How do I fix formatting errors in Open Office after downloading Microsoft Office 2011 on my mac?

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How do I fix formatting errors in Open Office after downloading Microsoft Office 2011 on my mac?

I have used Open Office for almost 2 years. I recently downloaded Microsoft Office 2011 and now, not only can I not use Open office due to formatting issues, I cannot read any of my documents that were saved in Open Office unless I open them in TextEdit or copy and paste into microsoft word. Does any know of any solutions to this problem?? I tried deleting Microsoft office but that did not fix the issue. This is my first mac... and I love Open Office and prefer it over microsoft...

MacBook Pro

Posted on Apr 20, 2014 4:03 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 21, 2014 5:10 AM in response to Crabtree1234

Ask on the OpenOfffice or Microsoft Mac forums, as their not Apple products and their the applications you're having trouble with

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac

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Answer 2

May 3, 2014 9:23 PM in response to Crabtree1234

Crabtree1234,

Try this:

Install LibreOffice (https://www.libreoffice.org/)
Open your OpenOffice document(s)
Do a "Save As" and choose "Word Document (.docx)"

Then try opening them in Word. LibreOffice is mostly the same as OpenOffce but LibreOffice has support for saving .docx files. Here is more about the crazy history of the relationship (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice).

This may or may not help with the formatting as any conversion of one document format to another is bound to cause issues.

Good luck.

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