On Monday 26 January 2009 23:38:46 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Peter Ruskin > > <peter.rus...@dsl.pipex.com> wrote: > > On Monday 26 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Other than Office 2007 is there any software out there that can > >> *write* .docx? > >> > >> Work requires me to use this format sometimes (it's not > >> negotiable) and I can get around it 95% of the time, but the 5% > >> causes me insane amounts of grief. Even though Office2007 runs > >> perfectly well in CrossOver, I have to put up with that stupid > >> bouncing ribbon, menus that are not there and <shock> <horror> > >> <disgust> a productivity app that insists on launching all it's > >> windows undecorated (this last is the worst of the worst...). > >> > >> Ooo-3 can read these docs but not write them. > > > > As far as I can see, Ooo-3 _can_ write MSOffice files. Just open > > any OpenOffice document and try "Save As". > > Does not support writing Office 2007 OOXML format on OOo 3.0 here. > Only old Office 97-2003 (binary .doc) format. > > I think Go-OO has an odf-converter program that can convert OOo > documents to OOXML but I don't think there is a gentoo package and > last time I read about it, it was very raw (you'll lose > data/formatting when converting).
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 the ins and outs of MS's latest format decisions -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
