[YLUG] Handling OOXML

[Arthur Clune]

On 31 Oct 2007, at 16:18, Stephen Patterson wrote:

> Some of the pointy-haired ones at work have "upgraded" to the latest &
> 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.

ISTR that I had heard that when you unpack the OOXML
archive there's a old-style office copy in there.

I have no idea if this is urban myth or not.

Arthur

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