[ale] New M$oft Word file format

[Greg Freemyer]

Been around for a couple years.

OpenOffice works with them.  (I have not tested that statement very much.)

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:20 PM, drifter<drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:
> Has anyone else hit .docx files.  I just got one as an attachment
> to an email.  Had to extract the archive first and then I still can't read
> the damn thing as it is pulled into its component parts:
> document.xml
> fontTable.xml
> settings.xml
> styles.xml
> webSettings.xml
>
>
> The document file is the raw text, but nearly unreadable as all the
> formatting  cues have been replaced with @,*,$; the CR/LFs have been
> removed altogether.
>
> The file in question was created by the current Mac version of Word (until
> next week, that is).
>
> Apparently the docx format is the default.
>
> I am not amused.
>
> Sean
>
>
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