Working with Word 2007 Documents(.docx) in Ubuntu

Microsoft Office 2007 uses a new file format, called Office OpenXML, as the default file format. It is based on XML and uses the ZIP file container.So Word 2007 documents are incompatible with OpenOffice.Here's how to make it compatible.

UPDATE: This post is now obsolete. You can now use odf-converter-integrator to open word 2007 files in OpenOffice.org

1.Download the OpenXML Translator
From: http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58%7E
filename: odf-converter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm

2. Use alien to convert it to a Slackware tgz file
Code:
fakeroot alien -ct odf-converter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm

If fakeroot and alien is not installed then install it
Code:
sudo apt-get install alien fakeroot

3. Unpack the slackware tgz file
Code:
tar xzf odf-converter-1.0.0.tgz

4. Copy three files into your OpenOffice.org directories -- note that the usr that you're copying from is a directory that was inside the tgz file.
Code:

sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/OdfConverter /usr/lib/openoffice/program/
sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/
sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/MOOXTypeDetection.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/

5. Restart OpenOffice and you can now save and open Word 2007 docx files.