Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer: Page Number/Page Count problem.

I don't really care about the extension but *many* people use docx.
It's not something specific to me.
Thank you for your advice but you get funny when you say "It's coming, 
sooner than you might think."
I like LO, I appreciate the developers and I'm so willing to install LO 
everywhere I can and I'm fighting in my company with people but i'm 
nearly alone with this here.
There are 200 pc users, I can't control who receive what document in 
which format.
But I know they want it working good, they want it to be compatible with 
doc and docx format and they don't want to face bugs like I told yesterday.
When anything goes wrong, they want to give up, they want to go back to mso.

The documents I talk about is being used in contracts with pfizer , 
novartis, etc which are imporant documents here.
LO have "office" in it's name, so I can presume it's targeted for  the 
office use.
If you have success over convincing people to use an office application 
which can't do page numbering while they need it, I wan't to know how 
you manage it.
Users here really don't want to spend time with bugs or any conversions 
and memorize every workaround for every situation.
And most of the problems I face here is about compatibility.
This is nothing personal, nothing emotional and I am sure there are many 
other companies in a similar profile.
If you think docx can be avoided and it's unnecessary, propose dropping 
it from the distro.
But I wish it can do page numbering instead.






On 08.03.2011 04:27, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Arda Tunccekic<arda@duzen.com.tr>  wrote:
> > If the "x format" is the default format in the leading&mainstream office
> > product, you can't escape from it unfortunately.
> Sure you can, especially when the "leading [for $]&  mainstream"
> office product supports both formats: just change your default format
> to .doc (.xls, etc) and your output documents will be 100% compatible
> with the .???x formats (if you're using MSO), or 95+% compatible if
> you're using OO or LO.
>
> > It is useful for me because the documents are smaller in size.
> Better to use .odf formats for this, and they work even in MSO 2007+.
>
> > I know it's so much pain for the development team but LO should be
> > compatible in every possible way.
> They are and do, but there are limits when you don't have the
> resources of a market giant with monopoly power (so far) and a
> proprietary format that no one likes.
>
> > If someday LO market takes over, LO can set the rules.
> It's coming, sooner than you might think.

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