OpenOffice to Word Conversion Needed

May 10, 2006 5:45 AM

How can I convert OpenOffice formatted files to MS Word?

I have several hundred files created and saved in OpenOffice writer with the native OpenOffice format (some OO 1.1, some OO 2.0). I need to open these files using MS Word. (You need reasons? OK. I've already got a full legal copy of Word and I've tried using NeoOffice on my Mac but it's too slow and self-confessedly buggy to be usable.)

I have access to Word on both Mac and Windows; I have OpenOffice for Windows; I have Windows and Mac boxen. What I don't have is the time to open each file in OO and "save as Word format. Is there a way to batch convert these files from OO to Word? Am I doomed to a day of "open, save as, close"?

Help me, MeFi. You're my only hope.

posted by mikewas to computers & internet (4 comments total)

Here's a set of OpenOffice batch conversion scripts, including one to save as Word.
posted by zsazsa at 5:55 AM on May 10, 2006

Will the document converter macro [source] work for you?
posted by jessamyn at 5:58 AM on May 10, 2006

One of these solutions ought to do the trick. I'll take a crack at 'em and let you know what my results were.

Thanks!
posted by mikewas at 7:34 AM on May 10, 2006

While I know that OpenOffice on the OS X isn't as pretty as native applications since it relies on X11, I still find it to work wonderfully and find it far more useful than NeoOffice. Just saying, you can just use OpenOffice 2.0 on both computers as well.
posted by chrisroberts at 9:15 AM on May 10, 2006