How to Open Those Pesky .docx Files in OpenOffice.org

Posted on April 1st, 2008 by nathan

Ubuntu Geek has posted a writeup on getting Microsoft Office 2007 files to work with OpenOffice.org. This is comes at a great time for me, because I’m getting more and more files emailed to me in this format…and OpenOffice.org can’t open .docx on its own. Thankfully, there’s now a converter to get these files up and running.

Ubuntu users: You can download the OpenOffice.org OpenXML Translator straight from GetDeb.net.

It also looks like packages for SUSE are available at Softpedia.

Finally, grab the source at the SourceForge project page.

Full Story: Ubuntu Tip: How to Open/View .docx files in OpenOffice

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Filed under: Crossplatform Computing, OpenOffice.Org

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2 Responses to “How to Open Those Pesky .docx Files in OpenOffice.org”

  1. matt, on April 2nd, 2008 at 3:46 pm Said:

    Wicked good post.

  2. Open docx files in OpenOffice.org, on April 3rd, 2008 at 6:19 am Said:

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