On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Nick Cunningham <n...@monkeydust.net> wrote: > > > 2009/1/26 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> >> >> 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). >> >> Paul >> > > I believe if you build OO from source using portage you get GO-OO, however > if you use OO-bin you just get the plain OO package. > > - Nick >
I meant that Go-OO (the organization) has such a program, not that it is included in the Go-OO build of OpenOffice. I think it is based on: http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/ which is a Windows .NET program for converting between ODF and OOXML formats. I also found a Novell build: http://download.novell.com/Download?buildid=GuM6LMM9SR4 Again, I've never tried any of this. I found it easier to install Windows in Vmware and be done with it. :) Paul
