[libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

On 08/12/2011 07:03 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:

> -----Original Message----- From: NoOp [mailto:<snipped>] 
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 17:23 To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word .docx formatting in Libre
> Office
>
> [ ... ]
>
> Open LO. Make a simple text box with some text in it. Save as an
> .docx & let us know how that works out for you.

> I'm not so sure the bug report being discussed is anything so simple,
> but I took on your little experiment.
>
>
> CONCLUSION
>
> It would seem, in this simple case, that no one has much to be proud
> of concerning interop between the different native formats.  It is
> odd that the worst case here is the DOCX output from LibreOffice read
> back into LibreOffice.  But Word 2010 doesn't round-trip to and from
> ODT a lot better (although it is a lot easier to adjust manually if
> desired).
>
> To get this right, there needs to be a more-systematic effort that
> determines what discretionary provisions are being handled
> differently and what other features at the format level would be more
> successful.
>
>
> DETAILS
>
> I started in LO 3.3.2 Writer by inserting a frame around a paragraph
> of text, then saving it as a Microsoft Office Word 2007 DOCX format.

"Text Box":
View|Toolbars|Drawing
Click on the 'T'|write something|exit the textbox
etc.


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