Re: [libreoffice-users] doc-files

Sorry guys, but I was talking about Calc/Excel spreadsheets, not Word 
text documents.
-Aarni-

On 08.08.2011 20:15, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> 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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