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

Well I think for easier migration it would be nicer to have the best 
compartibility with MS formats because:

Many companies may have a HUGE amount of documents so it would cost 
effective to buy a MS licence instead of spending time to convert all 
these files into odf and free formats.

On 13/08/2013 08:53 μμ, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
> 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>
> > > To: 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.


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