Hi :) +1 I didn't know about the links and don't support the idea of using proprietary products if it's possible to avoid them. I agree it would be great to use .odt but that it is more realistic to use .doc. You can set the default format to .Doc and similar by clicking on Tools - Options - +Load/Save - General Then there are 2 drop-downs beside each other at the bottom. With "Document Type" set at "Text Document" roll the other one back-up one place to "Microsoft Word (97/2000/Xp)". For spreadsheets and presentations roll-back 2 places to avoid the "templates" options. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 13 August, 2011 2:34:53 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office On 08/12/2011 03:19 PM, NoOp wrote: ...
There are considerable issue with OOXML/MOX[1] files: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=docx Then again, Microsoft also has issues as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML <http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/open-a-word-2007-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-HA010044473.aspx>Your best bet is to ask users to use .doc rather than .docx (preferably .odt, but we all know that isn't realistic). [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_OOXML
Sorry, forgot to mention that there is a commercial package that does a very nice job with .docx. Even the export to .odt included the notes from the file that I tested: <http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=11942> http://www.softmaker.com/english/ofl_en.htm You can try a working linux demo for 30 days: http://www.softmaker.de/cgi-local/of10trial.py I just installed (deb version) and it does a pretty nice job. Looks quite like LO/OOo/StarOffice. Interesting that comes out of Germany - the home of StarOffice & they've been around for quite some time. Also interesting (albeit old - 2006) interview: <http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2006070509040463> Louis Suarrez-Potts. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted