From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRZAP-00044c-4A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:38:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8C5FE010A; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.245]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABC39E010A for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so6570379rvf.46 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:38:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=exaziCMYK+PWyATLgodENvNmSCMYmJXOfftcFqJ4oh8=; b=ELGGyU7wDwGr+UMoq3FCDQcZRwdQ/IgxcrE2HSl5gQJPYX9LnVf0q/w3LT8sG1GTpp /XKy5kO9eWF4tRP7+HWyCLpRcwDCpna4lOSf+aDbA+aWf8RHRkm9GEIKWYdgeT6JbGms b9AQz3WdmD0PzomA+Fc7vjWQCuFVJwwoGKCys= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=SHkmYUrNjk4A/FM+NVMbby5yjrkViQaqE/Zmsh+js6qhpHot2CJ8lI/IQut+jmc6fM hz0R1/IwGIGMbC1JGfaF1aboeQQ4peKG9S3H2bhU6pjCOf+fa2mdHS1GtmVC8NvujlrG EancFQVzn3CAdhoQJ748gvCfOheFC6E5N1pAQ= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.141.26.19 with SMTP id d19mr7029833rvj.184.1233005926241; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:38:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <200901262116.29303.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> References: <200901262211.16415.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200901262116.29303.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:38:46 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: b26c346ff0927032 Message-ID: <58965d8a0901261338p131e1d61rc644e4feed1455e0@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007 From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 111785b6-57b6-48c6-900d-e5b398151cdc X-Archives-Hash: bb4c043c5f8f24272e6a35781e984e39 On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Peter Ruskin 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 >> 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