[SOLVED] Micro$oft Word and OpenOffice

SAngeli · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Italy

Hi,

I run OpenOffice 1.1.4 and strougle a lot when I receive Micor$oft Word documents that opened in OOo are not properly formatted. This becomes an issue when the Word document owner intentionally formatted the page.

How to be able at least to print a MS Word document as is?
Looking around I noticed in portage of this application: wvWare
Is this ok and used by OpenOffice?
I was also thinking to install (through wine) Micro$oft Word Viewer 2003
Will it work (have not tried it jet). Is it a good idea?

Thank you for your advice.
Spiro

Lance · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 02 Apr 2004 Posts: 125

You might be interested to read this thread
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-201127-highlight-winetools.html
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augury · l33t Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 722 Location: philadelphia

I never have any problems w/ kword or abiword. Its actually one of the best formats. You may run into problems if the doc is over formated and contains unnecessary information or information that should not be in the final document. OO 1.9 worked well for me but I don't typically use it.

kmare · Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:11 pm Post subject:

vmware is a x86 emulator. It has nothing to do with openoffice. Try using openoffice2 (hard masked for now till it is released).. if you still have problems then give codeweaver a try (I don't think that wine will work with msoffice2003) by installing on top of it your copy of msoffice2003.
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SAngeli · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Italy

I am actually installing through wine Micro$oft Word Viewer 2003.
At moment it won't install. So I filed for a bug report.
If I am able to open, view, print the original word format it is quite sufficient for now.
I am also installing OOo2.....

Thanks,
Spiro

revertex · l33t Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 806

wordviewer97 work's fine under wine, crossoveroffice can run M$Office quite well but costs $money$

you can try winetools http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/ or these tips

http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=wordviewer2003

http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=office2000

http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=office97

lghman · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Florida

bertaboy · l33t Joined: 05 Nov 2004 Posts: 604

If you're a pupil or student, then you can legally download and install Star Office 8 from Sun's website. Granted, I had to do some extra work to get it to install, I havn't had any problems with SO7 or SO8 for the Word documents that I've had to open or save. Plus, SO8 supports Open Text Documents.

In order to get SO8 to install, I had to run the install script, but since it craps out (doesn't run the RPM's properly,) I had to go to the temp directory where it placed all of the RPM's, then rpm2tgz, then extract all of the RPM's. I ended up putting them in /opt/StarOffice8. The only problem I have is that it doesn't see any of the JRE's I have installed, nor does it see the one from the RPM, but as far as I can tell, it's fully functional.

SAngeli · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Italy

Hi,

WineTools is for x86, right? What for those who have amd64? Can I still install WineTools or not?

Thank you,
Spiro

SAngeli · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2004 Posts: 904 Location: Italy

I am running OOo 2.0.0_rc1 and I believe that the issue with Micro$oft Word documents formatting is almost or totaly solved. I will continue trying it and report back if I find something interesting to say.

So far so good.

Spiro

lsm · n00b Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 30

My 1.1.4 built with pentium-m optimizations is very fast. I'm not contented to use an out-of-the-box binary pre-build.

Anyone successfully building OO 1.9+ from source? Why isn't there an ebuild?