Re: [libreoffice-users] doc-files

for me,no problem with doc but sometimes faced problem with docx.avoiding it
now

On 8 August 2011 19:32, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> Perhaps give them the link to download LibreOffice and let them know it
> reads a
> wider range of formats and is more compatible with a wider range of other
> programs.  Word 2010 is not always compatible with Word 2007 let alone Word
> 2003.
>
> Are you sure you are saving as Doc rather than DocX?  The DocX used by
> default
> in MS Office 2007 & 2010 is not able to be read on earlier versions of MS
> Office
> without installing extra an extra patch.  Do they have problems opening
> documents from anyone else or do they keep quiet about that?  Again it
> would be
> a good reason for upgrading to LibreOffice because it can read both.
>
>
> In LibreOffice or OpenOffice choose to "Save As" "Word (97/2000/XP)"
> (scroll
> back up the list 1 place) rather than the default Word format.  Or as
> Graham
> says use Rtf to avoid the whole issue.
>
>
> At work i set the older MS Office formats as the default by going to
> Tools - Options - Load/Save - General
> Then down at the bottom use the 2 drop-downs to set
> Text document = Microsoft Word (97/2000/XP)
> Spreadsheet = Microsoft Excel (97/2000/XP)
> Presentation = Microsoft Powerpoint (97/2000/XP)
> For the last 2 it's 2 back up the list as 1 back is a template which is
> well
> worth avoiding.
>
>
> On the same page about halfway up i tend to change "ODF format version"
> right
> back from "1.2 Extended (recommended)" to "1.0/1.1" because MS Office 2010
> &
> 2007 can just about read those.  I don't know why they haven't tried the
> newer
> spec, it's not exactly hidden or difficult or anything.  I think the 1.2
> was not
> around in 2007.  Further down in the Writer section - Compatibility i tick
> all
> the boxes just as the extra finesse.
>
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Graham Mullan <graham.mullan@coly.org.uk>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Sent: Mon, 8 August, 2011 14:12:08
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] doc-files
>
> On 08/08/2011 14:02, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I sometimes have to send files created under LO-Writer to people who use
> > M$-Word. I then store them in .doc-format for sending. From time to time
> > people tell me that they cannot open these files. Has anybody experienced
> > this problem?
> > Regards
> > H. S.
>
> This is likely to be a consequence of the particular version of Word that
> your
> correspondents are using. A simple answer would be to save the documents in
> .rtf
> format instead.
>
> Graham
>
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