[ale] New M$oft Word file format

[Jim Kinney]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Greg Freemyer<greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Been around for a couple years.
>
> OpenOffice works with them.  (I have not tested that statement very much.)

It does work OK with docx crap. But only if version 3.1 or higher. 3.5
seems to be fine with it (better than older m$word in some cases).
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM, drifter<drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
>> Has anyone else hit .docx files.  I just got one as an attachment
>> to an email.  Had to extract the archive first and then I still can't read
>> the damn thing as it is pulled into its component parts:
>> document.xml
>> fontTable.xml
>> settings.xml
>> styles.xml
>> webSettings.xml
>>
>>
>> The document file is the raw text, but nearly unreadable as all the
>> formatting  cues have been replaced with @,*,$; the CR/LFs have been
>> removed altogether.
>>
>> The file in question was created by the current Mac version of Word (until
>> next week, that is).
>>
>> Apparently the docx format is the default.
>>
>> I am not amused.
>>
>> Sean
>>
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