Microsoft Office 2007 introduced a new format standard for their Word files, the .docx file extension. With the introduction of this file previous versions of MS Office can download an add on so they can convert the file for viewing…. but how do you open these files in Ubuntu Linux?
To open Microsoft Office .docx files in OpenOffice, you have to install this convertor.
Download the convertor
i386:
ftp://ftp-mirror.internap.com/pub/www.getdeb.net/od/odf-converter_1.0.0-2~getdeb1_i386.deb
Amd64:
http://cesium.di.uminho.pt/pub/getdeb/od/odf-converter_1.0.0-2~getdeb1_amd64.deb
Install the package
sudo dpkg -i odf-converter_1.0.0-2~getdeb1_i386.deb #for i386 users sudo dpkg -i odf-converter_1.0.0-2~getdeb1_amd64.deb #for amd64 users
Alternatively, you can simply double-click the .deb to install it. You can now open and edit .docx files using OpenOffice.org.
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March 11th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Cool! another good reason to have .doc in xml