From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from eastrmmtao106.cox.net (eastrmmtao106.cox.net [68.230.240.48]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68A8610AB8 for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 11:34:46 -0400 (EDT) Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao106.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20090526153447.XFMF23066.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 11:34:47 -0400 Received: from cmbrannon ([68.12.115.220]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id wFal1b00A4lNohg02FaljQ; Tue, 26 May 2009 11:34:45 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=5GHow_NRIoCu5w8yg_sA:9 a=AIycUCvrQGMxX-uegi5e1d3nbjsA:4 X-CM-Score: 0.00 From: Chris Brannon To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: accessing .docx documents In-reply-to: <20090526150536.GA28352@csy.ca> References: <20090526143814.GA19575@rx.localhost> <20090526150536.GA28352@csy.ca> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 10:37:46 -0500 Message-Id: <20090526153447.XFMF23066.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 15:34:46 -0000 Shane W wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:38:14AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > > Lately I have been sent some documents with the file suffix ".docx" and > > They are ms-word 2007 documents. Unfortunately, I don't > know of a Linux solution to open these. You can just use > Word 2007 itself or I believe there is a conversion plugin There is a tool called unoconv. It will handle any file format that OpenOffice can open or produce. I think .docx is in the list of supported formats. It should be possible to convert these to plain text or html. -- Chris