Novell Inc. posted an Open XML translator for the OpenOffice.org productivity suite today, making good on a December 2006 promise to add Microsoft Office 2007 file format capability to the open ...

Conversion schedule On Thursday, the Open XML Translator project intends to release a prototype of software that will change Word documents to OpenDocument, and vice versa. The goal is to have a ...

Independent of the Sourceforge.net Open XML/ODF translator project, Sun Microsystems Inc. last week released a 1.0 version of its own ODF translator add-in for Office, called Sun ODF Plugin.

The plug-in is supposed to translate Open XML-based documents into DAISY XML in order to assist blind or print-disabled computer users to read and publish navigatable multimedia content.

Once the Open XML Translator plug-in is finalized at the end of the year, it will be interesting to see how it stacks up next to the ODF Plugin developed by the OpenDocument Foundation Inc.

Learn More. BARCELONA—Microsoft and the Daisy Consortium are working together to create a text-to-audio translation plug-in for visually impaired users of Open XML-enabled Microsoft Word documents.

Version 1.0 of the Open XML Translator is available from SourceForge.net and work is underway on plugins for Excel 2007 and Powerpoint 2007.

It will also allow customers to set ODF as the default file format for Office 2007. To also provide ODF support for users of earlier versions of Microsoft Office (Office XP and Office 2003), Microsoft ...

In a related development, Microsoft also announced the beta release of translation tools for several Office programs, including the 2003 and 2007 versions of Excel and PowerPoint, as well as Windows ...

Microsoft is to fund the development of a translator between the Open XML document format used by the Vista version of Microsoft Office and the emerging Chinese Uniform Office Format (UOF) standard.