Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 26 January 2009 23:38:46 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Peter Ruskin
>
> <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 26 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Other than Office 2007 is there any software out there that can
> >> *write* .docx?
> >>
> >> Work requires me to use this format sometimes (it's not
> >> negotiable) and I can get around it 95% of the time, but the 5%
> >> causes me insane amounts of grief. Even though Office2007 runs
> >> perfectly well in CrossOver, I have to put up with that stupid
> >> bouncing ribbon, menus that are not there and <shock> <horror>
> >> <disgust> a productivity app that insists on launching all it's
> >> windows undecorated (this last is the worst of the worst...).
> >>
> >> Ooo-3 can read these docs but not write them.
> >
> > As far as I can see, Ooo-3 _can_ write MSOffice files.  Just open
> > any OpenOffice document and try "Save As".
>
> Does not support writing Office 2007 OOXML format on OOo 3.0 here.
> Only old Office 97-2003 (binary .doc) format.
>
> I think Go-OO has an odf-converter program that can convert OOo
> documents to OOXML but I don't think there is a gentoo package and
> last time I read about it, it was very raw (you'll lose
> data/formatting when converting).

I have a stock standard openoffice-3.0.0 here (not bin) and it claims to write 
Office 2003 XML. I believe from colleagues that this is not the same as 
2007 .docx and I believe them as my Office 2003 in Crossover cannot 
open .docx

I could be wrong though - I don't know all the ins and outs of MS's latest 
format decisions

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