Comments on: Help! A .docx File

By: CoreDownload

CoreDownload — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:57:12 +0000

If it’s an urgent issue and you don’t have a solution, send me the file and I will convert it to a standard *.doc . I have Office 2007 on one PC, and I do this for all files that are *.docx After that I can use them on my laptop.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:20:12 +0000

(By the way, the patch above is for OpenOffice).

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:19:46 +0000

http://www.novell.com/prblogs/?p=299

^ This is a patch by Novell for Open Office that’ll let you open Open XML documents (like .docx).

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:35:48 +0000

Open office has fixed the problem and the latest version happily opens ALL new Office 2007 file formats.

By: Meh

Meh — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:48:26 +0000

I found this out on Linux after I downloaded it and it opened with Archive manager. Interesting

By: Drake Mallard

Drake Mallard — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:20:20 +0000

@David

Try to understand my post before you make claims about what I say.

As I said before, I was just joking (the “;D” may be a helpful hint to make that clear).

I’m not into beating up MS every moment of my life,
and I’m not a Linux/GNU/FSF fundamentalist either.

And I didn’t criticize MS for adopting a better standard, in fact that’s a wise thing to do. I would have been nice if they had done the same with HTML and Javascript for example.

Anyway, I don’t know how much crap is enough. Sometimes they don’t deserve it, but sometimes they really do.

Have a nice day.

By: David

David — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:52:45 +0000

Drake – try to understand the software before you make claims about MS stealing this “feature.” This works as a result of the docx format being based on XML.

Microsoft gets enough crap, but it’s just stupid to criticize them for adopting a better standard. It would be like criticizing them for making CD burning software that works with standard CD formats.

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By: PolOZ

PolOZ — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:50:14 +0000

Of course it does.
@Nukka: Yes, we need worldwide standards, and OO is fully compatible with all those standards, whereas MS only seems to work well with HIS OWN format.
We need to be free to choose the file format we prefer, knowing that our recipient will be able to view, edit and (if he wants) convert it. This is the spirit of free business. There’s no point in imposing a standard, if your software is able to read all standards. You only do it if you want to compel everybody to buy an unnecessarily expensive application.

By: Franklyn

Franklyn — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:58:25 +0000

I believe the latest version of open office supports docx . correct me if I’m wrong.