ACSS Newsletter - Office Suite Converters

Microsoft 2007 Format > OpenOffice

Mac

If your a Mac user  and your have Microsoft Office X or 2004 and find yourself confronted with being unable to open the new format for Microsoft Office 2007 documents, Microsoft has released a Beta version of a converter. You can download it at:

http://tinyurl.com/3ysg57


Windows OpenOffice Users

Novell has released an converter for OpenOffice on Windows, which can be downloaded at:
http://tinyurl.com/2bhk9t


Suse Linux Users

Novell has released an converter for OpenOffice on Suse Linux, which can be downloaded at:
http://tinyurl.com/2bhk9t



OpenOffice Format > Microsoft Office 2003

Now in the reverse if you have Microsoft Office 2003 (and this is only for Office 2003 right now), Sun Microsystems has released a converter to import OpenOffice files into Microsoft Office.
This converter can be downloaded at:

http://www.sun.com/software/star/openoffice/

(As a caveat, unfortunately you will have to register to download the converter.)