[olpc-help] OpenOffice Files in Write Activity?

[Rick Emery]

We got an XO for our 10-year-old son for Christmas. He had been  
working on some documents in OpenOffice on our home computer, and we'd  
like to transfer them to his XO. They are currently saved in .odt  
format, with embedded images as well as text.

I copied one of the documents to a USB thumb drive, then copied it  
into the Journal. I tried to "resume" the document from the Journal,  
and it appeared to try to start the Write activity. But the Write  
activity seems to just hang at "Starting". The next time I tried it, I  
started terminal, and then watched what was going on with the "top"  
command. The Write activity consumed most of the processor, and when  
it stopped, a "ps aux" showed that the Write process was "defunct".

Is there a way to move his documents over without losing the  
formatting? Will he be able to continue working on the documents  
without re-creating them from scratch?

I know the Write activity is based on AbiWord...can it open/edit  
OpenOffice files? Is there a format that OpenOffice can write that the  
Write activity can open and edit?

Thanks in advance for any help.
Rick