OpenOffice 3 supports .docx and .xlsx!
Halleluia!! OpenOffice 3, which I just upgraded to, can read Word 2007 .docx files!! I’ve been waiting for this for a year, ever since UAT adopted Office 2007 (to my great dismay). Now I don’t need to worry about it any more. I was pondering the possibility of buying Office 2007 so I wouldn’t have to keep asking people to export files to .doc and .xls so I can read them. OO3 can also open Excel 2007 .xlsx files. There’s no way to save to these formats, but at least it’s possible to open them so that when someone sends you one of these annoying files, you can convert it to a proper industry-standard format such as .doc and .xls. I’m extremely impressed with the new features and performance of OO3, and have yet to really explore it completely. It definitely seems to run faster.
dafolk
January 11th, 2009 at 3:07 pm #
Microsoft offers a free Word reader for 2007 docx files. And a plugin for older Word versions to read in ‘07 files.
Arrowofdarkness16
January 18th, 2009 at 2:41 pm #
Not only that, but it finally starts up faster, thank god!