[FX.php List] [OFF] Trouble with clients trying to download DOCX files from web server

[Alex Gates]

The .docx format is the default format in Word 2008.

Tiger has the ability to open .doc natively (in text edit) - and I 
imagine Leopard was made to address .docx natively as well.

Perhaps I'm missing something here - but even if your client requires 
that all file types can be uploaded, you surely can't guarantee everyone 
will be able to properly open every file type.

Office 08 for Mac will be out in mid-january. Until then, in order for 
Tiger users (who use microsoft office) to be able to open .docx, they 
will need to install the plugins that andy linked to.

I believe open office can handle .docx as well.

Alex


Bob Patin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks, but my Leopard machine, which is totally Microsoft-free, deals 
> with the download fine. However, my client, who DOES have MS Word on his 
> Mac, is running Tiger, and he was having trouble.
> 
> Frustrating...
> 
> BP
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Dec 30, 2007, at 2:39 PM, Andy Walz wrote:
> 
>> Bob-  I'm not sure if this will be helpful but as I understand it, for 
>> Macs that do not have MS Office 2008 for Mac you need this plug-in in 
>> order use .docx, .pptx, or any of the new MS file types at all.
>>
>> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/microsoftofficeopenxmlfileformatconverter.html
>> or
>> http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/office2004/converterbeta_0_2.xml 
>> <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.aspx?pid=download&location=/mac/download/office2004/converterbeta_0_2.xml>
>>
>> Gotta love Microsoft!
>> Andy
>>  
> 
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