On Tuesday 13 January 2004 09:02 am, robin wrote:
Bryan Phinney wrote:
On Monday 12 January 2004 11:36 pm, vikrant joshi wrote:
I have Windows and Linux on same machine . Is there a way I can acces the windows files eg word or excel file through Linux. Do we need to install any software for that . If yes then where do we get that software from
You need to specify the version. Office XP files use a proprietary format that still hasn't been reverse engineered by OS developers, I think. Any previous version of Office should be trivial for OpenOffice, KOffice, as well as a number of other replacements.
AFAIK, OpenOffice will read Word XP files.
My info may be dated. I am still on version 1.02 of Open Office and the last time I did some research, there were still some compatibility problems with some XP file formats. Version 1.1 is supposed to be fully compatible according to the website, but I am not running that version.
I'm using 1.1 and can read a variety of Word files - my students upload their essays, so I've had plenty of practice. I've had a few completely doolally files, but I suspect that was file-corruption at their end. There are a few glitches, e.g. objects or macros may not come out as intended, and I've had occasional problems with table margins, but 98% of Word docs come out fine in OO now.
The other reason for upgrading to 1.1 is the one-click PDF export - very convenient! 1.1 only has one annoying bug/feature, which is that if you have a document open and open another document, the new document window is _behind_ the old one - weird!
Sir Robin
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