[libreoffice-users] Re: HOWTO change all-user default file formats (Windows), for LOo3.5?

Am 11.05.2012 10:47, ultraxlnt-domai20044888@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.  I probably wasn't clear enough about the goal being that any users 
> added to the machines (post facto) would get MS
> default formats without doing (knowing how to do) anything.  (I was recently excoriated by a client 
> who had difficulty because her customers couldn't open the .odt's LOo gave her....)
>
> Thanks again,
> ultra

It is somewhere in the options but you must not do that. Always edit 
your documents in the native ODF format (odt, ods, odp etc) in order to 
get most of the software and the best conversion results.
Then you call menu:File>Send>"Document As PDF" and everybody will be 
able to read an exact virtual print of your document since everybody has 
some PDF reading software on any computer platform.

*If and only if* you need to co-edit some document with users of 
Microsoft Office you call menu:File>Send>"Document AS MS ..." which 
keeps your ODF document while attaching a MS version to an email.
Next time you get mailed the next version of some MS file open that file 
and save your copy in native ODF in your own working directory.
In this scenario you have to strictly avoid the new OOXML document 
formats (docx, xlsx and pptx). LibreOffice stores well formed documents 
in the older doc/xls/ppt formats while these formats are fully supported 
by MS office. The conversion to doc/xls/ppt works best when it is done 
in one go. Working in foreign file formats (saving as doc every few 
minutes) may cumulate conversion flaws.

Hope this helps.


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