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Re: [LUG] DCGLUG SFD2008

 

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Subject: Re: [LUG] DCGLUG SFD2008
Date: 10/09/08 12:15

> Adam Latham wrote:
> &gt; My school uses M$Office '07, with its' fantastically useless xml
> &gt; type .docx extensions.  Naturally, being based in one of the poorest
> &gt; areas of the country, almost none of the parents of the pupils
attending
> &gt; local schools will have the spare £100 or so to buy Office 2007
(pupils
> &gt; don't get discounts 'cus they don't buy enterprise
> &gt; products!(allegedly!)).
> &gt;
> &gt;   
> Adam, could I just ask, are you in the Torbay area?
> 
> I think as a group we should get something in the Herald Express in 
> Torbay to promote Open Source.  For instance isn't OpenOffice.org 3 
> going to support OOXML files?

I got sent an xlsx file the other day and it opened fine in OO.org 2.4.1  so
I am guessing version 3 of oo will have support.
> 
Paul

paul



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