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[Tom <question76843@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76843 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/76843

Tom proposed the following answer:
I agree about using AbiWord and Gnumeric (spreadsheet) instead of
OpenOffice.  Those 2 packages in the Gnome Office are very much lighter
on system resources but you have to keep doing "Save As ..." and then
change the file ending from ".odt" to ".doc" or ".xls" in order that MS
Office has no trouble reading the documents.  For some reason MS Office
orefers the often proven unsafe formats rather the the more secure ones
we tend to prefer in linux.

With OpenOffice go up to the "Tools" menu, "Options" and in the pop-up
box look down the left-hand side for "Load/Save" click on the + and at
the bottom of "General" see the drop-down menu's "Document type" and
"Always save as ...", the MS formats are one or two above the defaults
usually set, avoid "template" format because that just gets confusing.
The other pages in "Load/Save" are also worth looking at, particularly
"VBA properties".

Err, of the Wolvix versions i would recommend the Wolvix Hunter version because it already includes OpenOffice on it's LiveCd ;)  LiveCds are great for testing out whether a distro will work but it's usually better/faster after you do a full proper install as outlined in this guide for the *buntus
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
Saving documents into "Documents" or suchliek in a LiveCd session means they will completely vanish once the machine powers down but it is possible to read and write to the hard-drives instead of the LiveCd's personal folders ;)


I hope this helps!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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