A Better Office .docx Converter | Linux Today

A Better Office .docx Converter

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 8, 2008

[ Thanks to Andrew
Ziem
for this link. ]

“Any translation is subject to imperfections. For
OpenOffice.org 3.0, it is the first public release of the Office
2007 converters. Overall, it is very good, but it stuggles mainly
in areas related to tracking changes, comments, tables, and
drawings. You can wait for OpenOffice 3 to mature, but there’s
another way for the impatient.

“Knowing OpenOffice.org 3.0.0’s weaknesses, I designed a .docx
document specially to torture OpenOffice.org and to point out its
weaknesses. Here is the first page in Microsoft Office Word 2007
where the document was designed:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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