Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer 3.4.0 --- basic .doc/.odt files not understood properly by MS Office 2010

Good work and interesting :)  You can change which ODF Format Version 
LibreOffice uses by going to the "Tools" menu 

Tools - Options - "Load/Save" - General - "ODF Format Version"
and change the drop-down from 1.2 Extended to 1.0/1.1.

Thanks Dennis, regards all from
Tom :)




----- Original Message ----
> From: Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>
> To: users@libreoffice.org
> Sent: Sat, 4 June, 2011 21:35:24
> Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer 3.4.0 --- basic .doc/.odt files not 
> understood properly by MS Office 2010
>
> I've looked into this.
>
> FOR THE ODT FILES ONLY:
>
> The problem is that  Microsoft supports ODF 1.1.  The later versions of LO (and 
> OO.o) anticipate  ODF 1.2 and by default use ODF 1.2-only features of the 
> manifest in the ODT  package.   The Microsoft ODF 1.1 implementations do not 
> recognize those  features and considers there to be something wrong.  If you let 
> Word  "attempt to correct" the document it will, and it will be fine.  (The only  
> way it would not be fine is if the document was encrypted using something other  
> than the default encryption that exists for ODF 1.1.  But Office won't  accept 
> any kind of encrypted ODF document, so the ODF 1.2 differences don't  matter.)
>
> Then you have the reverse problem.  If you save from Word  as an ODT and take 
> it back to one of these recent LO (and OO.o) versions, they  will sometimes 
> report that the ODF 1.1 that Office produced is corrupt.   (This appears to be 
> related to their being some files in the package, such as  for images, that are 
> not in the manifest.)  If you let the LO (and OO.o)  product "attempt to 
> correct" it will and everything should work fine.
>
> The  problem is that the corruption message is heavy-handed and there are 
> different  ways where the down-level 1.1 and up-level 1.2-ready products are 
> unforgiving,  even though it is something that they can fix.  Also, if there 
> really is a  document corruption, as opposed to one of those correctable 
> matters, we can't  tell.
>
> FOR THE DOC FILES:
>
> I have not encountered or explored  that.
>
>  - Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: At0mic  [mailto:atomicbutterfly83@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 07:19
> To: users@libreoffice.org
> Subject:  [libreoffice-users] LO Writer 3.4.0 --- basic .doc/.odt files not 
> understood  properly by MS Office 2010
>
> LibreOffice Writer 3.4.0 running under Windows  7 64-bit.
>
> Problem 1 reproduction -
> * Start Writer
> * Create a  document and type in a few words, nothing special or extravagant
> * Save as an  .odt file
> * Load into MS Office 2010
>
> Error message:
> The file  <filename> cannot be opened because there are problems with the  
> contents.
>
> Details
> The file is corrupt and cannot be  opened.
>
> Clicking OK asks if you want to recover the contents of the  document. The 
> recovered document is correct and  uncorrupted.
>
> -----
>
> Problem 2 reproduction -
> * Start Writer
> *  Create another document and type in a few words
> * Save as a .doc file  (97/2000/XP)
> * Load into MS Office 2010
>
> Red toolbar  message:
> Protected view - Office has detected a problem with this file.  Editing it may 
> harm your computer. Click here for details.
>
> It is then  possible to click "Edit anyway" and get on with things. The loaded 
> file is  correct and uncorrupted.
>
> ---
>
> In the past I've never had problems  with basic files working between both word 
> processors, but something has  happened which is causing Office 2010 to dislike 
> both the .doc and .odt versions  of the files LO is saving. This is not a good 
> thing. I'll refrain from calling  it a bug in case there's an option within LO 
> which can save the files in such a  way as to pacify Office 2010. Otherwise I 
> can't trust it to be usable in a mixed  environment.
>
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