Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Nick Cunningham wrote:
>
>
> 2009/1/26 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com
> <mailto:paul.hartman%2Bgentoo@gmail.com>>
>
>     On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Peter Ruskin
>     <peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com <mailto:peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com>>
>     wrote:
>     > On Monday 26 January 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>     >> Hi all,
>     >>
>     >> Other than Office 2007 is there any software out there that can
>     >> *write* .docx?
>     >>
>     >> Work requires me to use this format sometimes (it's not
>     >> negotiable) and I can get around it 95% of the time, but the 5%
>     >> causes me insane amounts of grief. Even though Office2007 runs
>     >> perfectly well in CrossOver, I have to put up with that stupid
>     >> bouncing ribbon, menus that are not there and <shock> <horror>
>     >> <disgust> a productivity app that insists on launching all it's
>     >> windows undecorated (this last is the worst of the worst...).
>     >>
>     >> Ooo-3 can read these docs but not write them.
>     >
>     > As far as I can see, Ooo-3 _can_ write MSOffice files.  Just open
>     > any OpenOffice document and try "Save As".
>
>     Does not support writing Office 2007 OOXML format on OOo 3.0 here.
>     Only old Office 97-2003 (binary .doc) format.
>
>     I think Go-OO has an odf-converter program that can convert OOo
>     documents to OOXML but I don't think there is a gentoo package and
>     last time I read about it, it was very raw (you'll lose
>     data/formatting when converting).
>
>     Paul
>
>
> I believe if you build OO from source using portage you get GO-OO,
> however if you use OO-bin you just get the plain OO package.
>
> - Nick

Compiled from source here and I don't see that.  Where exactly is it? 
Maybe I am missing something.

I did check both save as and export with no mention of docx. 

Dale

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