How to open Microsoft OpenXML *.docx file in OpenOffice Ubuntu

 

Now you can open and read documents written in the notorious Microsoft Office OpenXML (*.docx) with OpenOffice.org OpenXML Translator.

What you need to do is download the OpenXML translator from GetDeb.net and install it in your Ubuntu Linux operating system.

Your OpenOffice.org application should be able to read documents files in *.docx format after this. Note that you need to restart your OpenOffice.org Writer if you can't see the Microsoft Office 2007 OpenXML option under the Load/Save dialog.

Guide for other Linux distribution can be found here - How to open Microsoft OpenXML docx documents in OpenOffice

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3 smashing comments for this post.

  1. piju Said:

    cekpit,
    install la menatang browser detector plugin tu

  2. webgk.com Said:

    Good one. I was using Wine for running a few .exe applications on Linux. We’ll see more of such softwares like OpenXML translator as it is the need of the time.

  3. Mario Said:

    Works great! i was trying to use the latest version of this package by novell but didn’t work. Thanks!

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