On Tuesday 12 June 2001 13:29, you wrote:
On Tuesday 12 June 2001 19:59, Jack Malone wrote:
was wondering if anyone know if kword in the future will be able to open up msoffice docs. it looks very promising as a nice word processor. I see the file type of msoffice 97 when you go to open a file but it does not open/recognize the file format yet.
jack
thanks maybe there is a mail list for the kde office products that I can ask this in, anyone know the list name/address to subscribe to.
We were discussing this at work today... looking for solutions to the problem we will be facing with Office/Windows XP. If KOffice could read/export MSOffice formats like StarOffice can, there would be a serious business case to move over to KOffice.
Here is a synopsis of the features forthcoming in Kword: -------------------------------------------------------- Filters. Various import/export filters are available in most of the KOffice applications to support document exchange with users of other office suits. For more information on KOffice filter status, including import filters for MS WinWord 97 and MS Excel 97, please visit the KOffice filters status page. Changes since the last release include: New filter: Quattro Pro import filter for KSpreadImprovements to the MS WinWord and MS Excel import filters (less crashes, more features)I mprovements to the HTML and Abiword export filters ------------------------------------------------------- Most of these should be available in the Koffice 1.1 beta 3. It is scheduled for realease, in rpm form, on 25 June. The complete list of Kwoffice filters is here: http://www.koffice.org/filters/status.phtml along with their status. Also Abiword will import M$ docs as well as send documents out in RTF. I have on several occasions sent *.rtf documents, created with Abiword, to Microsoft boxes. In subsequent follow phone calls, I found that the recipients could read them and that the embedded *.png's wre rendered correctly. I also understand that Gnumeric will read Excel spreadsheets. Of related interest, Killustrator does a fine job of importing Xfig illustrations. -- Cheers, Jonathan