Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 15:16, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-26, Ala

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 15:16, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-01-26, Alan McKinnon wrote: > These are shared documents. I can't just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2009-01-26, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> > These are shared documents. I can't just change what they are >>> > based on my own preferences. >

[gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 17:46:46 Grant Edwards wrote: >> I realize I'm arguing a moot point, but using something like >> .docx for shared documents that need to be maintained by >> multiple people for a long time (more than a month or two) is a >> dead awfu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 17:46:46 Grant Edwards wrote: > I realize I'm arguing a moot point, but using something like > .docx for shared documents that need to be maintained by > multiple people for a long time (more than a month or two) is a > dead awful choice. > > A plain ascii text file is pr

[gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-27, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-01-26, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > These are shared documents. I can't just change what they are >> > based on my own preferences. >> > >> > I need an app that WRITES .docx. If Office 2007 is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 06:29:55 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-01-26, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > These are shared documents. I can't just change what they are > > based on my own preferences. > > > > I need an app that WRITES .docx. If Office 2007 is the only > > one that does it, so be it. But

[gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-01-26, Alan McKinnon wrote: > These are shared documents. I can't just change what they are > based on my own preferences. > > I need an app that WRITES .docx. If Office 2007 is the only > one that does it, so be it. But a workaround or another way to > skin this cat is not what I need he

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 27 January 2009 00:16:04 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I have a stock standard openoffice-3.0.0 here (not bin) and it claims to > > write Office 2003 XML. I believe from colleagues that this is not the > > same as 2007 .docx and I believe them as my Office 2003 in C

[gentoo-user] Re: Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: I have a stock standard openoffice-3.0.0 here (not bin) and it claims to write Office 2003 XML. I believe from colleagues that this is not the same as 2007 .docx and I believe them as my Office 2003 in Crossover cannot open .docx I could be wrong though - I don't know all