Hi Guys, I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft Word 2007 can open and read all odt files. They have provided a add-in converter. If you have MsOffice on your PC and you double click an odt file, it gets the converter (once only) and installs it in MsOffice
I found this when a business associate to whom i send a odt file was able to open it without issues :-)
Regards Saswata
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 11:52:15 am Saswata Banerjee wrote:
I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft Word 2007 can open and read all odt files.
great achievement - please congratulate your friend
On 2/4/2010 11:58 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 11:52:15 am Saswata Banerjee wrote:
I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft Word 2007 can open and read all odt files.
great achievement - please congratulate your friend
I was talking of it as an achievement for Open Office, not for my friend The fact that it has become common enough or large enough for Microsoft to provide a converter for its files.
Rony, this may be of interest to your clients who are using OO in part of the systems and only MSOffice in others
regards saswata
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 12:22:01 pm Saswata Banerjee wrote:
On 2/4/2010 11:58 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 11:52:15 am Saswata Banerjee wrote:
I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft Word 2007 can open and read all odt files.
great achievement - please congratulate your friend
I was talking of it as an achievement for Open Office, not for my friend
to discover what must be a well hidden secret feature of M$ is an achievement for your friend.
Sweet! Did not know this
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.orgwrote:
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 12:22:01 pm Saswata Banerjee wrote:
On 2/4/2010 11:58 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 11:52:15 am Saswata Banerjee wrote:
I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft
Word
2007 can open and read all odt files.
great achievement - please congratulate your friend
I was talking of it as an achievement for Open Office, not for my friend
to discover what must be a well hidden secret feature of M$ is an achievement for your friend. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Saswata Banerjee scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
On 2/4/2010 11:58 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 11:52:15 am Saswata Banerjee wrote:
I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft Word 2007 can open and read all odt files.
great achievement - please congratulate your friend
I was talking of it as an achievement for Open Office, not for my friend The fact that it has become common enough or large enough for Microsoft to provide a converter for its files.
Rony, this may be of interest to your clients who are using OO in part of the systems and only MSOffice in others
is it with or without any additional plugin?
- Nagarjuna
On 2/4/2010 12:49 PM, Nagarjuna G wrote:
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Saswata Banerjee scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
On 2/4/2010 11:58 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 11:52:15 am Saswata Banerjee wrote:
I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft Word 2007 can open and read all odt files.
great achievement - please congratulate your friend
I was talking of it as an achievement for Open Office, not for my friend The fact that it has become common enough or large enough for Microsoft to provide a converter for its files.
Rony, this may be of interest to your clients who are using OO in part of the systems and only MSOffice in others
is it with or without any additional plugin?
Nagarjuna
There is a plugin called OdfAddInForOffice you have to install that and thereafter it works. I just spoke to my friend in bangalore again this afternoon and he was not able to tell me where he downloaded it from but he said it shows up on google :-) (note - he is a non-techie)
Hope this helps.
regards saswata
Saswata Banerjee wrote:
On 2/4/2010 12:49 PM, Nagarjuna G wrote:
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Saswata Banerjee scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
On 2/4/2010 11:58 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 11:52:15 am Saswata Banerjee wrote:
I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft Word 2007 can open and read all odt files.
great achievement - please congratulate your friend
I was talking of it as an achievement for Open Office, not for my friend The fact that it has become common enough or large enough for Microsoft to provide a converter for its files.
Rony, this may be of interest to your clients who are using OO in part of the systems and only MSOffice in others
is it with or without any additional plugin?
Nagarjuna
There is a plugin called OdfAddInForOffice you have to install that and thereafter it works. I just spoke to my friend in bangalore again this afternoon and he was not able to tell me where he downloaded it from but he said it shows up on google :-) (note - he is a non-techie)
These are official plugins from M$. There is also a plugin for opening 2007 docs in 2003.
Anyway OpenOffice does not open .docx files too. In doze, the best FOSS option for all file formats is OxygenOffice. It is a modified enhancement of OO. It also has the option of saving files in 2007 .docx format. I am not supporting that format but just highlighting OxygenOffice's wide compatibility.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway OpenOffice does not open .docx files too. In doze, the best FOSS option for all file formats is OxygenOffice. It is a modified enhancement of OO. It also has the option of saving files in 2007 .docx format. I am not supporting that format but just highlighting OxygenOffice's wide compatibility.
