Your boss just sent you a crucial document with a .docx extension (Microsoft Open XML Format ) rather than the traditional .doc extension. It seems your boss had just upgraded to MS Office 2007. You need to open and print the file , but you [...]
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Ways to convert OpenXML files
Posted in May 2007 on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
MS Office vs. Open Office.org – a writer’s point of view
Posted in May 2007 on October 5, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A few years ago , I was developing elementary-level textbooks which included tutorials on MS Office applications – MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, and MS Access . I run these applications on a Windows emulator called Virtual PC on my Macintosh computer, for the [...]
Give Me Free Software Or Give Me Death
Posted in May 2007 on October 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Would you rather have some software capitalist decide what you can do with your computer, how you do it, and when you do it? Is the idea of software emancipation so terrifying that you would rather suffer the ordeal of having your hands tied behind your back, and your eyes blindfolded, not knowing what [...]
Run for your files!
Posted in May 2007 on October 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
RUN FOR YOUR FILES! : Migrating from MS Office to Open Office.org
Charmagne Munoz Feria
Run for your files! It’s time to move on. Microsoft’s proprietary file format had been losing out to the OpenDocument format. It seems a bright “vista” is not in Microsoft’s long term future. Their [...]
