I personally have found that when trying to open old DOC format files that OpenOffice.org does a much better job than the latest version of Word does.
Especially if you have any legacy Word 1.0 or 2.0 documents that can't be upgraded to the latest format for contractual reasons - Office 2007 will not open those files correctly, and those files are officially unsupported by Microsoft.
I'm surprised that more people don't just use.ODF, it's a published, open standard that is as trivial to write a parser for as it is to just unzip the file and look at the XML directly...
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For that matter, There's Smiling Bob, too.
I personally have found that when trying to open old DOC format files that OpenOffice.org does a much better job than the latest version of Word does.
.ODF, it's a published, open standard that is as trivial to write a parser for as it is to just unzip the file and look at the XML directly...
Especially if you have any legacy Word 1.0 or 2.0 documents that can't be upgraded to the latest format for contractual reasons - Office 2007 will not open those files correctly, and those files are officially unsupported by Microsoft.
I'm surprised that more people don't just use