On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:11:52 -0500, Jules wrote:

I think of the folk I know here, as an OO user I'm the only one who can
open docx format - people often email files in that format to me for
conversion, because their copies of Word won't even open it.

Point them at the free plugin from MS for older vesrions of Word that
enables them to open .docx format files. It's free and works, within
the limitations of backwards compatibilty from Word 2007 of course...

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Cheers
Dave.