On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 17:58, Martin McCormick <mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote: > Our campus uses the latest Microsoft Office suite which produces > XL spreadsheets and Word documents with a different format. All > the file names end in x such as important-document.xlx or > someotherdoc.docx. catdoc which reads older Word documents spews > out a bunch of binary junk and XML code so it is confused. > > Does anything read these yet besides Microsoft > applications? > > As a computer user who happens to be blind, catdoc and > xlhtml were extremely useful in reading Email attachments but > more and more documents are these new X forms of the more > familiar .doc and .xl docs.
The package unoconv has the ooxml2doc and ooxml2odt utilities. Once in doc or odt, you can convert to plain text with the usual apps. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
