Here’s a program that would be useful. You point it at a directory and it
runs around finding all the .doc, .xls, and
.ppt files, and generates an OOXML version of each. In the old
days, you’d use VBA to do this kind of thing. I’m behind on this kind of
technology, but I assume there’s something on Windows that would make this
tractable?
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From: Albin Blaschka (Feb 10 2008, at 13:38)
Hello,
maybe this can help...
http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter
They say on their website (quote):
JODConverter, the Java OpenDocument Converter, converts documents between different office formats.
It leverages OpenOffice.org, which provides arguably the best import/export filters for OpenDocument and Microsoft Office formats available today.
(quote ends)
So, maybe you can in combination with the plugin to convert between open office and microsoft do what you want...
http://www.oooninja.com/2008/01/convert-openxml-docx-etc-in-linux-using.html
I must say, I did not try it, I just looked into my bookmarks-collection where those links are lurking around... ;-)
Greetings from Austria!
Albin
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From: Parand Tony Darugar (Feb 10 2008, at 13:52)
JODConverter might do it for you: http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter
Here's how I use it to convert to html/flash/etc:
http://parand.com/say/index.php/2008/01/02/convert-documents-from-docpptxlsetc-to-htmlpdfflashetc-using-openofficeorg/
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From: Anon (Feb 10 2008, at 14:07)
File -> Wizards -> Document Converter... ?
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From: Stuart Dootson (Feb 10 2008, at 14:16)
Here's a solution for Word documents. It uses the VBScripting that's shipped with Windows since at least Windows 2000.
Anyway - Save the code below as 'conv.vbs'
Execute from the command line with
cscript conv.vbs <directory>
It has no error handling and presumes that a) Word isn't open before running, and b) you have Word 2007+ installed. And other assumptions.
---------- SNIP ----------
Dim FSO
Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Dim Word
Set Word = Nothing
Sub ConvWord(File)
If Word Is Nothing then
Set Word = CreateObject("Word.Application")
End If
Wscript.Echo "Converting " & File.Name & " to " & File.Name & ".docx"
Word.ChangeFileOpenDirectory File.ParentFolder.Path
Word.Documents.Open File.Name
Word.ActiveDocument.SaveAs File.Name & ".docx", 12
End Sub
Sub ConvDocsInDir(Directory)
Dim file
For Each file In fso.GetFolder(Directory).Files
if fso.GetExtensionName(file) = "doc" and right(file.name,2) <> "~$" then
ConvWord file
end if
Next
End Sub
ConvDocsInDir Wscript.Arguments(0)
If Not(Word Is Nothing) then
Word.Quit
Set Word = Nothing
End If
---------- SNIP ----------
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From: James (Feb 10 2008, at 14:49)
I use the macro outlined at http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/01/11/from-microsoft-to-openoffice.html to achieve this.
I have a 30 line ruby script in ~/bin/ that basically wraps the following call in some boilerplate code for argument parsing, recursing through a path, etc:
ooffice -invisible "macro:///Standard.MyConversions.SaveAsOOO(<filename>)"
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From: Anon (Feb 11 2008, at 10:36)
Sorry, in my earlier comment I misunderstood that you were looking to do use MSOffice (OOXML gets me every time). I tried to post a correction but I seemed to hit some sort of blog posting issue...
Perhaps http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/42a75e09-a6e1-4c0f-b77a-dcfa5b6f11c51033.mspx?mfr=true will help?
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From: Doug (Feb 12 2008, at 04:12)
Yes, the OMPM mentioned above (on technet) will do what you want.
FYI, some more tips on using it here: http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/OfficeDeployment.OMPMContributions
And some info on programmatic use here: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmahugh/archive/2007/02/09/converting-office-documents-to-open-xml.aspx
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