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

[Chris Hughes]

In message <b5bb8a9b51.Dad at mw004f6960.blueyonder.co.uk>
          Martin Wynn <m.wynn at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> 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.

Plus the Office 2003 Compatibity Pack (which allows reading and 
writing of docx and xlsx files.

Or Open Office 3 latest with the options to load Word/Excel files 
turned on.


-- 
Chris Hughes
Wakefield RISC OS Computer Show - 16th April 2011
http://www.wakefieldshow.org.uk