Thank you all! Really appreciate the responses. I've been pointed to the
press email address -- much appreciated.
Best--Paul
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Geoffrey Hartwell <
hartw...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> The .docx option did not appear available in a recently installed version
> of AOO in Windows 10, if that's any help
>
> With kind regards,
> Geoffrey Hartwell
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> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Heltzel [mailto:phelt...@gmail.com]
> Sent: 24 January 2018 19:56
> To: users@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Question, story for Computerworld
>
> Thanks Glen. I have installed AOO on a PC, just looking to confirm that
> saving as .docx is a feature of LibreOffice but not of OpenOffice. That's
> what I'm seeing, along with what I mentioned, that AOO can save, for
> example, Word or Excel files as .xml (but I'm not sure why you might want
> to, what the Office 2003/xml version means).
>
> I'm hoping to reach one of the AOO developers.
>
> Best--Paul
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Glen Kohler wrote:
>
> > Paul—
> >
> > You might consider downloading and installing AOO for research.
> >
> > 4.1.5 for Mac does not save in .docx. It does save as MS 2003 in .xml.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Glen
> >
> > On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:15 AM, Paul Heltzel wrote:
> >
> > > Hi--
> > >
> > > I'm trying to confirm something for a story for Computerworld, on
> > > alternatives to MS Office.
> > >
> > > In Apache OpenOffice, you can't save as .docx, is that correct?
> > >
> > > I noticed that this is possible in LibreOffice.
> > >
> > > In OpenOffice, I attempted to save as Microsoft 2003/XML and was
> > > prompted to first download Java. After doing so, my Apache
> > > OpenOffice Writer saved with an .xml extension.
> > >
> > > Can I just confirm that Apache OpenOffice does not write .docx files?
> > > And what would be the scenario where someone would prefer to save as
> > > Microsoft Word 2003 XML (.xml)?
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> > >
> > > Best,
> > >
> > > Paul
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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