Open Office (.odt file) - How to open in Word 2003

I installed the ODF translator add-in for Office 2007 a while back, and it
seems to work quite well. It's available at the 2nd link you mentioned.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
in message news:%23NcevvF2IHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Hi Graham,
>
> FYI, while they didn't mention anything about back versions of Word,
> Microsoft has announced the support for Open Document Format
> (ODF 1.1)files will be added to Word in Office 2007 in Service Pack 2
>
> http://microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-21ExpandedFormatsPR.mspx
>
> MS is one of the sponsors for developing an open source ODF converter
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter
>
> Microsoft is also planning on joining a few of the groups who work on
> standards
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2008/05/21/microsoft-ad...save-as
>
> ===========
> <<"Graham Mayor" <gmayor.TakeThisOut@REMOVETHISmvps.org> wrote in message
> news:%23GsLUJC2IHA.5984@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> There is no MS utility, nor I would think is there likely to be.
> You'll need either the third party utility or Open Office itself.
>
> --
> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
> Graham Mayor - Word MVP >>
> --
>
> Bob Buckland ?
> MS Office System Products MVP
>
> *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
>
>

"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:

> I installed the ODF translator add-in for Office 2007 a while back, and it
> seems to work quite well. It's available at the 2nd link you mentioned.
>
> --
> Herb Tyson MS MVP
> Author of the Word 2007 Bible
> Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
> Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
>
>
> "Bob Buckland ?" <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote
> in message news:%23NcevvF2IHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > Hi Graham,
> >
> > FYI, while they didn't mention anything about back versions of Word,
> > Microsoft has announced the support for Open Document Format
> > (ODF 1.1)files will be added to Word in Office 2007 in Service Pack 2
> >
> > http://microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/may08/05-21ExpandedFormatsPR.mspx
> >
> > MS is one of the sponsors for developing an open source ODF converter
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter
> >
> > Microsoft is also planning on joining a few of the groups who work on
> > standards
> >
> > http://blogs.technet.com/gray_knowlton/archive/2008/05/21/microsoft-ad...save-as
> >
> > ===========
> > <<"Graham Mayor" <gmayor.RemoveThis@REMOVETHISmvps.org> wrote in message
> > news:%23GsLUJC2IHA.5984@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > There is no MS utility, nor I would think is there likely to be.
> > You'll need either the third party utility or Open Office itself.
> >
> > --
> > <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
> > Graham Mayor - Word MVP >>
> > --
> >
> > Bob Buckland ?
> > MS Office System Products MVP
> >
> > *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
> >
> >
>
>Versions supported...

Bob mentioned above that he had no knowledge of this working for back
versions of Word. In fact there is no mention anywhere during installation of
the versions supported until the installation is effectively complete - when
2007 is mentioned in the title!

I have just gone through the process, and having got to the end decided to
try it in my Word 2003 SP3 anyway - and I am pleased to say it works
perfectly - except (for the moment) I have been unable to open the .odt
documents from within Word, although from Explorer is fine.

Great help - as always; thanks!