I repeat the previous assertion, there is nothing outside of MS Office 07 that can read/write the MS Office 07 XML file formats. There are some add-ins and converters that can work with docx but with less fidelity than OpenOffice currently deals with .doc; however the Sun plugin for MS Office does a better job of saving and opening ISO26300 word processor (.odt) files. If you are in a position to do so, it makes more sense to request the MS Office user to install the plugin so they can exchange ISO 26300 files.
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Knott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:57:58 AM (GMT) Europe/London Subject: Re: [users] I am using OpenOffice 2.2 should I be able to open Office 2007 documents russbucket wrote: > On Saturday August 25 2007 17:39, James Knott wrote: > >> Allen & Sarah Eshleman wrote: >> >>> Please respond. >>> >>> Should I be able to open 2007 word documents with OpenOffice 2.2. I >>> cannot at this time. >>> >> No, there is currently nothing, outside of MS Office on Windows, that >> can open those files. >> > James that is not entirely true. There is a converter from MS .docx to > Openoffice .odt and back for the OpenSUSE Linux version of OpenOffice. It > works fine and I've used it regularly. There is also a version for Excel in > the future. > Which version of OO do you have? I have Novell build 2.2.0.1 and it goes as far as Word XML 2003, which (IIRC) is not the same as OOXML. Is it a separate package? -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ Files attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format (OASIS Open Document Format). If you have difficulty opening them, please visit http://openarchaeology.net/iso26300 for more information. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
