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I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and the icon has "zip" written on it. My emac is running 10.4.11, and I have office 2004, but I could not open the file, nor unstuff it. I tried google, but didn't find any help. Does anyone have any suggestions for opening this file? Thanks. > I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and the icon > has "zip" written on it. My emac is running 10.4.11, and I have office > 2004, but I could not open the file, nor unstuff it. I tried google, but > didn't find any help. Does anyone have any suggestions for opening this > file? .docx is the new MS Word format. Docx Converter <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31504> TextEdit under Leopard (10.5) will open docx files. Office 2008 will obviously open them, too. Or ask your relative to save the file in the older .doc format and send it again.  SignatureWoodworking links and more at http://www.woodenwabbits.com -------------- I kill all messages from Google Groups. See http://improve-usenet.org for details. > .docx is the new MS Word format. > > Docx Converter <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31504> I don't know about the OP, but the $19.95 this costs is roughly $19.95 more than I care to spend to deal with the problem at my end. Now, I'm running Leopard, so I have that version of TextEdit, so it's not an issue here. Anyway, I found a web site that offers free conversions for .docx and many other formats: http://www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php#documents I haven't tried it, though. Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude > Anyway, I found a web site that offers free conversions for .docx and > many other formats: NeoOffice will open .docx files. SignatureW. Oates > > I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and the icon > > has "zip" written on it. My emac is running 10.4.11, and I have office [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Or ask your relative to save the file in the older .doc format and send > it again. Turns out that NeoOffice and OpenOffice both open it quite nicely. They're both free, to boot. On Jun 1, 12:03 pm, Steve Hix <se...@NOSPAMspeakeasy.netINVALID> wrote: > > In article <C468726D.102D%blh...@sbcglobal.net>, Bob Hunt > > <blh...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > They're both free, to boot. Pages '08 will also open .docx files, and actually does a better job than Leopard's Text Edit, in that Pages can handle more advanced formatting. -- Dave Fritzinger Honolulu, HI ?Dave Balderstone wrote:?> Bob Hunt <blh555@sbcglobal.net> wrote:?>> I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and the icon?>> has "zip" written on it. My emac is running 10.4.11, and I have office?>> 2004, but I could not open the file, nor unstuff it. I tried google, but?>> didn't find any help. Does anyone have any suggestions for opening this?>> file??> ?> .docx is the new MS Word format.?> ?> Docx Converter <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31504>?> ?> TextEdit under Leopard (10.5) will open docx files.?> ?> Office 2008 will obviously open them, too.??Or get the new native OS X ver. of Openoffice Aqua 3.0. The link points ?to the PPC version for PowerPC Macs.?http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua-PPC.html??> Or ask your relative to save the file in the older .doc format and send?> it again.??Yes, and the file size will also be smaller without all tha XML/OOXML crap!??Cheers, Erik Richard??-- ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~? Rgds. GrŸ§e, Mvh. Erik Richard S¿rensen, Member of ADC? <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com>? NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~? Erik Richard Sørensen <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.dk> wrote: ?Dave Balderstone wrote:?> Bob Hunt <blh555@sbcglobal.net> wrote:?>> I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and the icon?>> has "zip" written on it. My emac is running 10.4.11, and I have office?>> 2004, but I could not open the file, nor unstuff it. I tried google, but?>> didn't find any help. Does anyone have any suggestions for opening this?>> file??> ?> .docx is the new MS Word format.?> ?> Docx Converter <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/31504>?> ?> TextEdit under Leopard (10.5) will open docx files.?> ?> Office 2008 will obviously open them, too.??Or get the new native OS X ver. of Openoffice Aqua 3.0. The link points ?to the PPC version for PowerPC Macs.?http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua-PPC.html??> Or ask your relative to save the file in the older .doc format and send?> it again.??Yes, and the file size will also be smaller without all tha XML/OOXML crap!??Cheers, Erik Richard??-- ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~? Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC? <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com>? NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~? Um, Erik, you may want to do something about this. That's a copy and paste job so you can see what your post looked like here, in MacSOUP. Everyone else's posts display properly here. I checked using MT-NW also, and it was the same there. Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude > Erik Richard Sørensen <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > Everyone else's posts display properly here. I checked using MT-NW also, > and it was the same there. FWIW, I, too have MT-NW and it came through perfectly. > > Um, Erik, you may want to do something about this. That's a copy and > > paste job so you can see what your post looked like here, in MacSOUP. > > Everyone else's posts display properly here. I checked using MT-NW also, > > and it was the same there. > > FWIW, I, too have MT-NW and it came through perfectly. The plot thickens. JR just posted that he saw it displayed just as I did, using MT-NW, and Erik has made two subsequent posts that are aproblematic. Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude In article <kurtullman-45A27F.18414701062008@70-3-168-216.area5.spcsdns.net>, > FWIW, I, too have MT-NW and it came through perfectly. Are you sure? He posted the same message three times: twice correctly, and once malformed. My response was to the malformed version. SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group rather than directly to me, as E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. You'll need to use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR In article <kurtullman-45A27F.18414701062008@70-3-168-216.area5.spcsdns.net>, > > Erik Richard Sørensen <NOSPAM@NOSPAM.dk> wrote: > > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > FWIW, I, too have MT-NW and it came through perfectly. I'm using MT-NW, and it didn't, here. > Um, Erik, you may want to do something about this. That's a copy and > paste job so you can see what your post looked like here, in MacSOUP. > Everyone else's posts display properly here. I checked using MT-NW also, > and it was the same there. I discovered it as soon as I controlled receipt in the group and removed it... It's David, who is the 'problem' this time.:-) - He replied to a 'Western (Macroman)' - and not 'Western (ISO-8859-1)'.... cheers, Erik Richard Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I discovered it as soon as I controlled receipt in the group and removed > it... It's David, who is the 'problem' this time.:-) - He replied to a > 'Western (Macroman)' - and not 'Western (ISO-8859-1)'.... Oh, I have a hunch this is not going to go over well... Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude > I controlled receipt in the group and removed it Huh? You controlled what? Removed what? SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group rather than directly to me, as E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. You'll need to use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > > I controlled receipt in the group and removed it > > Huh? You controlled what? Removed what? Oh, come on, JR. He did exactly what we said in that other thread earlier couldn't possibly be done in Usenet. Seriously, he thinks he canceled his post. Never mind the fact that we've all read it, which really should indicate that it's there for us to read. Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude > > > I controlled receipt in the group and removed it > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > canceled his post. Never mind the fact that we've all read it, which > really should indicate that it's there for us to read. Oh. That explains thing perfectly. I love reading poasts that don't exist. It adds something to the day. SignatureWoodworking links and more at http://www.woodenwabbits.com -------------- I kill all messages from Google Groups. See http://improve-usenet.org for details. >>>> I controlled receipt in the group and removed it >>> Huh? You controlled what? Removed what? [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > I love reading poasts that don't exist. It adds something to the day. Maybe you do..-) - But stop using that crap called 'Western(MacRoman)' and instead use either ISO-latin-1 og Western (ISO-8859-1)! - If SeaMonkey hasn't alerted me that an incorrect character encoding was being used, you'd get the same garbage in this reply... If I send a wrong message to a certain usenetgroup, I can remove this message again. - But it seems as if some usenet servers are setup otherwise. - which can mean that wrong posts aren't deleted correctly. Here in the Danish usenet hierachy, which is controlled and managed by the Danish TDC telephone company, you can remove the message body completely and only the header is left back. but you must do it immediately and do it before someone might have downloaded it. If someone got it down, and you remove your original posting, the eventually replies still will occour. - And you can only remove your own postings... cheers, Erik Richard Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ... But stop using that crap called 'Western(MacRoman)' > and instead use either ISO-latin-1 og Western (ISO-8859-1)! Umm, ER, it's not the MacRoman that is the problem. I've been posting from MT-NT using MacRoman since hell was a pup and it's never gone buggerup. Perhaps the Little Mermaid has stopped watching over the TDC Usenet feed. ;) --Fred > Maybe you do..