RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: DocX

@Brian,

Thanks for the helpful rundown on viewers.

For Windows and non-Windows platforms, the on-line SkyDrive viewers and editors can be used as 
well.  There is reduced functionality, but it is probably still better than what happens attempting 
to use DOCX in OpenOffice-lineage software.

Recently, they added not only storage but viewer/editor support for some ODF Formats, primarily ODF 
Text.

See <https://skydrive.live.com/>.

(There is now access to some of these on Smartphones too.)

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Barker [mailto:b.m.barker@btinternet.com] 
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 09:50
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: DocX

At 19:27 13/05/2012 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Note that those [the freeware Microsoft viewers for Word, Excel, and 
> Powerpoint document files] will not open .docx files: ...

Natively, this is true, but read on ...

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891090 "Please note that there was 
> not a Word Viewer created for Word Viewer 2007 or Word Viewer 2010. 
> To view Word 2007 and 2010 documents, please download the following 
> link and install the Office Compatibility Pack noted below"
>
> I like the typos on the MS site! The "following link" links to an 
> Office Compatibility Pack for older versions of MS Office, so those 
> with no MS Office installed cannot view Word 2007/2010 files.

I think you miss the point here: the instruction is both to download 
(the viewer) and install the Compatibility Pack.

The Compatibility Pack is indeed intended for systems with Microsoft 
Office XP (2002) or 2003 and it enables those versions of Office, as 
modified, to open, edit, and save documents in the new "x" 
formats.  But it is equally applicable to the freeware viewers (which 
are effectively cut-down versions of components of Office 2003) and 
enables the viewers, as similarly modified, to open, display, and 
print documents in the newer formats too.

Brian Barker


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