Re: Docx and OpenOffice in Lenny
2008/10/21 Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>:
>> My solution, when possible, is to write to the body from where the
>> .docx comes from and request that they resend in PDF. Even users of
>> MSO <2007 will be unable to open .docx files.
>>
> Though doesn't the latest version of Office also capable of generating
> the considerably more universal .odt or .doc formats as well? Why not
> just have the guy you're collaborating with send you something that
> isn't a result of Microsoft missing the point of what XML is about?
>
Why not open document: was not possible in MSO 2007 < SP1, and I am
still not sure how it will look in OOo.
Why not .doc: I have been rejecting those for years on the same basis
that I now reject .docx!
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