Re: [libreoffice-users] Does LO Writer converts (internally) any format other than .odt to .odt when it wants to open such files?

I would save the .doc file as .odt first and then edit that .odt file.  
If I needed to save it back to a .doc file then I would save it as the 
following:

document.doc
---save as
document.odt
---edit and save as
document-edited-v1.odt
---and then save as
document-edited-v1.doc

That way I save the original file[s] and keep track of the major edited 
versions.  I do this with documents, with graphic files, and many other 
files that need editing and may need to back track to a previous version 
to redo something, specially .png and .jpg files.

It may take a little more effort, and drive space, to keep original 
version and edits saved at various points, but if you need to go back to 
a version 3 days ago, for whatever reason, it would be easier to just 
open that file than recreate the file to that point in the edit cycle.

Also, keeps a backup just in case the worse thing happens and the file 
you are working on crashes so bad it cannot be recovered.  I have had 
many of those over the past 30+ years as a programmer and later in my 
own graphics and writing works.

On 08/06/2013 04:06 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Yes, when you are working on a document Writer treats it as a Odt.
>
> That is 1 reason why people recommend keeping "an original" in Odt and then only export to Doc or 
> other formats when you need to share the document with other people on systems that don't have any of the 
> non-MS Office Suites or programs.
>
> Other programs behave the same way.  When you save in a non-native format it does a translation 
> into that format.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > ________________________________
> > From: Sina Momken <digitsm@gmail.com>
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, 6 August 2013, 20:55
> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Does LO Writer converts (internally) any format other than .odt to 
> > .odt when it wants to open such files?
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > As I've described my story before I've already written many parts of my
> > thesis with LO Writer and now I'm finalizing it using LO Writer. However
> > because the original format of my University template was in .doc format
> > I've already saved my current work as a .doc file. I did this for the
> > compatibility with MS Word in mind, but as my work expanded I found some
> > incompatibilities between LO Writer and MS Word especially in their
> > Numbering system and so I shifted to LO Writer system completely, but I
> > still save my work in .doc format.
> >
> > However during my work with .doc format I found out that after closing
> > and reopening the file, some very minor things don't save correctly and
> > each time I have to fix them manually.
> > Additionally, I noticed that when I save my work in a .doc file it shows
> > "Exporting document..." in status-bar and when I open the same .doc file
> > it shows "Importing document..." message. These import and export
> > messages bring the idea in mind that LO Writer internally converts any
> > format to .odt format when it wants to open them and vice versa during save.
> >
> > Now I want to know that whether this is true? I mean does LO Writer
> > converts files to .odt when it tries to open them or it can directly
> > work with formats other than .odt like .doc and .docx?


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