On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:20:55 -0500 web at work wrote: > From: "Detlef" > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Michael Adams > > Gesendet: Montag, 4. Februar 2008 09:11 > > > > > > 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. > > > > -- > > 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. >
No they don't, Not really. If you try to download it, install it and use it you will see they have hamstrung the OFFICIAL ODF filter quite badly. > Why is Microsoft going so hard at forcing their 2007 formats as a > second ISO standard. They want two "standards". They want their format to be _the_ standard. When they found out that ODF had gained ISO acreditation they felt they could conceivably loose ground big time. Actually htey were on the board of the organisation that put forward ODF to ISO at the time. It just took them time to swing into action. > 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. LOL November 2006 - Nearly 2 years. > 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. > Actually 2007's .DOCX, .XLSX and .PPTX do not support the prospective OOXML standard as published. Microsoft calls them Office(2007) Open XML formats. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338205.aspx#office2007aboutnewfileformat_introduction or http://tinyurl.com/2hs8kw If OOXML does get to ISO standard and Microsoft does _choose_ to support it, they will have to modify their existing format leaving the current 2007 .DOCX et al as orphans. > 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. > Given the above, a new round of OOXML to ODF filters will need to be designed when OOXML is settled, whether it be as pile of dust or as an ISO standard. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
