OT: I received a purported .doc file which appears to be a zip file full of XMLs

2012-07-16 Thread Binyamin Dissen
I do trust the sender and apparently they cannot (easily?) send me it as a PDF. Neither Word2002(XP) nor Wordpad properly open it. I unzipped it and tried sending the XMLs to IE and Firefox and they didn't do anything. Any ideas? -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com

Re: OT: I received a purported .doc file which appears to be a zip file full of XMLs

2012-07-16 Thread Andrew Rowley
Word 2007 changed to a zipped, XML based file format (.docx). There is an addin to older varions of Word to read 2007 files: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/open-a-word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-HA010044473.aspx Alternatively, the sender might be able to use save

Re: OT: I received a purported .doc file which appears to be a zip file full of XMLs

2012-07-16 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Another alternative that may also be useful for this and other incompatibilities: Download and install Free Apache OpenOffice Suite at http://www.openoffice.org/ , or LibreOffice, a 2010 split-off from OpenOffice (when it was unclear whether OpenOffice development could continue after Oracle

Re: OT: I received a purported .doc file which appears to be a zip file full ...

2012-07-16 Thread Ed Finnell
I saw on the 10 o'clock news that MS is offering Cloud based Office 2013 for trial. Not brave enough to try it on my PC(old). I searched a little but couldn't find a MS link, but found this. _http://msoffice2013.com/tag/office-15/_ (http://msoffice2013.com/tag/office-15/) Don't know if