>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf >Of mark >Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 5:44 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Docx format ? > >>> Open Office 3 will do it. >>> Yep, as well as .xlsx >> >> What about Powerpoint presentations, ie .pptx-files? Do they look anywhere >> near the original look when opened in MS Office? >> >No clue - haven't run into one of those yet. > >> I'm looking into setting up a public computer in our seminar room, running >> CentOS on an old door-stopper I had handy; a P3/500 with barely 500MB RAM. >> >Barely, he says. "Barely".... > > mark, remembering the hot new ->30MB<- h/d his bosses gave him > in '89 as a holiday present Actually, I had to swap the disks to a newer machine, the obsolete Dell I had intended for this had a problem with the BIOS or something, so that whenever it rebooted it went into some kind of standby and I had to first turn it off completely and then turn it on again. So much for being environmentally aware and friendly to the nature by reusing old hardware... /8-} Anyway, I'll continue to look into OOO and pptx. -- /Sorin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 5106 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091127/0bba8bcf/attachment-0003.bin>