Convertion of Star Office documents to Microsoft Office
 

I was recently forced to upgrade to a new computer, with Vista installed.
Much of my previous hardware and software won't run under Vista. This
includes Star Office 7. I have a number of documents and spreadsheets, that
I need to view. Is there a free convertion utility, that will let me read
them in MS Office Home & Student 2007 (or anywhere else for that matter).

Convertion of Star Office documents to Microsoft Office
 

As far as I know, Star Office files can be opened directly in Excel

I don't know if 2007 supports this or not.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:54:03 -0700, SJM
wrote:

I was recently forced to upgrade to a new computer, with Vista installed.
Much of my previous hardware and software won't run under Vista. This
includes Star Office 7. I have a number of documents and spreadsheets, that
I need to view. Is there a free convertion utility, that will let me read
them in MS Office Home & Student 2007 (or anywhere else for that matter).

Convertion of Star Office documents to Microsoft Office
 

I'm not sure if this will work or not either as I haven't tried the latest
version of OpenOffice - available free from www.openoffice.org -- but the
price is right for giving it a try.

"SJM" wrote:

I was recently forced to upgrade to a new computer, with Vista installed.
Much of my previous hardware and software won't run under Vista. This
includes Star Office 7. I have a number of documents and spreadsheets, that
I need to view. Is there a free convertion utility, that will let me read
them in MS Office Home & Student 2007 (or anywhere else for that matter).

Convertion of Star Office documents to Microsoft Office
 

In article , Gord Dibben <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote:
As far as I know, Star Office files can be opened directly in Excel

I don't know if 2007 supports this or not.

If the OP still has star office, just 'save as' an xls file from that. If
not, ... well, you could get a version of star office (or open office) which
runs on vista, open the files with that and again, 'save as' ...

HTH


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:54:03 -0700, SJM
wrote:

I was recently forced to upgrade to a new computer, with Vista installed.
Much of my previous hardware and software won't run under Vista. This
includes Star Office 7. I have a number of documents and spreadsheets, that
I need to view. Is there a free convertion utility, that will let me read
them in MS Office Home & Student 2007 (or anywhere else for that matter).