On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Gus Wirth <[email protected]> wrote: > Brad Beyenhof wrote: >> 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. > > 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.
That hasn't been my experience, but likely because I'm using the OpenOffice in the default CentOS repos, and it probably isn't new enough to understand .docx natively. And if an up-to-date Cent5 machine won't read them out-of-the-box, I very highly doubt Fedora 3 will without some sort of manual intervention (either an OO upgrade or installation of the converter). -- 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
