Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting problem with table in libreoffice writer

Hi :)
People get attachments if they are CC'd directly or included in the "To" field 
in the email.  No attachments get through from the list.  You didn't do anything 
wrong.
Regards from
Tom :)




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From: soumalya ray <drsoumalya@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 21 July, 2011 17:39:29
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting problem with table in libreoffice 
writer

hay tom,other people is able to attach file in  the mailing list;but my
attached file was not visible.what mistake have i committed?

On 20 July 2011 23:37, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org> wrote:

> I read and write OOXML files in Office 2003 all the time, and have since
> the compatibility pack was released.  I still use that for testing purposes
> (and testing of the open-source ODF converter that works with Office 2003
> also).  I've not stumbled on any material compatibility issues except when
> Office 2003 simply can't handle an up-level feature (such as expanded
> change-tracking capability), and then the degradation tends to be
> non-catastrophic.
>
> I shall bite my tongue about the rest of your unsupported statements, but
> for two.  (1) ODF 1.2 was not available as a stable Committee Specification
> (still not yet an OASIS standard, but soon) until March 2011.  Office 2007
> SP1 came out when?  How do you consider the "newer-spec" being any of the
> things you say, and how could that have mattered for Office 2007?  (2) The
> OOXML formats are described in ISO/IEC Standard IS 29500:2008, the downloads
> are free from ISO (if you know where to look) and the ECMA equivalents are
> also free for download.  What's secret about that?
>
> ODF 1.0 is also the current level of the ISO Standard, which is specified
> in many international contexts.  I recall Microsoft saying they would be ODF
> 1.1 compatible (since the deviations from ODF 1.0 are minor and the
> incorporation of accessibility support in 1.1 is important) even though it
> hadn't achieved international-standard status.
>
> Also, it is important to understand that ODF 1.x compatibility and
> compatibility with OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice are different things.
>
> I am willing to overlook your various opinions about Microsoft products,
> but these kinds of unsupported material claims deserve public fact-checking.
>
>  - Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 01:30
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting problem with table in
> libreoffice writer
>
> Hi :)
> Attachments get removed before the email gets to the list.  Can you upload
> the
> files somewhere and then give us a link?  Alternatively you could use my
> private
> email address (use copy&paste rather than just "Reply to") to send the
> attachments to although i only have a limited idea of what might have
> happened.
>
>
> The Doc format is much better than the DocX for sharing with other people.
>  Even
> DocX files made in MS Office 2007 tend to go a bit wrong when viewed with
> MS
> Office 2010 and similarly the other way around.  Of course any MS Office
> before
> their 2007 can't read DocX at all.
>
>
> MS Office 2007 was the first MS Office to be able to read OdT format but
> they
> use the old spec despite the newer spec being easier to find out about and
> implement.  The DocX spec is very secretive and even MS don't implement it
> properly.  So, it's better to use the older Doc format so that almost
> anyone can
> open the document.
>
>
> To increase compatibility with MS Office go up to the "Tools" menu and then
> right down to "Options" at the bottom.  The pop-up contains many useful
> settings
> and is well worth having a look at but for now just click on the + beside
> "Load/Save, then click on "General".  Somewhere in the middle is "ODF
> Format
> Version".  Change the drop-down beside that from "1.2 Extended
> (recommended)" to
> "1.0/1.1".  Files saved in that format should be easily opened in MS Office
> just
> by double-clicking on them.  If you look just under there you can change
> the
> "Text Document" format to "Microsoft Word (98/2000/Xp)".  Similarly for
> Spreadsheets and presentations although for those 2 you need to scroll back
> up
> the list 2 places instead of just 1 otherwise documents get saved as
> templates
> which gets really messy.
>
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: soumalya ray <drsoumalya@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Wed, 20 July, 2011 8:44:05
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] formatting problem with table in libreoffice
> writer
>
> hi,
> just started using libreoffice in ubuntu lucid,version is 3.3.2.
> i tried to insert a table & wrote something in it.saved it as .docx and
> closed libreoffice.then again opened the document using libreoffice
> itself.the last column of the table is going outside the page boundary.this
> made the last column invisible for all practical purposes.
> i would like to know the mistake i am doing and how to solve it.
> i am attaching 3 files here--
> .odt-what i have written
> .doc-what i am expecting
> .docx-what i am getting
> please help me and thanks in advance
>
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