OS X Leopard TextEdit to support Office 2007?
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Is this true? Will the TextEdit application included with OS X Leopard support Office 2007 documents? That’s what the above screenshot is boasting. Credit to Mark for sending the link to the full size image. Does anyone with the latest seed of Leopard care to comment? The font looks a little questionable in the screenshot. But maybe my eyes are just playing tricks on me.
UPDATE: Huge shout out to Dustin H. who took the screenshot. Thanks Dustin!
I can confirm this is real. It’s been in since the very first Leopard seed (at WWDC).
Last I checked the only new supported filetype was OpenDocument as far as I could see, although, this was back on the WWDC build which has now unfortunately broken for me.
features “a office”, hehe
Seems fake to me, the fontsize is smaller than the rest… obvious cut-paste mock-up
Regarding the font sizes… they’re all the same size except for the “Microsoft Word 97″ line, which appears to be one pixel shorter. This MIGHT be a side-effect of the anti-aliasing.
Try it yourself. Cut one of the ‘o’s out, paste it back with half-transparency and move it around the image to compare with the other ‘o’s.
Interesting!
I guess we will soon find out.
Hey, I can confirm it’s legit too. Get Info even says its extension is docx.
It’s real, mine does it too. :)
if this is real … its really good news …
thanks …
I can confirm it as well. I’ve never noticed it before… and both the Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Word 2007 Beta 2 selections save out as .docx
This is from the original WWDC release of leopard too.
More recent releases have simplified the menu somewhat, but the support is still there.
It’s very easy to support the new MS Word XML files. There a lot of web pages that convert your .docx file to text with simple php script, so yes probably it’s true.
That’s awesome. I can think of a bunch of ways that’ll be really convenient.
Huge shout out to Dustin H. who took the screenshot. Thanks Dylan!
who is this dylan guy? lol
I can also confirm that Leopard’s TextEdit does indeed have these new compatibility features. I have only have tested OpenDocument so far (I’m not the developer/not my machine, and didn’t have any docx files to test with at the time). TextEdit Preferences, also lists a “grammar checker” if I recall correctly, but didn’t seem to be working.
Apple is looking out for its customers i guess, i would prefer an apple made app, kind of like office for mac but with apple twist, because so MS wont milk mac users.
Thanks for sharing