Manfred J. Krause wrote:
> Hi James, *,
>
> 2007/12/9, James Knott wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone have a Word document in the new DOXC format that I can test
>> with?  It doesn't have to be anything special.  Just some text from
>> somewhere (such as this list), perhaps with a bit of formatting, saved
>> as DOCX.  [...]
>>     
>
> Please see  ->
> <http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/test-docs/docx/optional/>
>
>   

I decided to try a couple of experiments to see if I could open the new Word
DOCX files. I tried two methods. One was Novell's version of OpenOffice, as
included (and updated) in OpenSUSE 10.3. The other was to use Word
Viewer 2003
and Compatibility Pack on XP. The Compatibility Pack is required, to
enable the
Word Viewer to open DOCX files. Using Word Viewer, the documents I obtained
looked normal. However, in OpenOffice the formating was off (i.e. single
line
spacing instead of double) and things like tables or images didn't make it,
though the table text did. So, it appears Novell's support allows little
more
than text recovery and features such as images and tables are not
supported. If
they provided that using the published OOXML specs, then perhaps those specs
need more work.

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