Re: [libreoffice-users] doc-files

Make sure you save the file as "Microsoft Word Win 97/2000/XP .doc 
format".  That way you get one that should work fine.  That is the one I 
use when I have to send a Word document to people.  I never had any 
problems with it.

As other will tell you, stay clear of .docx" format.  Any of the formats 
that show the "x" as the forth character are to be avoided.  Sometimes, 
as I have been told by Word users, if you save a document with the 
latest Word format of .docx using Word 2010, it may not be read properly 
with Word 2007 or Word 2003 with the format extension/filter MS created 
for Office 2003 to read 2007 formats.  So if MS cannot get their act 
together to allow their own products to read files saved by their own 
products, what hope will third-party packages have to be able to 
read/write those formats 100% of the time.

So stick with .doc, and the other per Office 2007 formats.

Also, send them the link for LibreOffice, if it is appropriate to do 
so.  let them know that it uses as their default formats, the 
International Standard formats for Office packages - ODF, while MSO's 
formats are not.  Let them know that the software is free.  Many people 
I have told did not believe it was free, until I stated that fact 
several times, and some it took a printout of the page stating it was 
free AND handing the a DVD with the package in it.

On 08/08/2011 10:46 AM, soumalya ray wrote:
> 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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