Installing one of the viewers assumes that you have Windows installed :( Wayne
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected] > wrote: > I notice that many LibreOffice experts and users do not have MS Office > installed but need to deal with Microsoft Office files (imported or > exported), especially when attempting to resolve an interchange or > conversion problem. > > There is a relatively easy way to examine MS Office documents. One is to > install one of the supported viewers (which requires a platform on which the > viewers run). Better yet, put the Microsoft Office document up on a free > Windows Live SkyDrive account. Not all features are available under the > in-browser editing option, but the in-browser viewing of Microsoft Office > documents is superb. > > I just verified that with a couple of documents I had been conducting > DOC/OOXML <-> LOffice/ODF forensic work on. You can use SkyDrive in the > browser to make screen shots or you can even arrange to share a file > selectively with other users. Yes, you need to take a deep breath and get a > Windows Live ID. And I don’t know how many different browsers SkyDrive > works smoothly with. > > - Dennis E. Hamilton > Individual OASIS ODF and OIC TC Member > > PS: One missing feature of SkyDrive is a way to download an uploaded DOC in > another format (namely, DOCX). Being able to see the OOXML equivalent is > often quite helpful in understanding how a Word feature is handled without > having to dissect the binary format. > > PPS: I have not experimented with Google Docs for this. There the problem > is that one has to deal with whatever the feature loss is when going to the > internal Google Docs format, especially if trying to get from one external > format to another. It might work well enough, I just haven't needed to find > out. > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
