Brad Beyenhof wrote: > 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
Renaming WILL work because the file associations use the same brain-dead method as MS Windows: file extension. But only if you have a new enough OpenOffice that understands docx formats as pointed out by Rich Ernst. Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
