On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:42:56 -0700 RA Brown <[email protected]> dijo:
>> Double-clicking on it made Fedora try to open it in Gedit. That was >> not a good choice. Then I dimly recalled that OOo uses xml, so I >> tried opening it in Writer. Writer opened it, but all I got was >> pages and pages of what looks like code, interspersed with what >> appears to be the text of the article. It's there, but an unreadable >> mess. >> >> Google informs me that xml is Microsoft's new open document format. >> OK, I don't have MS Office, but back I go to OOo for further >> checking. It turns out that in OOo (3.3, from OOo, not Fedora repos) >> I can do File > Open New > XML document. However, there appears no >> way to open an existing xml file. >> >> So now I'm all gestumped. >> >> I could always schlep the CD back to the university, open it on a >> university computer that has MS Office, and save as something else. >> But surely I won't have to do that. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions? Can OOo "import" the file so it is >> readable? >Do you have access to Kword? Just tried and it views an xml file >without the coding that you describe. I am looking to install some >other xml editors and see what they do. I didn't have Kword, but now I do. :) However, Kword won't open the file. All I get is errors like "wrong file type." I tried File > Open, File > Import and dragging and dropping the file onto Kword. I also tried right-clicking on the file in Nautilus and selecting Open With > Kword. Someone else suggesting making a copy of the file and renaming it to *.docx. Renaming the copy was easy enough, but Kword won't open it, and OOo opens it as code with the text interspersed. But thanks for the suggestion, even if it didn't work! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
