[softwarelist] Re: Win OvPro Import and OvPro on RISC-OS

In article <gemini.kgck9l00elntj03v8.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
   Ray Dawson <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robin Phillips <robin-phillips@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Also, now that Microsoft lap-tops are producing files in a format 
> > which has the extension .DOCX it would be very good if one could deal 
> > with such files, instead of having to go back to whoever sent them and 
> > ask them to save them in an older version of Word.

> I think you will find that they are a PK compressed XML file so perhaps
> easier to write a converter for than earlier Word versions.

     They are indeed - OpenOffice handles them fine. Beware, however, that
they are a sort of MS-munged Open Document Format - which therefore isn't
exactly open - the xmlns is a microsoft one. There are some minor tweaks
which OpenOffice does in the course of loading.

               Keith

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