Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem reading Word 2003 document

Hi :)
I find that opening Doc files in LO to edit or convert to Pdf is not always ideal.  For my 
companies Newsletter i was eventually forced to create a fresh Newsletter in Odt using roughly the 
same ideas for layouts that had been in previous newsletters.  It made a huge positive difference 
to productivity.  Much easier to place images exaclty in the right places.  The tons of logos at 
the bottom don't overlap or leave odd uneven spacing anymore.  

That gave me more time to play around with other features so now all those logos are clickable and 
the newsletter has a Table-of-Contents that people can click to get to the right places.  Also i 
modified the styles so now when  someone gives me an article i paste in as unformatted text and 
then apply styles, and then proof-read.  In Word i often had to spend hours un-stuffing-up people's 
formatting.  

When i am ready to share it with others i use LO to "Save As ..." Doc and everyone on any version 
of MS Office finds it looks the same to them so we don't suffer from the problem of half the office 
using MSO 2007 and the others using 2010.  Unfortunately MSO can't handle images so well so 
sometimes the images wander off but at least they do it consistently for all versions of MSO.  I 
ended up installing LO on everyone's machines (and a couple of fonts) so they can all see the 
newsletter as it should be now.  

I guess i don't alwys need to Pdf it so that everyone sees it the same now but i still do because 
it's easy and uncompressed Pdf prints nicely.

Regards from
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Chris Carlson <cwcarlsonc@cox.net>
> To: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 November 2012, 6:14
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Problem reading Word 2003 document
>
> I'm new to this e-mail list, so excuse me if this is something discussed already.
>
> I've been very pleased with LibreOffice on many fronts.  I recommend it to everyone.  As a matter 
> of fact, I use it instead of Word at every opportunity.  At work, though, I use Word because 
> that's what's installed.
>
> I write a newsletter for the American Legion.  Since it was developed in Word, I use my old 
> student copy of Word 2003 to create it each month.  I have to provide both a .doc and .pdf of the 
> newsletter to the printers.  My trick, since Word 2003 doesn't offer a .pdf output, is to read the 
> .doc with LibreOffice (3.5) and publish it to .pdf.
>
> For the first time in months, LibreOffice can't seem to recognize the .doc format.  I'm using the 
> same version of Word that I've used for months.  The newsletter is basically the same file, which 
> I copy and modify for the new month.  For whatever reason, LibreOffice tries to open it as a text 
> file.  It initially asks what text encoding it should use, waits for a long time, and then opens a 
> garbage document.
>
> Is this a known problem?  Did I do something to the document that caused it to be read incorrectly?
>
> Thanks for any ideas on this.
>
> Chris
>
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