Re: [libreoffice-users] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in .doc

Whew!  That eases my mind.
The only problem is that when MSO no longer supports .doc format as an 
option, then MSO users will no longer have that interchange standard 
format and we will be at the mercy of whatever proprietary format M$ 
chooses - again.  I am sure that is by design.
Thanks.
Girvin Herr



On 08/13/2013 11:30 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Oops, no i meant the Doc format compatibility is kinda fixed now and 
> can be gently improved on without worrying about what MS are going to 
> do to it.  The Doc is safe.
>
> It's only DocX that is constantly changing to the point where being 
> more compatible with one version of MSO seems to mean being less 
> compatible with another.  But even there, maybe it is possible to be 
> more compatible with all of them?  It's often a LibreOffice or 
> OpenOffice users in the office that helps people using different 
> versions of MSO to arrive at something both of them can read happily.
>
> Rogier did get me worried for a moment that maybe Doc was not working 
> quite as well as i hoped but then i realised it's more likely to be 
> some sort of user-error by one or more of his colleagues.  I find i 
> suffer from user error quite a bit myself so i can easily imagine how 
> it happens.
>
> I suspect that LO will keep supporting Doc long after MS drop it 
> completely themselves and i don't think that is likely to happen any 
> time soon.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     *From:* Girvin R. Herr <girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net>
>     *To:* Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
>     *Cc:* Rogier F. van Vlissingen <vliscony@gmail.com>;
>     "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
>     *Sent:* Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 18:53
>     *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ -
>     comments in .doc
>
>
>     On 08/13/2013 05:27 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
>     > Hi :)
>     > It's quite likely.  A bug-report is a good idea. An example file
>     might help.
>     >
>     > Btw i assume your MSO users have stuck with some ancient version
>     of MSO, such as 2007 or something?  I think the compatibility with
>     2013 is better and that is likely to create problems with
>     compatibility with older versions of MSO.
>     This implication concerns me!  If LO is going to drop .doc as a
>     standard, then my advice to others to use .doc instead of .docx as a
>     common interchange standard is in jeopardy.  I hope LO never drops
>     .doc
>     as a standard.  That said, I had to open a .docx form I received the
>     other week and LO opened it fine, with the exception of the usual
>     font
>     size problems that ran text off the right margin. That was easily
>     fixed
>     by changing the font size.
>     Regards.
>     Girvin Herr
>
>     >
>     > Are you sure it's .Doc rather than .DocX that is causing the
>     problem?  Most MSO users have no idea how to save in anything
>     other than DocX so it's FAR more likely they are sending you DocX
>     files and not even realising it or even believing they are sending
>     Doc because they just don't really know what they are using and
>     just jumping on the last name they vaguely recognise.  Windows
>     tries to hide the endings so they really don't know what they are
>     using most of the time.
>     >
>     > Doc itself is being deprecated in order to push people into
>     using the newer DocX and thus forcing people to buy newer versions
>     of MSO even if it's to do exactly the same work that MSO 2003 and
>     earlier could do.
>     > Regards from
>     > Tom :)
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >> ________________________________
>     >> From: Rogier F. van Vlissingen <vliscony@gmail.com
>     <mailto:vliscony@gmail.com>>
>     >> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
>     <mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org>
>     >> Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 12:27
>     >> Subject: [libreoffice-users] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ -
>     comments in .doc
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> Ever since 4.0 I have had increasing problems with file
>     compatibility with
>     >> MSO...
>     >>
>     >> Currently I am working on a project with MSO users and when I
>     open a .doc
>     >> which contains any comments, what happens is the last character
>     BEFORE the
>     >> comment anchor is reduced in font size, and therefore when you
>     delete the
>     >> comment, you now have to go into the text to fix the font size.
>     >>
>     >> Anyone had the same? I think it's time for a bug report.
>     >>
>     >> --
>     >> *Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen <http://viz.me/vliscony/t/7>*
>     >> *About Me* <http://about.me/vliscony>
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