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. Anyway, you can find quite a bit of helpful information on http://www.koffice.org including a secion on filters and what is happening with them. C.

On Tuesday 12 June 2001 20:51, Jack Malone wrote:

I was on that site an read the info an guess that the filter is not working just yet since I was not able to get it to import a word doc. thanks for the info though.

jack

[snip] I have been poking around to try and get the MSWord import filter to work on the Solaris version of KDE and SuSE7.1 (with a KDE 2.1.1 update). Neither one seems to do anything much except generate errors. Has anyone had any success with import in KWord? The KOffice site filter status pages say that the Word import filter should be working... C.

what is the url to that site where the kword beta is at.

Kword 1.1 beta 2, which is now posted at the SuSE LinucKS site, does indeed read M$ docs. I read the very funny white paper "Linux in Retail & Hospitality What Every Retailer Should Know" published by the Microsoft people. It's just hilarious. So kword now reads M$ docs.

-- Cheers,

Jonathan

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On Tuesday 12 June 2001 13:29, you wrote:

On Tuesday 12 June 2001 19:59, Jack Malone wrote:

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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