LyX ⇒ Export to Open Office

[Margaret]

I am a newbie to Lyx and can't work out how to export a document to Open Office. When I try this on the menu, the program appears to be going through the motions but the output never appears, and no OO file is saved. Am I missing a vital step somewhere? I would be grateful for any suggestions.
I am using Lyx for Windows on an XP platform

[Gusto]

Hello,
after reading your posting I tried to export a Lyx-file to a RTF-file. Clicking on file > export > Rich Text Format I get the following error message:

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Did you get an error message, too?
Then I tried to export in Plain Text. Clicking in file > export > Plain Text gives me a file for my text editor. But all the ä, ü, ö disappeared. Importing this text file in Open Office was no problem.
I am using Lyx 1.4.3 on Mac OSX

[Margaret]

No, I don't get an error message. Export to Plain text works fine but then I obviously lose all the formatting, so it's not much use to me.

[Void]

The savest way in my opinion is to export as html and import the file in OpenOffice.org.

This way works fine for me even to other text processers like M$ Word.

[Margaret]

Thanks for that suggestion- I did try to export to HTML but that gave exactly the same response - no file and no message. I've decided for my current project Open Office will have to do so I've exported as text and spent more than a little time re-formatting many pages of text. Maybe later I'll come back to Lyx when I have a document to do where I'm not restricted to one font, and specific format.