up in terms an old guy can understand?

  You can contact me at: <email address hidden>

  Thanks, Brian

  okay, signing out for now, michael, thx jim

Jim Hutchinson <email address hidden> wrote:
  Your question #11710 on openoffice.org in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+question/11710

Status: Open => Answered

Jim Hutchinson proposed the following answer:
ODF stands for Open Document Format. It is an attempt to standardize
document formation in an "open" standard rather than a format for which
microsoft holds the only key. I find it odd that our own government can
essentially require citizens to buy MS products by sharing Public Info
in a closed format. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-
attachments.html for a bit of philosophy. For a bit of info on ODF check
out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument. Open Office saves files
in ODF (I think the extension is .odt for document, odp for
presentations and so on).

Portable apps is very cool and a really good possible solution for you.
You install it by running the installer and then pointing it at your
flash drive. It's kind of slow to install (probably because of the speed
limits on flash media and usb) but once installed it runs quite fast. It
is a really nice way to take your computer with you in your pocket. You
can have all your firefox bookmarks, documents and many other tools on
any windows computer. You do need to run the install from windows as
it's a windows tool. It's a way to have al your familiar apps in
windows. If you need more help with this feel free to ask. I have set up
a flash drive and it has become my best friend.

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Replied to Brian via email. Let me know if you need anything else.

Oh, one more thing. The portable apps does take a bit of space but flash drives are getting cheap and even with a 1GB drive you would be able to store quite a lot of documents. I recently picked up a 4GB drive for $40 which I thought was a pretty good deal.

hey jim,
    so i was able to download the portable apps, but after getting it onto my desktop ( which took about 10 minutes) this is the dialogue box's message:

Cannot open /home/eagle/Desktop/PortableApps_Suite_Standard_1.0.exe: No application suitable for automatic installation is available for handling this kind of file
    so now i'm befuddled. whaddui do now? thx, for yr help, mc

Jim Hutchinson <email address hidden> wrote: Your question #11710 on openoffice.org in ubuntu changed:
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Jim Hutchinson proposed the following answer:
Oh, one more thing. The portable apps does take a bit of space but flash
drives are getting cheap and even with a 1GB drive you would be able to
store quite a lot of documents. I recently picked up a 4GB drive for $40
which I thought was a pretty good deal.

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Did you download this on Windows or Ubuntu? Based on the path it looks like your Ubuntu install. It is a windows program and only runs in windows so if you downloaded to Ubuntu that error makes sense. The portable apps suite is designed to introduce windows users to the benefits of open source. If you have Ubuntu you already have access to all these apps and many are installed by default. I suggested it to you because it will allow you to open your Office Office documents that you create on Ubuntu on any windows machine without having to install Open Office on that machine. For example, if you go to the library you will probably not have the ability to install new apps but with portable apps on a flash drive you will still be able to use Open Office and open any files you saved on the flash drive.

How do I convert an Open Office document I have "save as" to a Microsoft Word document so other people I send it to can read it and work with it? Thanks! Cheryl