On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: >> Note that those [the freeware Microsoft viewers for Word, Excel, and >> Powerpoint document files] will not open .docx files: ... > > > Natively, this is true, but read on ... > > >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891090 "Please note that there was not a >> Word Viewer created for Word Viewer 2007 or Word Viewer 2010. To view Word >> 2007 and 2010 documents, please download the following link and install the >> Office Compatibility Pack noted below" >> >> I like the typos on the MS site! The "following link" links to an Office >> Compatibility Pack for older versions of MS Office, so those with no MS >> Office installed cannot view Word 2007/2010 files. > > > I think you miss the point here: the instruction is both to download (the > viewer) and install the Compatibility Pack. > > The Compatibility Pack is indeed intended for systems with Microsoft Office > XP (2002) or 2003 and it enables those versions of Office, as modified, to > open, edit, and save documents in the new "x" formats. But it is equally > applicable to the freeware viewers (which are effectively cut-down versions > of components of Office 2003) and enables the viewers, as similarly > modified, to open, display, and print documents in the newer formats too. >
Hi, Brian. Are you suggesting that the compatibility packs update the Word | Powerpoint | Excel Viewers? I understood that to not be the case when I last tried some years ago (~2009, and the code has not been updated since I see). -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
