Open Office How to open xml

[Robin Laing]

roland wrote:
> Hello,
> I received a doc Contract_NL_186391_348543542.doc, which was delivered 
> together with a zip file, containing the following:
> Archive:  Contract_NL_186391_348543542.zip
>   inflating: [Content_Types].xml
>   inflating: _rels/.rels
>   inflating: word/_rels/document.xml.rels
>   inflating: word/document.xml
>   inflating: word/_rels/header2.xml.rels
>   inflating: word/_rels/header1.xml.rels
>   inflating: word/header4.xml
>   inflating: word/header5.xml
>   inflating: word/_rels/header5.xml.rels
>   inflating: word/_rels/header4.xml.rels
>   inflating: word/_rels/header3.xml.rels
>   inflating: word/footer3.xml
>   inflating: word/header3.xml
>   inflating: word/header2.xml
>   inflating: word/footnotes.xml
>   inflating: word/endnotes.xml
>   inflating: word/footer2.xml
>   inflating: word/header1.xml
>   inflating: word/footer1.xml
>   inflating: word/theme/theme1.xml
>   inflating: word/media/image1.wmf
>   inflating: word/settings.xml
>   inflating: word/webSettings.xml
>   inflating: word/fontTable.xml
>   inflating: docProps/custom.xml
>   inflating: docProps/app.xml
>   inflating: docProps/core.xml
>   inflating: word/numbering.xml
>   inflating: word/styles.xml
> Apparently it is a Msword doc.
> 
> Does anybody knows how to open it?
> Thanks for any help

Looks like a docx (almost OOXML) file, not a doc file.  There are some 
docx converters on the web. The easiest is to ask for the original 
sender to send in a standard format such as ODF or pdf unless you need 
it read.  Let them know that you will have to use a public web site to 
convert the file if the are not inclined to convert it.

Not all users have access to Office 2007.

I also understand that you can download the OpenOffice 4.0 development 
package and try it.  Support for OOXML is reported in it.

Hopefully OOXML won't get ISO approval this week and Microsoft will have 
to support ODF.
-- 
Robin Laing