Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Should LibreOffice even support Microsoft secret formats?

      For me, the answer is NOT obvious, because of (a) the occasional 
incompatibilities and (b) the things that are easier in MS Office than 
LibreOffice.  I've had problems with LibreOffice where I save something 
in *.doc format or *.ppt and reopen it, and it's different.  Also, I've 
been using Open Office / LibreOffice regularly for 1.5 years now, and I 
still cannot find how to control bullets and numbering as easily as I 
could with MS Office.  For any document I have to send to a collaborator 
who uses MS Office, I need to keep it primarily in the MS format to 
increase the chances that I will at least know what is being changed 
without warning!


      For example, in LibreOffice 3.4.3 Impress, create a dashed line 
and save it in MS PowerPoint 97 format.  Close then reopen it.  When I 
did that just now under Windows 7 x64, the line style was lost and it 
displayed solid.  If I do NOT have to share it with an MS Office user, 
then I keep it in Open Office format.  Otherwise, I must convert at some 
point to MS format, and I should do that regularly at least until I 
identify at least one incompatibility problem.


      Best Wishes,
      Spencer


On 9/11/2011 7:54 AM, Tinkerer wrote:
> The answer is obvious. Save in odf and get used to using odf.
> When there is a requirement to use an MS suffix,use Save As to do a copy in
> doc or docx, but keep your copy in odf.
>
> Tink.
>
> --
> View this message in context: 
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Should-LibreOffice-even-support-Microsoft-secret-formats-tp3325743p3326996.html
> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.


--
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