Support for .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx was included in OpenOffice starting with version 3.0
For versions 2.x.x I had some limited success in the past with the addon issued by Novell for Suse ported to Fedora which I used at the time, and still using it today. You can find the addon for download here: http://download.novell.com/index.jsp?product_id=&search=Search&families=3402&version=&date_range=&keywords=&sort_by=&x=35&y=9 A quick google search revealed several guides on how to implement the odf-converter on several distros. Here is for Fedora: http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/convert-openxml-docx-etc-in-linux-using.html The comments after the article give some clues as to how to overcome potential hurdles. This is a link that may be useful for Slackware users: http://www.ihav.net/vb/technozone/open-docx-files-openoffice-org-new-linux-user-143982.html and this one for Ubuntu users: http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/how-to-get-docx-working-in-linux/ If you only want to see the files, you can use the viewers provided by the software vendor available for download from their website and run under wine. Of course, best solution is to upgrade your OO to version 3. HTH, Adrian On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 10:41 +1200, Leif Keane wrote: > linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz writes: > >Could someone please advise what readers are available for ms docx > >(xml) files. > > open office. > > Leif >
