Re: [libreoffice-users] Comments removed when savin .docx

Hi :)
I think a few people would disagree!  MS's OOXML format is officially an "Open" format defined by 
an ISO standards.  Of course in practice these things are difficult to get exactly right so people 
have to keep buying the newer MS Office in order to use the newer set of quirks where things don't 
quite work as per the specs.  

Some people might be experiencing deja vu as this is allegedly roughly what happened with the Rtf 
format except that Rtf was never the main format used by MS and was only meant as a format to allow 
interoperability with non-MS programs.  It was only the default in Wordpad.
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Tue, 29/11/11, Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Comments removed when savin .docx
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Tuesday, 29 November, 2011, 15:07
> On 11/29/2011 02:24 AM, Advrk Aplmkt
> wrote:
> > Ok, thanks for the info. I will study the bug report
> to see if there's anything I need to add.
> > docx (and xlsx and pptx) support is so important!!
> Really hope full support will be implemented very soon.
> > Unfortunately I'm not a programmer, but please let me
> know if there's other ways for me to help with improving
> LibreOffice!
> There is a strong need for compatibility but the problem is
> that MSOX
> formats must be reversed engineered because they are
> proprietary
> formats. They happen to be similar to ODF formats but have
> several
> unique MS modifications. This causes problems for others,
> not just LO,
> to have absolute full compatibility with MSOX.
> > Stephan Zietsman <sziets@gmail.com>
> 於 2011/11/29 2:13 寫道：
> > > Advrk Aplmrkt wrote:
> > > > However, I notice that any comments I add to a
> .docx document via
> > > > LibreOffice Writer do not show up when opened
> in Micro$oft Word 2007,
> > > > 2010, or 2011!
> > > > Is this a known bug, or am I not doing it
> correctly?
> > > I believe this is a known bug
> > > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33463). 
> It seems that
> > > Libreoffice does not save comment when exporting
> (saving) to docx
> > > format (other formats seem OK).  As a
> workaround, you could consider
> > > saving to a different format, like odt.  Word
> 2007 and later supports
> > > odf version 1.1, as far as I know. 
> Alternatively, you could also use
> > > the legacy doc format, which is more supported
> than docx.
> > > > From the bug report, it seems that a fix will
> be coming for this bug,
> > > but I cannot say for sure.  If you have any
> valuable information to
> > > contribute to the bug report, feel free to post a
> comment.
> > > Regards
> > > Stephan
>
>
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> Jay Lozier
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>
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