-) - But stop using that crap called 'Western(MacRoman)' > and instead use either ISO-latin-1 og Western (ISO-8859-1)! - If > SeaMonkey hasn't alerted me that an incorrect character encoding was > being used, you'd get the same garbage in this reply... Why is it, I wonder, that only you have this problem with Dave's posts, though. Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude >> Maybe you do..-) - But stop using that crap called 'Western(MacRoman)' >> and instead use either ISO-latin-1 og Western (ISO-8859-1)! - If [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Why is it, I wonder, that only you have this problem with Dave's posts, > though. I don't know, why Dave has changed his character encoding. earlier on his posts always came through in ISO-Latin-1/ISO8859-1... maybe you don't have the problems, cause you and most on the group are only using ASCII compatible characters, which don't include non-Us characters. - In this case it doesn't matter, whether you use MacRoman or not. And to this also comes that now all newsservers within the EU fellowship have changed all settings to use only IsO standardized setups. - And MacRoman isnot an ISO standard. Cheers, Erik Richard Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Why is it, I wonder, that only you have this problem with Dave's posts, > > though. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > have changed all settings to use only IsO standardized setups. - And > MacRoman isnot an ISO standard. No one else, not one single person anywhere in the world, including others using Mozilla apps, has such a problem with Dave's posts. Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude > > > Why is it, I wonder, that only you have this problem with Dave's posts, > > > though. [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > No one else, not one single person anywhere in the world, including > others using Mozilla apps, has such a problem with Dave's posts. And Dave has changed nothing. But don't waste any time on it. I really don't care whether Erik Richard Sørensen reads any of my posts, or what he experiences when he does. SignatureWoodworking links and more at http://www.woodenwabbits.com -------------- I kill all messages from Google Groups. See http://improve-usenet.org for details. > And Dave has changed nothing. I had a strong hunch that was the case. > But don't waste any time on it. Oh, don't worry. I don't consider any time I've spent on this wasted time. Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude > Oh, come on, JR. He did exactly what we said in that other thread > earlier couldn't possibly be done in Usenet. Seriously, he thinks he > canceled his post. Never mind the fact that we've all read it, which > really should indicate that it's there for us to read. Some nntp hosts will still allow you to cancel your own messages, I believe. If you do it fast enough, Google won't have gotten it. SignatureW. Oates > > Oh, come on, JR. He did exactly what we said in that other thread > > earlier couldn't possibly be done in Usenet. Seriously, he thinks he [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Some nntp hosts will still allow you to cancel your own messages, I > believe. This may be true, but to say you've canceled something you already know has gotten distributed? Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude >> I controlled receipt in the group and removed it > > Huh? You controlled what? That my reply came through correctly... > Removed what? The carbaged post... - But sometimes you can't manage to delete it again, before a certain newsreader already has picked it up and downloaded it to disk... Cheeers, Erik Richard Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >> I controlled receipt in the group and removed it > > > > Huh? You controlled what? > > That my reply came through correctly... But you didn't control anything. Three individual posts from you made it to the news group. > > Removed what? > > The carbaged post... - But sometimes you can't manage to delete it > again, before a certain newsreader already has picked it up and > downloaded it to disk... Not sometimes - most times. Most news servers these days do not support cancellation of posts. SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group rather than directly to me, as E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. You'll need to use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > I discovered it as soon as I controlled receipt in the group and removed > it I know English isn't your first language, Erik, but are you even TRYING? SignatureWoodworking links and more at http://www.woodenwabbits.com -------------- I kill all messages from Google Groups. See http://improve-usenet.org for details. > ?Dave Balderstone wrote:?> Bob Hunt <blh555@sbcglobal.net> wrote:?>> I have > received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and the icon?