Conversion Tool needed

[Nija]

OK so i've been using Star Office 6.0, and I wrote up a document and saved it as a .doc file. I burned the file onto a disk using nero, and took it to school to turn in. Well It needed to be printed, so I try to open it up using MS Office XP and none of the options available work. All I get is jibberish. So what tool to convert it to something Office can interpret?

TIA

[Eric_B]

Try this. This apparently converts StarOffice files to plain text which you could then import to Word.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/sdw2txt/



-Eric

[Joshua]

Yeah, great... Then he loses all of his formatting...

[Nija]

Hrmm maybe I should be more specific next time. Thank you for the submission though.

I'm doing this all on a windows box. I used Star Office because I, unlike most, choose not to use Windows products if I can avoid it. Hence the Star Office. The tool you provided is great, actually, and I have it d/l'd to my linux box as of right now .

Like snotrocket said, I would like to keep my formatting (even if there isn't much ) AND be able to transfer from star office to ms office, if it's at all possible.

Thanks,

[GilbertsGrape]

in star office save as RTF or as a MS word DOC. then open in office just fine

[Nija]

Originally posted by GilbertsGrape
as a MS word DOC.

I did, and when i took it to the MS Office on the burned CD all I got was jibberish. I saved it as 'CCNANetworkingJournal.doc' in staroffice, and then when I tried to open/print it from MS Office, it wouldn't work. very odd.

[GilbertsGrape]

hummm ... try to save again it may have missed somthing saving it . then e-mail it to your self and try to open it

[Nija]

How odd. When I closed it out, it brought up a dialoug box saying that if i wanted to continue to save it as a Microsoft Work XP/2000 document I would lose some formatting. 0.o