Posted by Ronan on Apr 8, 2007 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
I was recently working at home and I found a copy of office 2007 so I installed it on my laptop. The new office is quite nice, everything seems really nicely integrated – the ‘ribbon’ is a nice idea.. but that’s the problem.. everything is nice. I don’t want nice.. I want the power of LaTeX! any road, I saved my document and uploaded it to my clever gspace account so I could finish it off on my Linux box inside at work. When I tried to open the new format (which I noticed to have a .docx extension, I presume the x means xml) staroffice crapped out .. what is the advantage of the new format (Sparky)? I’m not sure.. but I don’t think office supports ODF (Sparky?) if it did, life might be easier. Instead you have to ‘Save as’ and enter ‘compatibility mode’ – real user friendly there MS!
So now the problem of opening doc files in Linux is doubled. Once it was a problem of star office ‘kinda’ of getting it right and ‘sorta’ editing word docs. Now we have convert docx to doc and then star/open office might be able to open and maybe edit it.. oohh woe is me.