Erm, help?

[rochvelleth]

I feel bad asking for yet more help here when I've been rather absent and not reading my f'list, but if anyone could help me with the following I'd be very grateful.

How do I open a file saved as .docx ? I have MS Word 2000, and I have Open Office, but can't seem to make either one open my file.

Many thanks in advance!

Comments

[despotliz]

I think you can install this compatibility pack and it will let you open them.

[rochvelleth]

Thank you! I'll check it out right away.

[megamole]

You need to download the format converters from Microsoft. Just google for "word format converter".

[rochvelleth]

Thank you! I'll do that. I wonder whether I'll find anything my dial-up can cope with :)

[enismirdal]

My usual suggestion would be to e-mail back the person who sent it to you and tell them to learn to save files in a proper format that normal people can read!

[rochvelleth]

Yes, this was stage one of my cunning plan :) Unfortunately, it relies on people replying...

[ewx]

In addition to the above, I think more recent version of OpenOffice can read .docx.

[rochvelleth]

Aha, thank you! My version is fairly recent, so I'll see if I can persuade it to comply. I don't think I'll be able to download anything further, because my dial-up is protesting :(

[emperor]

My Open Office (2.4) can read .docx files

[cjwatson]

The Go-oo branch of OpenOffice.org (as used by most GNU/Linux distributions, including Debian which I'm guessing emperor is using), has had OOXML support for yonks, back to 2.3 or so I think. Mainline OpenOffice.org has only had it since 3.0.

[sc_fossil]

You could try opening the file with google docs or use the html option in the email. Gmail gives me these options which is what I do when people send weird files. Generally, though, I ask for another file in a doc or txt format. I also use Open Office but I can't remember if it opened the last docx file I got.

[rochvelleth]

Thank you very much, I'll try that!