On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Gus Wirth <[email protected]> wrote: > Lief Hendrickson wrote: >> I received a Word file that has the extension ".docx". This is on a >> machine with Fedora 3.0. When I click on a file with a ".doc" >> extension, OpenOffic.org 1.1.3 comes up and opens the file with no >> problem. However, when I click on the file with a ".docx" extension, >> File Roller 2.8.1 comes up and displays file lists instead of the >> contents of the Word document. >> Can someone comment on how to open the ".docx" file? Thanks. > > To answer your question, the easiest thing would be to rename the file > to have .doc extension. This wouldn't be right from a Microsoft > viewpoint but who cares? This might not work with OpenOffice because > your version of OpenOffice is so old. A more sophisticated approach > would be to change the file associations in your file browser to launch > OpenOffice for .docx files.
Actually, renaming the files won't do anything. Docx is the new file type created by Word 2007 (Win) / 2008 (Mac). It's actually a compressed archive file with XML data inside, which is why File Roller opens it. There's a program called OdfConverter that you can use to convert .docx (and .xlsx and .pptx) to OpenOffice formats (.odt, etc.). http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/convert-openxml-docx-etc-in-linux-using.html -- Brad Beyenhof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://augmentedfourth.com Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards. ~ Fred Hoyle, English astronomer & mathematician (1915 - 2001) -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
