[YLUG] Handling OOXML

[Christopher McGarry]

You could ask the creators of the document to save it in word 97-2003 
format for you instead of OOXML.
I have just tried this now and it opened in open office fine.

Paul Wardman wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:mike.cohler at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 31/10/2007, Stephen Patterson <steve at patter.mine.nu
>     <mailto: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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