[gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-26, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: These are shared documents. I can't just change what they are based on my own preferences. I need an app that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 17:46:46 Grant Edwards wrote: I realize I'm arguing a moot point, but using something like .docx for shared documents that need to be maintained by multiple people for a long time (more than a month or two) is a dead awful choice. A plain ascii text file is

[gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009 17:46:46 Grant Edwards wrote: I realize I'm arguing a moot point, but using something like .docx for shared documents that need to be maintained by multiple people for a long time (more than a month or two)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-26, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: These are shared documents. I can't just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 15:16, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-26, Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Daniel da Veiga danieldave...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 15:16, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Grant Edwards gra...@visi.com wrote: On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:

[gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: I have a stock standard openoffice-3.0.0 here (not bin) and it claims to write Office 2003 XML. I believe from colleagues that this is not the same as 2007 .docx and I believe them as my Office 2003 in Crossover cannot open .docx I could be wrong though - I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 00:16:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I have a stock standard openoffice-3.0.0 here (not bin) and it claims to write Office 2003 XML. I believe from colleagues that this is not the same as 2007 .docx and I believe them as my Office 2003 in

[gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-26, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: These are shared documents. I can't just change what they are based on my own preferences. I need an app that WRITES .docx. If Office 2007 is the only one that does it, so be it. But a workaround or another way to skin this cat is