Open office word will not save to my USB drive

There are a couple possible issues. First, how do you save it? As a "Word" file or as a native open office file (i.e. .doc or .odt)? If you save as .odt, which is the native format for open office, then you will need open office (OO.o) on the computers at school to read it. We have OO.o on our computers and even then the user has to go through opening it once and doing the registration steps in order for .odt files to be recognized. Your file would look, from within windows that is, as a blank icon because windows would not be able to associate it with anything.

I'd be willing to bet your school has not installed OO.o. They are happy paying ms for something they could get for free - take the opportunity to educate them and get it installed. It's free after all.

The other work around is to simply save the file as a word (.doc) file. I personally find this annoying since OO.o is free there is no reason not to install it everywhere. You could also download and install PortableApps to your flash drive which would allow you to run OO.o from the flash drive on any computer you wanted. This is what I do.

If you are saving the file as .doc and it isn't working, please provide a bit more detail about format you are using, how you are saving it to the flash drive, if you are using Ubuntu and which version to write it and save it and any other details that could be useful. Normally, this shouldn't happen.

I tried to save as doc and as rtf, because some word doesnt like the .doc, but all will open rtf.
  I am using Ubuntu 7.10, with the most recent updates. I will be trying again, so if it does not work i will reply again. I saved it to my flash thru open office..file..save as..
  thanks

Jim Hutchinson <email address hidden> wrote:
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https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+question/30395

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Jim Hutchinson proposed the following answer:
There are a couple possible issues. First, how do you save it? As a
"Word" file or as a native open office file (i.e. .doc or .odt)? If you
save as .odt, which is the native format for open office, then you will
need open office (OO.o) on the computers at school to read it. We have
OO.o on our computers and even then the user has to go through opening
it once and doing the registration steps in order for .odt files to be
recognized. Your file would look, from within windows that is, as a
blank icon because windows would not be able to associate it with
anything.

I'd be willing to bet your school has not installed OO.o. They are happy
paying ms for something they could get for free - take the opportunity
to educate them and get it installed. It's free after all.

The other work around is to simply save the file as a word (.doc) file.
I personally find this annoying since OO.o is free there is no reason
not to install it everywhere. You could also download and install
PortableApps to your flash drive which would allow you to run OO.o from
the flash drive on any computer you wanted. This is what I do.

If you are saving the file as .doc and it isn't working, please provide
a bit more detail about format you are using, how you are saving it to
the flash drive, if you are using Ubuntu and which version to write it
and save it and any other details that could be useful. Normally, this
shouldn't happen.

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Are you still having issues or did you manage to work this out?

Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. Also sometimes it wont save to the harddrive as well, the file name saves, but it is empty when I come back. Is 2.4 available as an upgrade yet??

Jim Hutchinson <email address hidden> wrote: Your question #30395 on openoffice.org in ubuntu changed:
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Jim Hutchinson proposed the following answer:
Are you still having issues or did you manage to work this out?

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If you upgrade to the new version of Ubuntu you will also get the new version of Open Office. Given all the improvements in Ubuntu I'd recommend upgrading or reinstall depending on what you prefer. If you don't want to upgrade, you may still be able to manually install 2.4 or enable the backports repository but I don't know if it's been added yet.

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