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Hmmm ... Thanks for that clue. I see msxml5.dll is sitting there on the hard drive, so I'll just have to figure out how to register it. Once/if I do, then presumably I follow the Orca recipe again to attempt an install of the compatibility pack ... BTW, I've found a problem using the command line odfconverter tool : It gives an exception (ie. fails) when KernelEx (v0.3.6a) is installed. Joe.

OK, one final update (unless someone can answer my earlier questions regarding the official "FileFormatConverters.exe" package) : The Sun "ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office 1.2" works great for Word 2000, completing the circle and allowing 'docx' files to find their way back to the 'doc' format with very good fidelity. However, this plug-in doesn't work properly for Excel 2000, producing an irritating error message on startup. As a workaround, to retain functionality with Word but avoid this irritation, I renamed the registry key "HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Excel\Options\OPEN" to "...\OPEN_disabled" (as an alternative to simply deleting the key). Joe.

A further update ... Found a new converter at SourceForge that can input (and output) OpenXML documents : ODFConverter command line OpenXML/ODF translator tool. This converter requires "dotNet 2.0 framework" to be installed (note, I seemed unable to install this until I temporarily uninstalled KernelEx 0.3.6a). This converter is also horribly slow. However, the resultant ODF documents (which Gooo 2.4.1-5 supports very well) are the most accurate translation of the original OpenXML documents of everything I've tried so far. :-) Next thing to try is the Sun "ODF Plugin for Microsoft Office 1.2" package, to give Office the capability to handle those ODF documents created by ODFConverter. Joe.

Hi Sfor, Installed Gooo 2.4.1-5 today to try it out with 'docx' documents. Results were VERY similar to "NW Docx Converter" (docx2rtf). Unfortunately, this means that side-by-side text (not sure if this is some type of table) is split into two sections (like two paragraphs) and no longer lines up. Installed the "odf-converter-2.0-2.oxt" package and this made no difference (other than introduce a new step in the document loading process, for choosing the input format). So far, the most accurate 'docx' interpretation I have achieved is with the "OpenXMLViewer" application. This terminates with an error on W98, but leaves behind an "output.xhtml" document in the %temp% directory, which is the converted document. As for 'xlsx' documents, Gooo 2.4.1-5 does at least load the basic spreadsheet, although graphs are an OLE link that crash the application if you click on them. This is better than nothing, since the other OpenXML applications I've tried simply crash when presented with these 'xlsx' documents. Well, this is some progress at least. I can now open 'docx' and 'xlsx' documents, although not as accurately as I'd like. I just wish I could run the official "FileFormatConverters" package using either KernelEx or the Orca hack. Can anyone identify what version (say by file size and download date) of "FileFormatConverters.exe" they had success with using the Orca hack? Joe.

Hi. Originally, I tried to resolve this problem using KernelEx to install the FileFormatConverters package, only to get the following error : http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...mp;#entry793681 Now with this thread, new hope. I downloaded and installed Orca 2.0.3790.0, extracted the FileFormatConverters.exe contents with 7-Zip, deleted the "LaunchCondition" entry in the MSI file, double-clicked the modified MSI and installed without any apparent errors. So far, so good. (I even rebooted just in case.) However, all that happens when I try to open a 'docx' file in Word 2000 is the error "There was an error opening the file", followed by a blank document. Opening an 'xlsx' file in Excel 2000 gives an error message to the effect "Sorry, this file is corrupted, would you like to salvage some text from it?". (The files open OK with the 2007 MS Office applications on an XP machine.) Any ideas? I believe I've followed the above recipe exactly, yet no joy. The FileFormatConverters.exe file is 28 868 320 bytes in size and was downloaded on 2008/04/23. I tried a new download today and the current file is identical. Has anyone had success with this current release of FileFormatConverters.exe? Joe.

Unfortunately, all I get when attempting to download is an Error 403! :-( Joe. PS. It's now about two weeks later, and the downloading problem with mdgx.com seems to have been fixed! :-)