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From: "Detlef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Microsoft Word 2007 - cannot open files
There is a Office2007 to Office 2003/XP/2000 FileFormatConverters.exe file
(28MB) on
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=941B
3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466. Maybe this can help you, but
doc-exchange
using only OOo formats is the much simpler and secure way.
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Von: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gesendet: Montag, 4. Februar 2008 09:11
An: [email protected]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Re: [users] Microsoft Word 2007 - cannot open files
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:19:24 -0500
Joyce Roome wrote:
I am using OpenOffice 2.0 - I cannot open file attachments that have
been sent in Microsoft Word 2007. Can you help!
Neither can more than 99% of users out there. Tell the sender to resend
in Word .DOC format and stop using the Office 2007 orphan document
types.
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Michael
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall
be well
- Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416
Microsoft now has a filter that will alow Office to read/write ODF file
formats.
Even MS is now deciding to support ODF formats. If you Google the right
words, you can find the filter for MS Office. Then, you can ask the sender
of the Office files, send it in ODF, not DOC or XDOC.
OOo will be supporting the MS 2007 formats in the 3.x versions, so I have
read.
MS Office will now support ODF.
Why is Microsoft going so hard at forcing their 2007 formats as a second
ISO standard. They want two "standards". The real reason to have an ISO
file format standard is to stop the need for software supporting many, many,
file formats. ODF won out years ago. Now MS is trying to do nasties to get
the ISO committies to make the 2007 formats "THE" ISO standard over all
others, i.e. ODF.
For now, ask people to send you the documents in the standard .doc, .xls,
.pps
formats. That is the fomats from Office 97/2000/XP (office 97-2003). OOo
can read the formats through Office 2003. I have Office 2003 and have the
filter
to read the 2007 formats, then save it in the office 97/2000/xp formats,
then
read and use it in OOo 2.3.1
I can not wait for OOo 3.x so I do not need that long process. AND I hope
MS does
not muddy the waters with a sucessful bid for their formats to become ISO.
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