[aklug] Re: View docx files

Did you say you tried openxml viewer

On Sep 4, 2010, at 7:26 PM, barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Quoting jonr@destar.net:
>
>> Quoting barsalou <barjunk@attglobal.net>:
>>
>>> I'm looking for alternate ways to view docx files on my Linux laptop.
>>> OpenOffice opens them just fine, but because the laptop I'm using is
>>> memory starved, it tends to take a little while.
>>>
>>> I've googled around a bit and have found some references to conversion
>>> sites and of course, links to OpenOffice.
>>>
>>> Has anyone ran across a way to just view docx files without the entire
>>> overhead of OpenOffice?
>> Have you looked at Abiword or Antiword?
>>
>> Jon
>
> antiword didn't open the docx style file, abiword did open it, but the
> numbering of paragraphs got lost. Didn't matter in this case, but
> just wanted folks to be aware.
>
> I'm going to try and find one of those firefox add ons, and see what
> that might offer.
>
> Mike B.
>
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Received on Sat Sep 4 20:38:11 2010