Hey Dave,
You are correct; MicroShaft has gone and done it again to us consumers. They changed the format of how documents are saved. All formats now end in an "x". You are in luck though, M$ has put out a compatibility plugin for Microsoft Office 2000 and 2003 so we can read and somewhat edit docx files. Here is the download URL - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf196df0-70e5-4595- 8a98-370278f40c57 <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cf196df0-70e5-4595 -8a98-370278f40c57&DisplayLang=en> &DisplayLang=en I use a free file converter for making PDF files in Office Suite called PDF995 - http://www.pdf995.com <http://www.pdf995.com/> David W. Dyson Sr. Network Analyst Information Systems Department (ISD) Contour Fabricators, Inc MCSE, MCSA, N+, A+, Security+, Server+, Linux+ Disclaimer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 3:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] docx If my information is correct I believe Microsoft have been doing a rather dirty trick. Their latest version of Office, Office2007 appears to save documents in a form which requires a download from Microsoft to be able to read it, .docx, and this is real nasty. I run both Office2003 and openoffice.org and use both on my PC (openoffice.org lets me convert documents to .pdf which I need from time to time). This means that legitimate Microsoft Office users such as myself have to get a download patch from Microsoft and I'm not sure how far back the patch works - there are still legitimate users of Office97! I will be interested to see if the linux community come up with a patch for openoffice.org which I am sure won't be able to open .docx files. In the meantime I would suggest that if Office97 offers the choice to save work in older formats this should be considered as there must be millions who need to be able to read .doc. This must also affect other version office users? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
