Great, thanks fellas. Most helpful. Much appreciated. ~Malcolm Brown ----- Original Message ----- From: Guy Voets To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Malcolm Brown Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:40 PM Subject: Re: [users] Re: [moderated]
2008/7/21 Russell Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Malcolm Brown wrote: Hi Guys I have just received an email attachment suffixed .docx which Writer would not recognise. The sender tells me that Just to put you in the picture re Word docx I recently installed the latest version of Microsoft Office 2007. The "docx" file is a compressed file and is the automatic file type that office uses unless you ask for it to be saved in what they call "win97-2003" which your pc and most other people's or peoples' recognise. Are you likely to incorporate dealing with .docx in an upgrade? Cheers ~Malcolm Brown Hi Malcolm It will be available in version 3.0 due out in September. If you want to experiment with it, you can try the developer versions available from the OOo download page. See the "Get Release candidates and Snapshot builds" link. Russell Hello, The beta-2 test release is announced at the entry page of http://www.openoffice.org (top right). You can try it, it's should read these ugly docx -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches