Re: Microsoft .TLA and .TLAx Extensions (was RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?)

On 06/03/2012 06:37 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> The speculative responses to this suggestion are very amusing.
>
> I tried it.  After all, computing is an empirical science [;<).
>
> Here is what happened when I renamed a .xls to .xlsx:
>
>   "Excel [2010] cannot open the file '<longname>.xlsx' 
>   because the file format or file extension is not valid.  
>   Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the 
>   file extension matches the format of the file."
>
> LibreOffice 3.3.2 Calc was perfectly happy to open the file correctly as the .xls that it 
> actually is.
>
> I renamed a .doc to .docx and got this message from Word 2010:
>
>   "Word cannot open the file because the file format does not
>    match the file extension.  (\\Whs\...Spec9-copy.docx)"
>
> LibreOffice 3.3.2 Writer was also successful in importing the file without complaint.
>
> I leave renaming .ppt to .pptx as an exercise.
>
>  - Dennis
>
>  
Interesting, Excel and Word get confused by the change but Writer and
Calc do not. I do not advocate changing file extensions. I would have
thought the opposite would occur, MSO no problem and LO confused.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Säger [mailto:villeroy@t-online.de] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 13:04
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users?
>
> Am 03.06.2012 20:14, Felmon Davis wrote:
> > I am curious: what happens if one just changes the file extension from
> > .doc to .docx?
> >
> > F.
> Brilliant idea! This way you get much better results while the WinWord 
> user will not notice any difference at all.


-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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