OpenOffice.OpenXML Translator for docx xslx and pptx files

  • 3559115
  • 21-Feb-2008
  • 16-Mar-2012

Environment

Windows
SUSE LInux Enterprise Desktop 10
openSUSE
Documents created with Microsoft Office 2007
Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org

Situation

Documents created in Microsoft Office 2007 which are in the XML format as a docx, xslx, or pptx file need to be opened in the Novell Edition of OpenOffice.org.

Resolution

You can find the free translator in the list of available OpenOffice.org downloads at the following link:

https://download.novell.com/index.jsp?product_id=&search=Search&families=3402&version=&date_range=&keywords=&sort_by=&x=33&y=12

Alternatively you can go to https://download.novell.com and select the OpenOffice.org product and click search.

Here is the description of the product:

The OpenXML Translator provides support for opening and saving Microsoft* OpenXML-formatted word processing documents (.docx), spreadsheet documents (.xslx) and slideshow documents (.pptx) in OpenOffice.org.

The odfconverter-1.1-7.oxt file works only with Windows, and the odf-converter-1.1-7.i586.rpm file works only on SUSE® Linux Enterprise, SUSE Linux, and openSUSE. On both platforms, the OpenXML Translator works only with the latest Novell® edition of OpenOffice.org.