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Title: DOCX
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2008.10.17, 14:08:38

I'm receiving text files with extention DOCX, which ought be last ms-word exstention.

I'm using open office 2.0

How can I open them?

Thanks for suggestions and directions

Onlineuser2

Title: Re: DOCX
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.10.17, 17:12:27
It appears that there is a GNU application that can convert OOXML to ODF on the commandline, but this feature is not yet built into OpenOffice.
Title: Re: DOCX
Post by: warpcafe on 2008.10.21, 10:23:46
Hi,

at least with OpenOffice.org 3.0 (yes, on the "evil" OS...) I had success in using that M$crap doc format.
Also, there's compatibility packs for M$O 2003 to deal with them (beware, sometimes there's issues using the comp.pack stuff to write docx from M$O2003...).

Cheers,
Thomas
Title: Re: DOCX
Post by: Pete on 2008.10.21, 18:11:37
Hi Onlineuser2

I suspect that you may need to reply to the sender(s) of the docx files with words to the effect of "Please resend documents in Wordx format as I have no way of opening and reading the docx format files. Thank You" - where you substitute whatever you prefer for the x on the end of Word eg Word 2007.

Regards

Pete

Title: Re: DOCX
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2008.10.21, 20:28:06
That's exactly what I did.
The problem remains (and it may grow in future) about how working around.
Thanks
onlineuser2
Title: Re: DOCX
Post by: abwillis on 2008.10.22, 01:11:22
I saw a report on one of the lists that there were screenshots of 00 3.0 on OS/2, and that it was in testing and completion.  I don't know how long that will take but OO 3.0 can read docx files.  So hopefully before it becomes a huge problem though it will be released.
Title: Re: DOCX
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2008.10.22, 10:52:08
good news
thanks
onlineuser2
Title: Re: DOCX
Post by: PAUL555 on 2008.10.22, 14:47:41
DOCX created by Microsoft Word 2007.Just inform the sender of the document to save the document in word 2003 doc / rtf format. That should be readable in Open office. 

Paul
Title: Re: DOCX
Post by: rwklein on 2008.12.18, 14:39:51
Quote from: onlineuser2 on 2008.10.22, 10:52:08
good news
thanks
onlineuser2

I talked to Joachim. We have an internal test build of OpenOffice 3.0 running on eCS.
We showed this at Warpstock. However we will skip Open Office 3.0 and we will release Open Office 3.1 in March of next year.

Roderick Klein
Mensys
Title: Re: DOCX
Post by: onlineuser2 on 2008.12.18, 16:19:44
good work! waiting for...
Title: Re: DOCX
Post by: Saijin_Naib on 2008.12.19, 19:38:19
Microsoft Office interoperability
Microsoft has sponsored the development of a converter from Office Open XML to OpenDocument format and back. Its source code is licensed under a liberal BSD license at odf-converter.sourceforge.net. Novell is distributing builds of that converter (bundled with GNU GPL and LGPL licensed libraries).[21] This allows OOo to read and write Office Open XML documents in OpenOffice.org. As of October 2008 it works only with the latest Novell edition of OpenOffice.org and others that include the same patches.

[text excerpt from wiki article about OpenOffice]