I reciently tried to convert an Open Office document to a word file format using  save as  in Open Office. The document that was produced, when opened in word was completly scrambled. The “save as ” did not seem to work for me. The solution that I came accross was to upload the file to google docs and then gave google docs save it as a word document. When I opened the document that was converted by google docs It appeared perfectly . If there are any other solutions to this problem I would be intrested to hear them.