Re: [discuss] Can't open *.docx

2008-01-25 Thread Henning Brinkmann
Lars Noodén wrote: On 1/23/08, dog2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not able to open the file format .docx of Microsoft Office Word 2007. I ask do support this format in OpenOffice. Exceedingly bad idea. Here's just part of the reasons: http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2031 Using .docx

Re: [discuss] Can't open *.docx

2008-01-25 Thread Lars Noodén
Henning Brinkmann wrote: Nevertheless, filters for .docx are in the works already: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/tags/writerfilter That's fine as long as its promoted as being for recovering from mistakes, but at this stage users are putting their own neck in a rope if they start using MOOX.

[discuss] Re: Can't open *.docx

2008-01-25 Thread John Thompson
On 2008-01-25, Henning Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars Noodén wrote: Using .docx before the specification is finished *will* eventually lead to data loss. Please consider using instead OpenDocument (ISO/IEC 26300) which is what industry is backing. Nevertheless, filters for .docx

[discuss] Re: Kite Diagrams

2008-01-25 Thread NoOp
On 01/23/2008 01:33 AM, Ingrid Halama wrote: Hi Leon, You are welcome to submit a feature request: http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/pre_submission.html Then maybe this issue get some votes if other users are also interested in this feature. Kind regards, Ingrid Or perhaps

Re: [discuss] Re: Can't open *.docx

2008-01-25 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
It's all very easy. Just never get near docx. If everyone follows this, docx will (hopefully) eventually die automatically. J.R.

[discuss] Re: Can't open *.docx

2008-01-25 Thread NoOp
On 01/25/2008 02:14 AM, Henning Brinkmann wrote: Nevertheless, filters for .docx are in the works already: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/tags/writerfilter Regards, Henning The links for the filter result in: Not Found The requested URL