[Virtualacorn-list] HostFS and .doc .docx .xls and .xlsx

[Martin Wynn]

In message <ee7d859b51.rogerarm at rogerarm.freeuk.com>
          Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:


[snip]
> 
> 
> I've put doc and docx on the same line
> and I've put xlx and xlsx on the same line
> 
> [That's 'cos I've no idea what the final 'x' means anyway, but perhaps
> it means an x,y grid of cells? i.e. a spreadsheet?]
> 
> I only ask because someone sent me an xlsx file, and double-clicking
> on it in RO made something on RO say it would soon be opening and
> appearing on my PC (which is on the same computer). However, this
> message was lying, it never appeared anywhere on the PC. This has
> happened before for other fie formats, so I am not sure what is going
> on. I assume UniControl had something to do with it, but I don't know
> what, cos nowt happened anywhere, neither on RO nor on the PC.

docx and xlsx are the full saved versions of the latest incarnations 
of Microsoft Office (2007>2010) Word and Excel. There are free readers 
available from Microsoft for use with earlier versions of office.

HTH
Martin

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