Postscript to a symposium - and dealing with docx!
ROME: 2nd August 2007 -- It seems appropriate to interrupt the steady
flow of material now coming from Hua Hin with a throwback item -
throwback, that is, to two previous austraLasias.
The Berkeley Symposium: well, at least we
know people read austraLasia! Several made contact after that
news item to say, entirely correctly, 'we were there but you didn't
mention us'. Of course. The news information came via a
European source who was chiefly writing for his readership, and naming
one set of nations and not the other. It simply underlines the
value of people in our region dropping a line with 'their' info about
events that involve our region, even if it means getting double or
triple versions. That can be sorted out at the editorial end.
It is worth mentioning, then, that from the EAO
region, the fill lineup of participants was as follows:
Province of St Paul, Thailand - Fr John Lissandrin
and Br Thanad Anan
Province of Mary Help of Christians China: Fr Savio
Hon
Province of St Philip New Rochelle: Fr Dominic Tran
(mentioning him because he originates from our region).
Province of St Francis Xavier Japan: Fr Shinjiro
Urata
Province of Mary Help of Christians Australia: Fr
Ian Murdoch, Fr Peter Rankin, Fr Mosese Vitolio Tui
Province of Mary Help of Christians Cebu: Fr Fidel
Orendain
Just mentioning people from EAO region - there were
others present of course.
DOCX files. Here is a tip, since some
people already have Windows Vista and Word 7 at work. If so you
will have realised that the native storage format for Word files is
.docx extension instead of .doc. This is one of Microsoft's
better decisions (you'll benefit from reading Digital Virtues in that
case :-) because it means they have 'seen the light' and realised they
have to create an open document format. Pity they didn't adopt the
OpenDocument format that led the way but that's another matter.
So actually you DO NOT have to go out and buy an updated Microsoft
Office and windows Vista in order to read a .docx file, but MS are not
about to tell you that! Instead, at least to know and be
able to read the contents of your file do the following:
(a) right click the file and change the extension from .docx to .zip -
in other words, make the file readable by your zip program.
(b) Open it in your zip program and you'll find ten or so files in
there, one of which is called contents.xml and that's the one you open
in NotePad or any text editor you like.
There is more you could do, but at the moment all
you want to do is to be able to read that file, right? Hope this
helps.
One final issue - BoscoWiki 'comment' section was
vandalised yesterday - nobody from our regular readership, and this
sort of thing occurs once or twice a year, from experience. It's
back again (the value of a Wiki), but even though I check it daily, if
someone picks up an interference, could they please let us know
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