It is worse that that
USA government are using the M$2007 formats to do all
of their archives. SO if you want to read a document from
the USA archives, you need M$ or a converter. And the Libruary
of Congress is starting to use non-standard image file formats as well.
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From: "James Knott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [users] How to open Word 2007 files
Deena van Niekerk wrote:
I am using Open Office 2.1 on Windows XP. A friend of mine has
Microsoft Word 2007 and the files arrive with an extension .docx. How
can I open them - I have even tried an old version of Microsoft Word
and it won't work.
Welcome to Microsoft "lock in". Have your friend save in the older .DOC
format, which OpenOffice can open. Or better yet, get your friend to
install OpenOffice.
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