Filed under: Business, Windows, Macintosh, Office, Productivity, Web services, Freeware
by Jason Clarke Sep 24th 2008 at 11:00AM
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
cheb said 11:16AM on 9-24-2008
why not download and install the microsoft office combatability pack?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9a1822c5-49c6-47bd-8bec-0d68693ca564&DisplayLang=en
this is free and allows users of older office suites to open, edit and save the new .docx format.
this is for word, excel and powerpoint
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RT21 said 7:24PM on 10-14-2008
does this work for Mac OS X
NomBomB said 11:30AM on 9-24-2008
kudos cheb. did the same thing for an enduser yesterday... quick, easy, works like a charm.
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Matt S. said 11:30AM on 9-24-2008
Or you could install the plugin for 2003 that allows opening and saving of docx..
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YpoCaramel said 4:25PM on 9-24-2008
Depends if your IT Department lets you install it. They should have installed it by now, but the world is inefficient.
Hayden said 2:50PM on 12-09-2008
What is the plug in and where is it found
aaron said 11:31AM on 9-24-2008
While I applaud the intent of empowering users, I question the thinking that sending potentially private company data through an unknown third-party conversion process. Who knows what their retention policy is and what they really do with it?
I second the motion for the Microsoft Office Compatability Pack.
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Matt S. said 11:31AM on 9-24-2008
I should of read the comments before I posted..lol sorry..
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James said 11:36AM on 9-24-2008
So you'd rather have some heavyweight, obscured, closed-off format that people have been hating on for years than an open standard that's basically a zip file full of validated, universally-readable XML?
You fail at the Internet, dude.
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harry said 12:00PM on 9-24-2008
Or you could just use Open Office. I had a client come into work the other day with a .docx format and I was able to open it just fine. Then again, it was version 3, which i believe is in beta.
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iampriteshdesai said 12:17PM on 9-24-2008
Oh come on Jason!!!
This is an wayyyyyyyyy old story. Every major blog and countless small ones have covered up this topic well in advance (last year) and even provided alternative ways.
ZAMZAR suycks thanks to the long conversion times.
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Jim said 12:24PM on 9-24-2008
Yeah, this post is stupid. Just install the compatibility pack... problem solved!
Oh - and .DOCX rocks!
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LinearMode said 1:00PM on 9-24-2008
nice, considering i know people who still have older version of word and etc.
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am said 3:37PM on 9-24-2008
Zamzar has saved me in this regard multiple times. As far as I know, there's no compatibility plug-in for Macs, and frankly I'm interested in becoming less reliant on MS, not more. When someone sends me a .docx file, I reply with a request for that file in a more open, compatible format and send it to Zamzar at the same time.
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Michael K Pate said 3:05PM on 9-24-2008
I just a couple of hours updating Office 2000 with all the updates necessary to try out the Compatibility Pack only to be informed that no products could be found that would work with it. Zamzar may be slow, but at least it works.
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cheb said 3:29PM on 9-24-2008
I use office 2000 and work and the office compatability pack installs fine.
So I wouldn't give up hope just yet!
The_Steven said 3:48PM on 9-24-2008
I'll just stick with OpenOffice thank you.
Ok, so I can only read and write in about 95% of the available formats.
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William said 4:18PM on 9-24-2008
I think it'd be much simpler to just install the Microsoft software that will open the new formats in older versions of Office, as has been previously mentioned.
For the OS X: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx?pid=Mactopia_AddTools&fid=6B9238E1-CF69-48C4-BF2D-C4A8ACEEE520#viewer
For the Windows: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en
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William said 4:18PM on 9-24-2008
Oops, it should read "For OS X" and "For Windows" instead of "For the OS X" and "For the Windows". Sorry about that.
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William said 4:19PM on 9-24-2008
I think it'd be much simpler to just install the Microsoft software that will open the new formats in older versions of Office, as has been previously mentioned.
For OS X: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx?pid=Mactopia_AddTools&fid=6B9238E1-CF69-48C4-BF2D-C4A8ACEEE520#viewer
For Windows: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en
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