On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 06:36, Anton Shterenlikht <me...@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > I often receive information in *.docx format > from my MS using colleagues. Sometimes I can > ask for a pdf (or similar) instead, but not always. > > Usually I unzip a docx and then search > through all *xml files to find the > useful data. However, I can't find any > xml styles to use, so I have to convert > the relevant xml file(s) to plain text > by hand. I wonder if anybody can suggest > a better way. Perhaps there's something > in ports that can help.
My installation of OpenOffice 3.3 on my Win7 machine will open a Winword 2010 .docx file. I'm guessing it will do the same on FreeBSD, but I don't have an install with a GUI running at the moment. Kurt _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
