James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Shelton wrote: >> Isn't Open Office reportedly able to open .doc documents? >> >> Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not be a zealot or >> anything, but I thought that the regular readers of this list might >> like to know that today I withdrew my membership from >> my university's Green (environmental) club because they insist upon >> sending mail as word documents. I told them that there was no sense >> in >> them sending me messages that I simply could not open, and that >> escalated into "deal with it, open source zealot". So I decided not >> to >> deal with it. >> >> > > It normally does, other than the new .DOCX format from Office 2007. > Then again, newsletters etc., should be send as PDF, not Word or > OpenOffice documents. Oh I forgot, you can't generate a PDF with > Word, unless you get some 3rd party software.
Good point; I think you CAN create a PDF with 2007. Just not earlier versions. But it clarifies a revision of Word the OP is trying to open and says he can't. He should be able to open Word's .DOC files just fine. I -think- the DOCX format means XML, too. Twayne --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
