how can we make Linux more accessible for a bigger public?

[Bas Roufs]

Hello Sinclair and Everybody Else

A few days ago, I shared you a recent experience on on non-effective
Linux promotion.....

> > Recently I installed a dual boot system at a laptop of friends of me:
> > Kubuntu 10.04 LTS next to Windows XP.  The friends in question are no
> > computer experts, but also not totally computer illiterate.

One of the useful suggestions you gave, Sinclair, was as follows:

> .... I set Openoffice to save in the MS Office formats automatically, ...........

This would solve about 90% of the problems the friends I told about
have. That's why, I have been trying to figure out how I could
configure OpenOffice in such a way, that it automatically saves in the
MS Office formats - notably .doc (Writer), .xls (Calc) and .ppd
(Presentation). I have looked via EXTRA > options. However, I did not
yet manage to find the exactly right approach. So, please, could you
tell a bit more concretely how you did manage to change the OpenOffice
settings with a view to automatically saving in the MS Office formats.

Respectfully Yours,

Bas.