[SOLVED] Thin text editor to read/write .docx files?

Nick_C · 10-24-2012, 03:02 PM

Are there any simple and thin text editors out there that can read M$ .docx files? It would be handy if I could read & write to these when connected to a CentOS server. What I don't really want to do is install a whole 'Office' suite just to get a text editor.

Thanks,
Nick

TobiSGD · 10-24-2012, 04:37 PM

You need to understand the difference between a text-editor and a word-processor. OpenOffice's Writer program is not a text-editor (which simply is there for editing text), but a word-processor (handling layouts, fonts, graphics, ...).
So what you really are searching is a standalone word-processor able to handle the docx (Office Open XML) format.

While it does not support all features of docx I think Abiword is what you are searching.

John VV · 10-24-2012, 06:08 PM

go-office
koffice
and of coarse
MS Office 2012 or 2010 or 2008 depending on just WHAT version of "docx" it is

http://openxmlviewer.codeplex.com/
? maybe or not
MS has changed the docx format so many times that ?????
only Microsoft knows if it works on that file of yours

or " docx2txt "
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docx2txt/
? maybe or not
MS has changed the docx format so many times that ?????
only Microsoft knows if it works on that file of yours

TobiSGD · 10-24-2012, 06:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

MS has changed the docx format so many times that ?????
only Microsoft knows if it works on that file of yours

Actually docx (Office Open XML) is a standard (ECMA-376 and ISO/IEC-29500) and the changes made by Microsoft to the various Office versions were to make support for that standard better.
For example,

Quote:

Microsoft Office 2010 provides read support for ECMA-376, read/write support for ISO/IEC 29500 Transitional, and read support for ISO/IEC 29500 Strict.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docx

So Microsoft has actually not changed the format, but made Office more standard compliant.

Nick_C · 10-25-2012, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

While it does not support all features of docx I think Abiword is what you are searching.

Looks good but unfortunately Abiword does not seem to be available in any of the CentOS 6 repositories.

TobiSGD · 10-25-2012, 07:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick_C

Looks good but unfortunately Abiword does not seem to be available in any of the CentOS 6 repositories.

http://pkgs.repoforge.org/abiword/

Nick_C · 10-25-2012, 09:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

http://pkgs.repoforge.org/abiword/

Cheers Tobi, that worked great.

TobiSGD · 10-25-2012, 10:12 AM

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