[Discussion] DOCX [Was: can you recommend a laptop?]

[Jon]

On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:19:15 -0400 (EDT) Carl Gehr wrote:
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>A subsequent message from the person who sent the DOCX file said that
>it was created on a 'new MAC!'
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Why not ask the person who sent the .docx to save it in w97 mode so that you can use OO to read it?  
Assuming it was created in MS Word, it's a simple matter to choose save-as instead of save and then 
toggle the file type to the older, legacy style of .doc

Jon