Re: [libreoffice-users] How to edit MS doc(x) files without breaking it for MS?

I would save the edited document in the Word .doc format listed for - 
97/2000/XP/2003.  Then almost all the Word packages out there will work 
with it properly.  Well if you use Word 95 and earlier, it will not but 
how many are still using that one?  The last user I knew upgraded to 
2003 last year.

I have a lady that sends MSO 2010 .docx files to everyone.  All of the 
New York State agency people I know cannot use that version of file, 
since they do not have it in their budgets to go beyond either MSO 2003 
or 2007, depending on the agency.  I keep telling her to send the files 
as PDFs, since she can easily do that, plus the files that are sent are 
not to be edited by the receivers. PDFs would be much better since it 
should embed the fonts she uses, and she uses a lot that the others do not.

So, just use the "standard" .doc format and leave the OOXML ones alone.


On 11/19/2012 02:49 PM, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> enemy troep schrieb:
> > Hello!
> >
> > A girlfriend of mine was tired of windows and installed the latest Linux
> > Mint on her netbook, which comes with libre office.
> > Although Libre is working generally well, she noticed a problem when
> > working with Docx and Doc.
> > If the original file is made in LO, both LO and MS office can change it
> > without problems.
> > If the original file is made in MS office, then changed in LO, then MS
> > office can no longer read it.
>
> If you have an older MS office, than you should use doc-format. The 
> export of docx has some bugs. If you can use a MS office 2013, than 
> you can use odt-format.
>
> Which MS Office is used? Can you provide such documents which are OK 
> in LibreOffice but do not open in MS Office?
>
> > After googling, it seems to be a bug in the later versions of LO / Open
> > office.
> > We tried to locate a debian based LO of version 3.4 or earlier, but 
> > without
> > success.
>
> For older versions portable versions are useful, because they need no 
> installation. This might help too, if the PCs at school have only MS 
> Office installed.
>
> > All links are either dead, or link to the latest version.
> > Coincidentally, we fail to install Open Office (in the hope their 
> > product
> > does not have this problem)
> > even after following multiple tutorials to remove LO first before
> > installing OO.
>
> You can ask on http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/
>
> > Obviously, not being able to interact with documents from MS office 
> > is not
> > an option when the
> > netbook is to be used at school. If we can't solve this, she will 
> > have to
> > return to Windows just for the
> > sake of being able to share documents with other (non-technical) 
> > students.
> >
> > How can we solve this?
>
> Keep it simple. Do not use nested tables and frames. This is 
> especially important in MS Word. People tend to put everything into 
> tables and frames, because they do not know how to indent paragraphs 
> or how to use tabulators in Word.
> Do not use the new kind of formula editor of Word, more details if 
> needed.
>
> Please provide documents which convert bad. Those are needed to 
> increase interoperability.
>
> Kind regards
> Regina


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