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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