On 11/27/2011 09:32 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
John On 11/27/2011 01:15 PM, John D. Herron wrote:I try to double save important files with my working copy being ODF and when necessary in MSO.hi. i'm working on a standalone ubuntu 11.04 box (no Windows on it!) with LibreOffice 3.3.4 OOO330m19 (Build:401).Last week I sent a client a .doc file, which he reviewed (Edit -> Show) andthen returned to me for further comments. I in turn added comments andcorrections to it in the same fashion, even changing some of his own entries. When I had finished I saved it outright (i.e. not Save as....) and closed it so Icould e-mail it. On second thought I realized I needed to add one more comment, but when I reopened the document i discovered that it hadbeen saved as *.docx*... (that is how he had sent his original to me, as Irealized too late...).Attempts to reopen the document in libreoffice proved futile: all i got to see was a fully readable first page (where no corrections had been made), followedby some numbering and bullets with no visible text. I then tried to re-save it as .odt or standard .doc, but no joy.As I unzipped the document and looked into it I saw that distinct parts of the document had been stored in separate 'compartments'. In a subsection named 'document.xml' i found the full text (complete with corrections and comments)listed in something akin to 'web-script' format.I did return the reviewed document to my client as is (since he is working with a recent version of MSWord); he will need to use it immediately whenhe receives it. My questions are- is he likely to be able to properly open and view the document as i returnedit to him? and if not - is there some way for me to recover or repair it? On _imagebin.org_ I have (as 'johnherron') posted the 'segments' of the document (11082_bb_Memo_inRe_... .docx) as shown by Nautilus.I'm very new at this, so i'd appreciate whatever help you may be able to providein plain, easy-to-understand language. Thanks even now. john **You can try adding this ppa for Libroffice and upgrade to 3.4.4: note I have listed the commands needed to install the ppa using Terminal. This is simpler IMHO than having side-by-side installs of two LO versions.sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libroffice/ppa sudo apt-get updateI would run Update Manager or Synaptic and either should find the new versions.My experience is that 3.3.X is not as good as 3.4.X in handling msox formats. When I had a similar problem with 3.3.2/3 I found that Word 2010 had no problem with opening the file nor did anyone who received it. No one commented on any file corruption.Looking at your image, it looks like all the information is there so your customer should not even noticed that you had a problem.
Hello, Jay.i followed your instructions and upgraded LibreOffice to v. LibreOffice 3.4.3 OOO340m1 (Build:302), first adding the ppa:libreoffice/ppa repository and then
having synaptic do the upgrade. The operation seems to have been successful on the whole; but attempting to open the .docx document in the new writer version still fails miserably.I can only hope that the client will be able to open it cleanly in whatever version of
Word he is using.Thanks for the help and reassurance. Guess i'll just need to keep my eyes doubly focused when I open Word files from clients or other people, and ask them to re-save any .docx files as
.doc before mailing them to me. jdh -- 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