Comments on: How to open Microsoft OpenXML docx documents in OpenOffice

By: jastazv

jastazv — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:31:53 +0000

Thank you. It works great!!!

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:41:15 +0000

Using the OpenOffice.org plugin caused it to crash, repeatedly, until I deleted the .xcu files. However, the OdfConverter program works fine stand-alone and I was able to read the .docx files using it and then opening the resultant .odf in OpenOffice.org manually.

By: Mattack

Mattack — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:53:27 +0000

Thanks. This worked like a charm. My daughter’s homework is saved!

By: Tobias Davis

Tobias Davis — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:00:39 +0000

Wow, thanks so much for posting that! It works great for the things I use it on (make sure to include the extra / as mentioned above) which are not very complex. My machine has 256mb of RAM (!), and it does it pretty quick.

Thanks a billion!

By: Ben in Seattle

Ben in Seattle — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:27:31 +0000

Worked great! Thanks for posting it here. I tried through Novell’s site first and it was a pain to find and then ended up being in rpm format. (The machines I’m administering run Debian Etch.)

By: Joe Timm

Joe Timm — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:12:47 +0000

I had the same problem as David. Any feedback on this problem?

David Legg Said:
February 1st, 2008 at 6:13 am

Well that was a bit of a flop. I tried importing a file as type docx and got the message that the file was corrupt, and would OO like me to repair it. I said yes but the resulting file was empty. Bit of a pity. I will go and try the command line programme next when there is some time â€¦

Thanks anyway.

Incidentally, I entirely agree with Karensâ€™ suggestion, above

By: David Legg

David Legg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:10:34 +0000

Here’s a much better script to deal with the problem once and for all.

find /home -iname ‘*.docx’ -print | awk ‘{print “rm ” $1}’ | sh

By: dwlegg

dwlegg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:02:40 +0000

Presumably, with OOo V3.0 about to hit the streets, everyone should be testing, feeding-back and improving OOo?

But, IÂ´m still with Karen …

By: zlatan24

zlatan24 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:47:57 +0000

Where is fine tool-repair docx file, is a program to fix doc files, can repair docx file of Microsoft Office 2007, repair word files through network, can solve next errors: Word unable to read file, .doc file is not in the recognizable format, Word 2007 unable to read file docx, Word cannot access read-only document, cannot read word file because corrupted, Microsoft word this file is not in a recognizable format.

By: andrew

andrew — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:17:41 +0000

Here is a simple script I wrote to do everything in one step. Call the script ooxmlfilterinstall.sh and run it like so

sudo ooxmlfilterinstall.sh

or to remove the converter:

sudo ooxmlfilterinstall.sh uninstall

—-
#!/bin/sh
# installer for OpenOffice OOXML filter/converter.
PKGURL=”http://blog.mypapit.net/imej/odf_filter.tar.bz2″
PKGFILE=”odf_filter.tar.bz2″
FILE1=”./files/MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu”
FILE1DEST=”/usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu”
FILE2=”./files/MOOXTypeDetection.xcu”
FILE2DEST=”/usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/MOOXTypeDetection.xcu”
FILE3=”./files/OdfConverter”
FILE3DEST=”/usr/lib/openoffice/program/OdfConverter”
if test “$1″ = ‘uninstall’;then
echo “$0: Uninstalling OpenOffice OOXML Converter.”
rm -f $FILE1DEST $FILE2DEST $FILE3DEST
else
echo “$0: Installing OpenOffice OOXML Converter.”
echo “$0: downloading odf_filter.tar.bz2″
wget $PKGURL > /dev/null 2>&1
echo “$0: extracting odf_filter.tar.bz2″
tar -xjf $PKGFILE
echo “$0: Installing files”
# don’t clobber
cp -u $FILE1 $FILE1DEST
cp -u $FILE2 $FILE2DEST
cp -u $FILE3 $FILE3DEST
fi
echo “$0: Done.”
—-

By: David Legg

David Legg — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:13:52 +0000

Thanks anyway.

Incidentally, I entirely agree with Karens’ suggestion, above.

By: David Legg

David Legg — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:01:00 +0000

Great blog article, but do please do Charles Mitchell’s correction (above).

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:48:57 +0000

I simply send .docx files back to the sender, and ask them to send it in a standard format, even the older Microsoft Word formats. And I include a link to OpenOffice.org, so they can get a free word processor that will allow them to do so. Why should the rest of the world suffer just because MS wants to make a few more bucks and not allow their old format to be used?

By: mypapit

mypapit — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:22:25 +0000

zyz, i’ve included the source from novel website. Thanks

By: zyz

zyz — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:49:33 +0000

Thank for this info. It works.

You should also add an original source of OdfConverter binary:

http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~

People can download this binary from there (and verify a checksum) if they are concerned about security.

By: LCG

LCG — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:19:36 +0000

Thanks so much. An instructor just uploaded a half-page of instructions in this god-forsaken format and I am soooo happy I can open it without purchasing MS Word 2007. If only MS could be forced to use ODF like everyone else.

By: Raseel

Raseel — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:10:25 +0000

Hey thanks a lot. Got viewing these stupid docx files in no time.

By: mypapit

mypapit — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:37:45 +0000

thanks for informing me Charles!

By: Charles Mitchell

Charles Mitchell — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:03:17 +0000

The second line, path is missing the leading /.

sudo cp MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/

should be

sudo cp MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/

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How to open Microsoft OpenXML docx documents in OpenOffice