Hi, On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 26/03/2008, G.H. Slotnick wrote: > > > > Documents developed with Microsoft Office 2007 Word trial software and > > with the docx appended do not convert to OpenOffice and are not > > compatible. How does one convert these documents? > > One downloads the free ODF plugin from Sun Microsystems and installs it in > MS Office 2007: <http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/index.jsp>. > > With the plugin installed in MS Office, open the 2007 document and save it > as ODF. Then open the ODF in OpenOffice. > > If the free trial of Office 2007 has expired you might be able to use an > older version of MS Office with Microsoft's "compability pack" installed: > <http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HA100444731033.aspx>. > This will let you open the 2007 document in e.g. Office 2003 and then save > it in the older pre-2007 format which OpenOffice will be able to read. > > I believe that version 3 of OpenOffice, due in September, will be able to > read MS office 2007 documents. [...] > > None of these methods guarantees 100% compability of appearance, layout, > etc. etc. I think Macros will also be an issue.
Please see also -> Documentation | FAQ | General 'How do I open Microsoft Office 2007 files?' <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/General/OpeningMSO2007Files> Manfred -- Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html> <http://support.openoffice.org/index.html> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
