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Subject: [users]  Re: word 2007 docx documents
Date: Tuesday June 12 2007 17:20
From: NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]

On 06/12/2007 03:25 PM, Russell Butler wrote:
> Howard Sallee wrote:
>> Are you using Internet Explorer?  I tried with Mozilla and couldn't get
>> it to work either.  Had to go with IE.
>>
>>
>> Howard Sallee, pastor
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pueblo Native"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 10:23 AM
>> Subject: Re: [users] word 2007 docx documents
>>
>>> M Henri Day wrote:
>>>> For those interested, here's an abbreviated, but fully functional link
>>>> to a
>>>> download site for the programme, which Microsoft calls  «Microsoft
>>>> Office
>>>> Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats» :
>>>>
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/3xr4tt
>>>
>>> Maybe I'm not seeing it, but it still doesn't let OpenOffice open and
>>> save those files, or am I missing something.
>
> I just managed to initiate the download using Linux version of Firefox,
> so browsers don't appear to be a total obstacle.
>
> I notice that they say it will also work with the Microsoft Office Word
> Viewer 2003, Excel Viewer 2003, and PowerPoint Viewer 2003, so Windows
> users should be able to at least view these files. Has anyone given that
> a try? Looking at the description, it appears that only copying or
> printing is available from the viewers.
> See http://tinyurl.com/64atx
>
> Not a solution for Mac/Linux users however.
>
> Russell

Interestingly enough Novell, which have their patent protection
agreement with Microsoft, have such a filter in their version of OOo, see:

http://applications.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/12/1654255

One wonders why Novell/Suse haven't released this as an opensource
add-in that any linux OOo user can use? Perhaps they have... does anyone
know?
Actually the filter you mention for OpenOffice from Novell will only work with 
Novell version of OOo so I'm told. It will not open xlsx documents yet. I've 
used it sucessfully to send and recieve docx documents from Openoffice on 
SUSE 10.2 (Novell) linux.

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