Wurzel

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Hi

Does any one know if there is a plugin that I can install in MS Word so that I can open files written in Open office and have the .ods extension?

Cheers

Steve

Pete The Biker

Acording to Wikipedia:-


Third party support: Three OpenOpenOffice plug-ins for Microsoft Office

There are currently two third-party plug-ins: ooo-word-filter http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooo-word-filter and OpenOpenOffice O3 http://o3.phase-n.com/ . A third one was announced by the OpenDocument Foundation on May 2006 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?s...60504015438308

OpenOpenOffice is developed by Phase-n, an open source software plug-in for Microsoft Office. With this free plug-in, Microsoft Office will be able to read and write OpenDocument documents (and any other formats supported by OpenOffice.org). Instead of installing a complete office application or even a large plug-in, O3 will install a tiny plug-in to the Microsoft Office system. This tiny plug-in would automatically send the file to some server, which would then do conversions and send it back. The server could be local to an organization (so private information won't go over the Internet) or accessed via the Internet (for those who do not want to set up a server).

A beta of the server half has been completed, and an announcement of a plugin alpha is expected in early January 2006).

Phase-n argues that the main advantage of their approach is simplicity. Their website announces that O3 "requires no new concepts to be explored, no significant development, and leverages the huge existing body of work already created by the OpenOffice.org developers, the CPAN module authors, and the Microsoft .NET and Office teams. Initial ballpark estimates are for less than 2,000 lines of code and only a few hundred hours of development time to get to an initial stable release of the O3 client and server." They also argue that this approach significantly simplifies maintenance; when a new version of OpenOffice.org is released, only the server needs to be upgraded. Its developers have acknowledged that it would be easy to add support for calling a local installation of OpenOffice.org as well, and may add that capability after the plug-in's initial release.

The OpenOpenOffice project is a partnership between the software industry group Open Source Victoria, the technology company Phase N Australia, and the wider Open Source community. Open Source Victoria was convened by Con Zymaris and includes more than 100 Victorian firms and developers (Varghese, 2005).

Hope this helps

Pete

Wurzel

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cool ta.