Comment Re:Is there any way to access Old ms Office files (Score 2, Informative) 427
Thank you, Anonymous. Good tip.
Only last night I was amazed to find that OpenOffice's files are not only smaller that MSWord's, they're smaller than rich text .rtf and even (this stunned me) plain .txt files.
So I began laboriously saving years of old MSWord verbiage into OpenOffice's space-saving .sxw format. But, having read your post, I just went off and checked AUTOPILOT. Cool! A couple of minutes later a twenty-two file 2.04 MB folder only weighs 516 KB.
And they Save As back into MSWord just fine. The only functionality I lost was that I could no longer use the Table of Contents to jump to the entry. But simply reinserting the ToC in Word took five seconds. I'm impressed.
Thanks again, Anonymous. And thank you OpenOffice!
Only last night I was amazed to find that OpenOffice's files are not only smaller that MSWord's, they're smaller than rich text
So I began laboriously saving years of old MSWord verbiage into OpenOffice's space-saving
And they Save As back into MSWord just fine. The only functionality I lost was that I could no longer use the Table of Contents to jump to the entry. But simply reinserting the ToC in Word took five seconds. I'm impressed.
Thanks again, Anonymous. And thank you OpenOffice!
