2008/1/30, Jean-Christophe Helary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Marcia, > > You seem to be a Mac user. Can you confirm that ? > > Most users of Microsoft Office 2007 (for Windows) or 2008 (for Mac) > are not aware that their system is configured to output pptx or docx > files. The reason is that Microsoft wants everybody to upgrade to > their new systems. > > The current accepted way to open .pptx or .docx sent by a Microsoft > Office 2007-2008 user is to ask the sender to re-send the files in the > older format. > > On Mac, if you use the latest version of the operating system (OSX > 10.5 also known as "Leopard") you can use the application TextEdit to > read the contents of a docx file. Some contents will not be properly > displayed though. > > OpenOffice.org is not related to Microsoft Office and does not offer > yet the ability to open Microsoft Office 2007-2008 files. It does > offer compatibility with the previous versions of the Microsoft Office > Suite. > > > Jean-Christophe Helary > > > On 30 janv. 08, at 23:51, Marcia McMahon Mastroddi wrote: > > > Hello all; > > I am teaching online at a university and want to download open > > office for mac 2004. > > I currently run Office 2003 professional. Is there any problem in > > using both programs at the same time? I have issues with opening > > pptx or docx from the vista programs. > > while I realize there is a patch for that, it will not work on my > > mac. I called apple. > > Any thing to beware of in downloading Open office for mac? Or is > > there one? > > Thanks again > > Marci
Hello Marci, You can find OpenOffice.org for Mac (it's not called 2004, the latest version is 2.3.1) here: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ Better read the How-To's. You'll have to choose the right download according to your type of Mac (PowerPC or Intel) and your operating system (Panther, Tiger, Leopard / 10.3 10.4 or 10.5). You'll also need to install (under Panther and Tiger) the windowing program X11. For Panther you can download it from the Apple site, for Tiger you'll find it on the install disks ( X11User.pkg). Leopard installs X11 by default. This may seem a bit complicated, but in the end it works quite fine. If you bump into problems, just ask the list! -- Guy using dutch OOo 2.3 m221 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo SRC 680 m241 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to [email protected] -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
