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Question of the Day: What's the most interesting small town you've visited in South Africa?
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chiskop
Executive Member
Yes, unless they're in .docx.
chiskop
Executive Member
(Thank the lord) I don't often have to work with those formats, but I believe there isn't a problem with moving them into OpenOffice, unless your spreadsheet has complicated macros. In general, if you've used the new .docx, .xlsx or .pptx, you're going to struggle. So much for an ISO standard 
slayerza
Senior Member
The ISO standards could not handle all of the bloat
Since most people still use older versions of MS office this should not be a problem, and as for the docX files I suppose a converter will be available soon enough.
Cheers
Slayer
Since most people still use older versions of MS office this should not be a problem, and as for the docX files I suppose a converter will be available soon enough.
Cheers
Slayer
Velenoso
Expert Member
Works 100% in Ubuntu. And I have a massive collection (160gigs+) imported from a mounted NTFS drive. So yeah!
Yeah you can. Those goddamn .docx files are annoying since I dual boot with Vista/Office2007, I now have to choose the Save As Office 97 - 2003 option when I save docs I've been working on in Vista. A pain, but not the end of days.
Smiley_lauf
Expert Member
"Those goddamn .docx files are annoying since I dual boot with Vista/Office2007, I now have to choose the Save As Office 97 - 2003 option when I save docs I've been working on in Vista. A pain, but not the end of days."
Well, like with anything FOSS, people at OOo have an extension to read these damn docx files. Here is the link on how to in Ubuntu Gutsy http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Gutsy#OpenOffice_add_ons
On this site there hundreds of HOWTO's, so enjoy!
Well, like with anything FOSS, people at OOo have an extension to read these damn docx files. Here is the link on how to in Ubuntu Gutsy http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Gutsy#OpenOffice_add_ons
On this site there hundreds of HOWTO's, so enjoy!
Velenoso
Expert Member
Smiley_lauf
Expert Member
I wasn't aware of that. Thank you.
Cool no problem; if you are looking for a bibliographic package to work with OOo in Ubuntu, then check Bibus out (search on google and setup install through the repo's)