[SOLVED] Defult formats in OpenOffice

Kenny_Strawn · 09-07-2010, 11:33 PM

I have been following this guide to ensuring that your Linux converts stay with you to create a noob-proof Ubuntu ISO image with remastersys. I want to know how to set the default file formats in OpenOffice to Microsoft formats to ensure that the newbies who use this ISO image don't create documents that their friends can't open.

tredegar · 09-08-2010, 04:40 PM

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Kenny_Strawn · 09-08-2010, 05:14 PM

Instead of running "soffice", I had to run one of the OpenOffice.org office applications (Writer, Presentation, or Spreadsheet) and then run "Tools -> Options -> Load/Save -> General", and under the default file format section, select the Microsoft Office formats for those three applications.