Way to view MS Office's new file format

[Florian Diesch]

NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 07/22/2008 10:35 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
>> Linda Hanigan wrote:
>>> Is there an open source way to view MS Office's new file format? We
>>> are starting to get more of these annoying files as email 
>>> attachments.
>> 
>> This might help.
>> 
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>> 
>> Peter HB
>> 
>
> Not likely:
> <quote>
> You sent the attachment in Microsoft Word format, a secret proprietary
> format, so I cannot read it. If you send me the plain text, HTML, or
> PDF, then I could read it.
> </quote>
>
> HTML is turned off on _all_ of my email clients.

You can safe a attached HTML file and open it in some other program,
like you do it with PDF. So HTML is a good replacement for Word files.


   Florian
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