Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2 (Beta) Arrives
Microsoft has provided a new beta Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2 (Beta) that converts Office files that use Microsoft's new Open XML file format (files created in Office 2007 for Windows) into a file format that Office 2004 for the Mac can read. This release promises improved conversion of files containing inline graphics, amongst other things for Word and PowerPoint documents only.
( Free ) Read The New Office 2007 XML File Format (.docx)
Working with the new Windows Office 2007 documents under Mac OS X can be a challenge until Microsoft finally gets around to releasing the free converters they promised. The new Office 2007 for Windows now defaults to save documents in a new format dubbed "Open XML." These are actually ZIP packages that contain the various XML files as well as the images and other data. For instance, in a .docx document (created by Word 2007), there is a directory labeled word that contains various XML documents with the actual text. For Excel, items are located in the /excel directory, etc. Office 2007 users can do a "save as" to use the old standard (.doc, .xls, .ppt) files. But many users will never realize this and you may end up receiving the new .docx file that you can not open.
This will be a problem for Windows user that have not upgraded yet or people using OpenOffice.org as they will not be able to open these files yet. OpenOffice.org plans a release in January to support this new file format. Until these upgrades and converters arrive we will be dealing with this incompatibility with the new Office 2007.
Here are some solutions that will help you read these files in the meantime:
docx-converter.com is a web site that can translate a new Microsoft Word 2007 .docx file into a simple html file. According to its creators, the tool "strips out some of the formatting, but now supports bold, italic, and underlined text. Left, right, center, and justified alignment. Unicode characters, and more!" This is a great interim solution that has the key advantage of retaining some formatting, but the site might buckle under heavy load. An Automator script that does the same thing is available at www.jfalcon.org.
Manual Method - BBEdit or TextMate, have a "strip all tags" function you can use on the Word XML file. To see the XML file, though, you first need to change the .docx extension to .zip, then expand that archive in the Finder. Open the resulting folder, go into the word folder, and open the document.xml folder in BBEdit or TextMate, then use each app's strip tags function to pull out the text.
I feel confident that there will soon be a conversion tool available from some enterprising programmer for your desktop that might beat Microsoft's promised solution. If you come across one drop me a line.
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After a lot of trial and error, and without having any success to develop a decent piece of programming to call JSON-feeds recursively, I suddenly had a flash of insight in how we can cross the 100 posts limit of the Table of Contents Widget. It's all because of Annie, one of those friends in the Blogosphere that makes me (and others) think. She has 101 blog posts, and is in dire need of a Table of Contents that can list all 101 of them. Well, check out my sidebar, the link will show Annie's table of contents, with all 101 of them!
The new BlogToc Widget release is updated in several ways:
- it now supports > 100 posts
- the link is more user-friendly
- a note is added displaying number of posts and filter applied
If you have more than 100 posts, you have to duplicate the JSON-script-call that is in your sidebar several times, each time with a different start-index. If you have more than 100 posts, you need 2 calls like this:
<script src="http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&start-index=1&max-results=100&callback=loadtoc"></script>
<script src="http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&start-index=101&max-results=100&callback=loadtoc"></script>
If you go beyond 200, you will have to add another line, starting at start-index=201 and so on.
It is as simple as that. Took me DAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYS to come up with it.
There is a new class added, .toc-note, that you can use to style the top-line. I used a simple styling, a 5px left-padding and a 80% font size.
Next stop: adding customization options
(especially language).