>> has [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~? My goodness... Mental note: Mozilla sucks for Usenet SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group rather than directly to me, as E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. You'll need to use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > Mental note: Mozilla sucks for Usenet Well, maybe so for other reasons (SeaMonkey is a successor to the old 7.x and earlier Netscape, essentially FireFox and Thunderbird combined, and we've already noted just how primitive Thunderbird's filtering capabilities are), but this isn't something I've ever seen from anyone's posts via Mozilla before, and that includes Erik's posts. Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude > My goodness... > > Mental note: Mozilla sucks for Usenet Nope, 'MacRoman' sucks for usenet.:-) Cheers, Erik Richard Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, >> and the icon has "zip" written on it. My emac is running 10.4.11, [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Office 2008 will obviously open them, too. Or get the new native OS X ver. of Openoffice Aqua 3.0. The link points to the PPC version for PowerPC Macs. http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua-PPC.html > Or ask your relative to save the file in the older .doc format and > send it again. Yes, and the file size will also be smaller without all tha XML/OOXML crap! Cheers, Erik Richard Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, >> and the icon has "zip" written on it. My emac is running 10.4.11, [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Office 2008 will obviously open them, too. Or get the new native OS X ver. of Openoffice Aqua 3.0. The link points to the PPC version for PowerPC Macs. http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/download/aqua-PPC.html > Or ask your relative to save the file in the older .doc format and > send it again. Yes, and the file size will also be smaller without all tha XML/OOXML crap! Cheers, Erik Richard Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and the icon >> has "zip" written on it. My emac is running 10.4.11, and I have office [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Or ask your relative to save the file in the older .doc format and send > it again. Okay, so here I am posting with Sea Monkey 1.1.9, with all the default settings left intact, and Dave's post displays properly when I read it and when I quote it. >>> I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and >>> the icon [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > settings left intact, and Dave's post displays properly when I read it > and when I quote it. Yep! - and this is because SeaMonkey as standard use the automatic character encoding. - And if i didn't change it back to ISO-8859-1, it again turns out garbaged. It is not the reading in the group that causes the problem. The problem comes, as soon as you hit the reply button/command, then SeaMonkey changes to the system default character encoding, which is used on your computer, if you haven't set up any changed encoding as default encoding type in the prefs settings. And since I'm using Danish system for my daily work, ISO-8859-1 of course is the default settings here. I probably won't have the problems, if I change from danish to US English as my default system language, - unless I've set SeaMonkey to use a fixed ISO-8859-1 setting instead of the automatic settings.... cheers, Erik Richard Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>> I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and >>>> the icon [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > unless I've set SeaMonkey to use a fixed ISO-8859-1 setting instead of > the automatic settings.... Since you do your daily Danish work on a Danish keyboard, which I suppose is awerty (yes, I'm too lazy to check it out for myself), why not use the Norwegian Extended (Unicode) keyboard, which would serve all international needs? Unless you like U. S. qwerty, in which case U. S. Extended would be useful. I can't see why ISO-8859-1 has any attraction for you at all. I am American born and bred and use U. S. Extended in preference to it, since it serves reading and writing texts in multiple languages. Signature++====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====+====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====++ ||Arnold VICTOR, New York City, i. e., <arvimideQ@Wearthlink.net> || ||Arnoldo VIKTORO, Nov-jorkurbo, t. e., <arvimideQ@Wearthlink.net> || ||Remove capital letters from e-mail address for correct address/ || || Forigu majusklajn literojn el e-poŝta adreso por ĝusta adreso || ++====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====+====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====++ NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse or protection. >>> Okay, so here I am posting with Sea Monkey 1.1.9, with all the >>> default settings left intact, and Dave's post displays properly when [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Since you do your daily Danish work on a Danish keyboard, which I > suppose is awerty (yes, I'm too lazy to check it out for myself), I tink you mean ASERTY and not AWERTY? > why > not use the Norwegian Extended (Unicode) keyboard, which would serve all [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > preference to it, since it serves reading and writing texts in multiple > languages. In Danish and Norwegian we have three special characters that doesn't exist in either US or other english languages - the æÆ, øØ and åÅ, so that won't change anything, if I changed to a Norwegian keyboard. - And on the Norwegian the æÆ and øØ are moved around, so where I in Danis write the æÆ, I'll in Norwegian write the øØ and visa-versa. - These special Scandinavian characters are in reality double characters - æÆ = ae/AA, øØ = oe/OE and åÅ = aa/AA... The keyboard I'm using is a black/silverish Apple Pro QWERTY with Danish keyboard layout.... cheers, Erik Richard Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>>> Okay, so here I am posting with Sea Monkey 1.1.9, with all the >>>> default settings left intact, and Dave's post displays properly when >>>> I read it and when I quote it. ... >> Since you do your daily Danish work on a Danish keyboard, which I >> suppose is awerty (yes, I'm too lazy to check it out for myself), > > I tink you mean ASERTY and not AWERTY? I just didn't know about the existence of ASERTY: AWERTY is for continental French and I also know about QWERTZ for German. >> why not use the Norwegian Extended (Unicode) keyboard, which would >> serve all international needs? Unless you like U. S. qwerty, in which [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > The keyboard I'm using is a black/silverish Apple Pro QWERTY with Danish > keyboard layout.... I don't understand having QWERTY but a Danish ASERTY layout on one single keyboard. Is it just those three special characters in the places you expect them on a Danish ASERTY keyboard, replacing the keys in the QWERTY-standard keyboard layout? I would call that a Danish-modified QWERTY keyboard. Chacun à son goût. Might that not explain your problem, i. e., you misread the characters typed on a standard QWERTY keyboard in those three places modified on your keyboard? That used to happen in the old Mac version of Latin X and modified Latin X keyboard layouts. I thought Apple's transition to Unicode starting in System 9 solved that problem; at least it did for me using U. S. Extended and its ancestors. Signature++====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====+====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====++ ||Arnold VICTOR, New York City, i. e., <arvimideQ@Wearthlink.net> || ||Arnoldo VIKTORO, Nov-jorkurbo, t. e., <arvimideQ@Wearthlink.net> || ||Remove capital letters from e-mail address for correct address/ || || Forigu majusklajn literojn el e-poŝta adreso por ĝusta adreso || ++====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====+====+=====+=====+=====+=====+====++ NOTICE: Due to Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may have read this email without warning, warrant, or notice. They may do this without any judicial or legislative oversight. You have no recourse or protection. > I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and the icon > has "zip" written on it. My emac is running 10.4.11, and I have office > 2004, but I could not open the file, nor unstuff it. I tried google, but > didn't find any help. Does anyone have any suggestions for opening this > file? That's an evil Microsoft Office Open XML File. Microsoft decided that, rather than supporting the open standard Open Document XML format the rest of the world is using, they would be better served if they created their own proprietary, pseudo-open format called Open XML. Microsoft's antics regarding ths Open XML format have been in tech news for a long time now. Microsoft has pulled every low-handed stunt in the book to try to push their own proprietary format on the world to hurt the already-established, superior Open Document XML format as much as possible. Their goal, of course, is to make other companies dependent on the Office Open XML format so they'll have to pay Microsoft to use it. Google for details. I digress... Microsoft created a converter for Office 2004 users to give them until the end of 2008 to upgrade to Office 2008, which has built-in support for Open XML files. Look in the bottom section of this web page for "Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2.1 (Beta)": <http://preview.tinyurl.com/2edkao> SignaturePlease send all responses to the relevant news group rather than directly to me, as E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. I often do not read posts from Google Groups. Use a real news reader if you want me to see your posts. JR > I have received a file from a relative that has a suffix .docx, and the icon > has "zip" written on it. My emac is running 10.4.11, and I have office > 2004, but I could not open the file, nor unstuff it. I tried google, but > didn't find any help. Does anyone have any suggestions for opening this > file? Microsoft offers a converter at: <http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=AB66B5BF-37C3-4 1BB-945E-784782FC582C&displaylang=en> or <http://tinyurl.com/2ejtfc> SignatureD.F. Manno | dfmanno@mail.com The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. (John F. Kennedy) |
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