[elearning] Opening docx files with OpenOffice

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Here is a cross post from the eChalk list. Apologies for any duplicate
posts. You can Wikipedia the details later if you forget to bookmark the
link. We have added this converter to the open office image deployed to all
college computers. Easy to do, works a treat. :-)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org

Regards Roland

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From: Leon Brooks <leon-echalk at cyberknights.com.au>

> I have Open Office 2.3 and it won't open .docx files.

Quoth the reven (-ous mouse, swipe, middle-click):

    In response to Microsoft's recent movement
    towards using the Office Open XML format in
    Microsoft Office 2007, Novell has released
    an Office Open XML converter for OOo under
    a liberal BSD license (along with GNU GPL
    and LGPL licensed libraries), that will be
    submitted for inclusion into the OpenOffice
    project. This allows OOo to read and write
    Microsoft OpenXML-formatted word processing
    documents (.docx) in OpenOffice.org.
    Currently it works only with the latest
    Novell edition of OpenOffice.org.

(  Ref: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=GuM6LMM9SR4~
  Dated: 26-Feb-2008 )

   The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
   the unreasonable one persists in trying
   to adapt the world to himself.
   Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
   -- Bernard Shaw

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Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College
http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au

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