Re: [libreoffice-users] [4.0/Win] Edit form?

Hi :)
+1
and a little applause.  

If only that was more acceptable.  We are getting there though.  People around me are becoming more 
aware of the geekish
File - Save As
but outsiders still have trouble with that sort of thing
Regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 17:02
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [4.0/Win] Edit form?
>
>
> At 07:28 07/08/2013 -0700, Gilles Noname wrote:
> > LibreOffice Write is unable to let me fill this form:
> > http://bagofiles.free.fr/Lost.in.Post.Declaration1.docx
> >
> > Apparently, it's filled with macros.  Does someone have an idea how 
> > to fill this?
>
> One solution: open it in Microsoft Word (apologies to those who see 
> these as dirty words!), save it as .doc instead of .docx, and open 
> that in LibreOffice (perhaps then saving that as .odt).  I'll send 
> you the result.  You may need to readjust the vertical spacing.
>
> While you are at it, you might want to explain to the originators:
> 1) they ought not to be requiring their customers to have particular 
> proprietary software available,
> 2) they could make life easier anyway by distributing as .doc instead 
> of .docx, and
> 3) being in Northern Ireland (part of the UK), they should be 
> providing documents in the international standard A4 format, not the 
> Letter format used by a very few non-standard countries.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
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