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.

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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.

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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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