[YLUG] Handling OOXML

[Paul Wardman]

This came up in a previous Linux Format, and the solution at that time was
to take it to Michael Meeks, who is working precisely on that problem (or
was at the time, anyway). That is clearly not possible for us all.

An issue in that precise case was, as well, that it was a trial version of
Office on Vista, and had the cut and paste functions disabled! One possible
solution (VERY hacky and clunky) I thought of was to take a screen-shot and
then use text-recognition on the resulting image. Clearly this is not a
great solution. The other thing that might be possible (but again, only on a
single document basis) would be to open up the OOXML file in a text editor
and try to salvage whatever's in plain text.

For now, it seems not usable.

On 31/10/2007, Mike Cohler <mike.cohler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 31/10/2007, Stephen Patterson <steve at patter.mine.nu> wrote:
> > greatest MS office, complete with documents in unusable OOXML. Is there
> > anything in Linux that can read these (especially .xlsx spreadsheets)?
> > I've tried the latest 2.3 offical build of OpenOffice but even that
> > fails to recognise them.
>
> Not looking good - see
> http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/office_open_xml_ooxml_filters
>
> --
>
> mike cohler
>
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