Your link has "This hack no longer works. If you need a file converted I might help if you email it to computerjoe (at) gmail (dot) com," as a subtitle.
According to this, http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/12/1654255 nothing works, so you will have to tell the sender that you can't read what they have for you. If they really care that you can read, they will comply. The ODF translator for word mentioned may work but has issues. The only thing you can really be sure of is if the sender gets and uses Open Office themself. No! Hold the phone, gmail seems to do it. http://www.16punches.com/2007/03/16/another-idea-for-dealing-with-docx-files/ Mail it to yourself and let us know if it works or not. The above author complained but it looks like you can get the text or an odf. On Friday 18 May 2007 7:41 am, Karthik Poobalasubramanian wrote: > I have started receiving documents stored in docx format and can't > open it in word 2003 or openoffice. I found this > http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/01/26/dismantling-a-docx/ > which is true. docx is basically a zip file with xml files and word > document. My problem is I can't seem to find the .doc in it. The > author of the website does state that the hack doesn't work anymore. > Anyone else know how to open these files without access to Office > 2007? > > Karthik > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
