One of the realities in today's business world is that many corporate clients will only accept documents submitted in Microsoft's .doc format. Many business users may find it more convinient to always have OpenOffice save in one particular format. So, this goal of this guide is to show how to set up OpenOffice to always save in the .doc format.  This, along with a few other upcoming guides, is not one that I would personally reccomend using. That being said, if this helps people realize that OpenOffice can meet all of their documents needs, then maybe this was worth it.

We'll also go over a pet peeve of mine, the default font used in Open Office.  This guide should work on all versions of OpenOffice, Windows or Linux. So if you are not running Mepis Linux, these steps will still work for you.

Over Part 1 we'll show the normal method of saving a file in a format other than that of the default Open Document format.  Over Part 2 we'll cover setting up Microsoft's .doc format to be the default save file, and in Part 3 we'll cover changing the default font and seeing the changes in action.


1: As this guide is intended to be for all OpenOffice versions, the program is already open.





2: I just entered some text into OpenOffice, a simple Hi there.