)Where I am working, a college campus, we "ONLY" use Open Office instead of
Microsoft Office on a majority of the faculty computers (those in
administration or those who have gotten special permission have "enough
licenses" to have both, Information Technology (IT) does--even donations,
personally it is political and this 'squeakly wheel' has been cut off from
using MSO.) I have had MAJOR problems, IT has visited my computer and made
changes at work. Now for some reason when I write a (OPEN OFFICE/Word)
document at work it will not open in Microsoft Office-2003-Word on my home
computer or laptop that broke yesterday at work. What needs to be done? The
OO/word documents come up gibberish with boxes and it says on the scroll that
it is Japanese or something. HELP!

Try saving from OO in RTF format. Word will be able to open that.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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)Where I am working, a college campus, we "ONLY" use Open Office instead
of
Microsoft Office on a majority of the faculty computers (those in
administration or those who have gotten special permission have "enough
licenses" to have both, Information Technology (IT) does--even donations,
personally it is political and this 'squeakly wheel' has been cut off from
using MSO.) I have had MAJOR problems, IT has visited my computer and
made
changes at work. Now for some reason when I write a (OPEN OFFICE/Word)
document at work it will not open in Microsoft Office-2003-Word on my home
computer or laptop that broke yesterday at work. What needs to be done?
The
OO/word documents come up gibberish with boxes and it says on the scroll
that
it is Japanese or something. HELP!