On 26/03/2008, G.H. Slotnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Documents developed with Microsoft Office 2007 Word trial software and > with the docx appended do not convert to OpenOffice and are not > compatible. How does one convert these documents?
One downloads the free ODF plugin from Sun Microsystems and installs it in MS Office 2007: <http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/index.jsp>. With the plugin installed in MS Office, open the 2007 document and save it as ODF. Then open the ODF in OpenOffice. If the free trial of Office 2007 has expired you might be able to use an older version of MS Office with Microsoft's "compability pack" installed: < http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100444731033.aspx>. This will let you open the 2007 document in e.g. Office 2003 and then save it in the older pre-2007 format which OpenOffice will be able to read. I believe that version 3 of OpenOffice, due in September, will be able to read MS office 2007 documents. Someone said the new 2.4 version (just released) would be able to do that but the release notes make no mention of it. None of these methods guarantees 100% compability of appearance, layout, etc. etc. I think Macros will also be an issue. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to [email protected]
