Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre crashed, my document ruined...

Hi :)
There seemed to be other problems with the machine so i'm not certain whether it was LibreOffice or 
a crash or something else that caused the problems.  Generally it seems best to save the main copy 
of documents as OpenDocument Formats such as Odt (for Writer).  Do 
File - "Save As ..." - "Word (97/2000/Xp)"
only when you think you are ready to (or need to) share with people that don't have LO yet.  

A surprising number of people have LO or OpenOffice alongside MS Office now and the numbers seem to 
be rising.  People are sometimes willing to experiment once they realise they can dabble with it 
and keep MS Office for their "serious" work.  Of course some people have no authority to install 
anything onto their own machines and have no power to change that.  

Doc is a fairly vulnerable format and breaks fairly easily but it does have the advantage of being 
reasonably easy for most programs to read.  

If the back-up file works then i recommend saving that as Odt where-ever you were saving the broken 
document and then save as a Doc so that you can share it easily.  

Errrr, since your machine was out of your hands for a while it might be worth updating the 
anti-virus and doing a full scan fairly soon.  Other maintenance such as a  defrag might be a good 
plan if you can find the time to let it get on with that.  Avg antivirus and others do a free 
edition that might be useful.  At the moment i quite enjoy Avg but that is just because it's the 
one they already have at work.  I have not looked into which is best.
Congrats and regards from
Tom :)

--- On Tue, 8/11/11, PainC <carel@live.se> wrote:

From: PainC <carel@live.se>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre crashed, my document ruined...
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Tuesday, 8 November, 2011, 21:24

Yes I´ve checked the backup folder and it was there, but as you said it would
be strange if Office saved defect files.
So I guess I have rewrite it all then?
thanks for the help :D

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