To the best of my knowledge, OpenOffice 3 can read docx file but cannot save in docx format. In the "Open" dialog box OpenOffice 3 does give me option of Microsoft Word 2007 XML and Microsoft Word 2007 XML Template.
Mehul Ved wrote:
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Anyway OpenOffice does not open .docx files too. In doze, the best FOSS option for all file formats is OxygenOffice. It is a modified enhancement of OO. It also has the option of saving files in 2007 .docx format. I am not supporting that format but just highlighting OxygenOffice's wide compatibility.
To the best of my knowledge, OpenOffice 3 can read docx file but cannot save in docx format. In the "Open" dialog box OpenOffice 3 does give me option of Microsoft Word 2007 XML and Microsoft Word 2007 XML Template.
I had installed OO3 on doze machines and could not open .docx files. In my Lenny I use 2.4 and had to request my client who uses the legal 2007, to resend his file in old doc format. OxygenOffice works wonders. I had even searched for plugins in OO's database but could not find support for docx.
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
Mehul Ved wrote: I had installed OO3 on doze machines and could not open .docx files. In my Lenny I use 2.4 and had to request my client who uses the legal 2007, to resend his file in old doc format. OxygenOffice works wonders. I had even searched for plugins in OO's database but could not find support for docx.
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/3.0/#Microsoft_Office_2007_Impor...
On 02/04/2010 06:38 PM, Rony wrote:
Saswata Banerjee wrote:
On 2/4/2010 12:49 PM, Nagarjuna G wrote:
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Saswata Banerjee scrapo@saswatabanerjee.com wrote:
On 2/4/2010 11:58 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Thursday 04 Feb 2010 11:52:15 am Saswata Banerjee wrote:
I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft Word 2007 can open and read all odt files.
great achievement - please congratulate your friend
I was talking of it as an achievement for Open Office, not for my friend The fact that it has become common enough or large enough for Microsoft to provide a converter for its files.
Rony, this may be of interest to your clients who are using OO in part of the systems and only MSOffice in others
is it with or without any additional plugin?
Nagarjuna
There is a plugin called OdfAddInForOffice you have to install that and thereafter it works. I just spoke to my friend in bangalore again this afternoon and he was not able to tell me where he downloaded it from but he said it shows up on google :-) (note - he is a non-techie)
These are official plugins from M$. There is also a plugin for opening 2007 docs in 2003.
Anyway OpenOffice does not open .docx files too.
It does open in OpenOffice 3 I use it all the time
In doze, the best FOSS option for all file formats is OxygenOffice. It is a modified enhancement of OO. It also has the option of saving files in 2007 .docx format. I am not supporting that format but just highlighting OxygenOffice's wide compatibility.
On 02/04/2010 08:39 PM, Rony wrote:
Saswata Banerjee& Associates wrote:
On 02/04/2010 06:38 PM, Rony wrote:
Anyway OpenOffice does not open .docx files too.
It does open in OpenOffice 3 I use it all the time
In Linux or Doze?
i think i have always used windows for that, but OO should do the same thing irrespective of windows and linux
On 02/04/2010 11:52 AM, Saswata Banerjee wrote:
Hi Guys, I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft Word 2007 can open and read all odt files. They have provided a add-in converter. If you have MsOffice on your PC and you double click an odt file, it gets the converter (once only) and installs it in MsOffice
I found this when a business associate to whom i send a odt file was able to open it without issues :-)
Not much of an achievement considering that the odt format is an *open* format, so anyone who can read specifications and write software to match those can create a odt reader/editor, unlike proprietary formats (or in case of ooxml bad, over general and patent dependent ^standard^), where creating a reader/writer is not only a technical issue (if the format has to be reverse engineered) but also a legal issue (if implementing such software would imply 'infringing' on patents).
So, basically it is the same as Microsoft's contribution to the linux kernel -- not really noteworthy since they do it only because they can.
cheers, - steve
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