In article <e49f44eb4f.st
...@helvellyn.stevefryatt.org.uk>,
Steve Fryatt <n
...@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
> On 8 Oct, Andrew Hill wrote in message
> <BpSdnavf1PjUq3DVnZ2dnUVZ8qPin
...@posted.plusnet>:
> > Michael Bell wrote:
> > > Increasingly correspondents are sending me Word files
> > > of .docx filetype, which I cannot open in Techwrite
> > > as I could with older documents of .doc filetype.
> > > Is there a work-round?
> > Unfortunately yes: tell them not to!
> > Office 2007 has a totally different file format to all
> > the earlier versions of Word, and nothing except
> > Office 2007 (to my knowledge) reads them.
> There are import filters available for Word 2003: a quick
> search of Microsoft's website should turn them up fairly
> easily. ISTR that there's also a free viewer.
There are a number of converters out there.
Using Google, I found and downloaded a Windows file called
odf-converter-integrator-0.1.5-installer.exe.
Runing this installs the converter.
If you then double click on a .docx file, the converter
saves the equivalent file in .odt format (Open Document -
text), which Open Office then loads normally.
If you need it in Word format, Open Office will save as .doc
Although Easiwriter will read many Word files, I still find
I need Open Office (slow, clunky, but useful) to read MSWord
docs with very large graphics or ones with complex text
boxes.
Like EW, Open Office will also export as PDF too.
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