Office 2007 has implemented a new format for saving it's documents. Essential it breaks down the whole document into XML and then zips it, this results in a smaller file. The following will allow Open Office.org on Kubuntu 7.10 open a .docx document natively.
I followed the steps exactly and tidied up the layout.
1- First you need to have ‘alien’ installed, an rpm to deb converter.
2 - Grab yourself the Odf converter RPM, from http://download.novell.com/sendredir...ror=AkamaiHost
3 - Now lets convert it like this:
You will end up with a .tgz file.
4 - Extract it to a directory:
5 - Now its time to copy a few files to allow us to open up our .docx file.
Now just right click on the file that you want to open, select open with and then open office writer, the document will load and you will be able to make changes to the document. I am unsure whether or not it will save a .docx, but i'm betting it can't, who would want to use that format anyway. 
Enjoy
I followed the steps exactly and tidied up the layout.
1- First you need to have ‘alien’ installed, an rpm to deb converter.
Code:
sudo apt-get install -y alien
3 - Now lets convert it like this:
Code:
alien -ct odf-converter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm
4 - Extract it to a directory:
Code:
tar -zxvf odf-converter-1.0.0.tgz
Code:
sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/OdfConverter /usr/lib/openoffice/program/
Code:
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/
Code:
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/
Enjoy
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