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| Thread ID: 49881 | 2004-10-03 22:09:00 | .sxw extensions | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 277969 | 2004-10-03 22:09:00 | I’ve been sent a file with a .sxw extension and am unable to open it. Google tells me it belongs to "open-office" but I can’t see where anything else will open it. Are there any tricks like changing extension etc.? |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 277970 | 2004-10-03 22:24:00 | Nope, not with this file. You need OpenOffice.org, an open source office suite. You can get it off (if you have it) the PC World August 2004 cover disc, buy on a disc (to spare you the download) for $5 inc. p&p from www.openoffice.org.nz or, if you have broadband, download it from http://www.openoffice.org/ I use it myself and other than having a very sparse picture gallery, is very good, as it can open and save in formats other than .sxw, such as: PDF (it does it well), .doc, and others. |
Mada (248) | ||
| 277971 | 2004-10-03 22:42:00 | If you'd really rather not get OpenOffice (But you should anyways ;-)), then you have two choices I can see: Ask the origional document creator to export it as a PDF so you can view it Ask somebody (like myself) to convert it for you Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 277972 | 2004-10-03 22:58:00 | Or you use the file association command. | Chris Randal (521) | ||
| 277973 | 2004-10-03 23:02:00 | Chris: Nothing but OpenOffice (Well, I think koffice, abiword & staroffice are the exceptions) can read OpenOffice Formats. Certainly Microsoft Office cant! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 277974 | 2004-10-03 23:31:00 | Your best option is probably to get the sender to resend the file in another format, preferably as an .rtf file which most word processing documents can open. | tommy (2826) | ||
| 277975 | 2004-10-03 23:55:00 | > Chris: > Nothing but OpenOffice (Well, I think koffice, > abiword & staroffice are the exceptions) can read > OpenOffice Formats. > > Certainly Microsoft Office cant! But MS Office can open Star office docs with the same suffix, provided there is a file association set up. I don't know about OO, but Star office has the option to save files in a .doc format - can you ask the sender to do that? |
Chris Randal (521) | ||
| 277976 | 2004-10-04 01:51:00 | Thanks guys, Yes, as this was the first time I’ve encountered the problem I took the easy way out and told the sender I couldn’t open .sxw files and back it came as a .doc. Had me fooled as I’d never heard of sxw files, but I know now. Thought it might have been a type of shockwave until Google told me otherwise. |
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