Open docx files in OpenOffice.org
April 2, 2008 by Clair Ching
Filed under Geeky Fun, applications
Have you been finding it a hassle to open docx files from your co-workers and/or clients? Ubuntu Geek helps us with this: Use the ODF Converter!
There’s a .deb package which you could download and install on your Debian-powered machines. Also, there’s an RPM file for SUSE.
Though the Novell RPM file is said to only work with the latest Novell version of OpenOffice.org, you might as well give it a try. The blog post on Ubuntu Tip also gave a way for Slackware users to convert from rpm to a Slackware tgz file:
Use alien to convert it …read more
