Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

If I sum up the problems with docx documents and with LO in general, 
best solution is to have a pc with linux and virtual box for running 
WIN7 and original MS Office.
If you earn your money with these docx then you have to adopt your work 
flow to that.
You can not tell your customer to change his workflow.

You will see you have a lot of problems less, doing so.

Gerald

On 2013-10-27 01:23, e-letter wrote:
> On 25/10/2013, baldwin linguas <baldwinlinguas@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It's ruining my business.
> > I'm losing clients, losing money, and I have a family to feed.
> > And I don't know what to do about it.
> > OpenOffice won't write to .docx, and LibreOffice messes them up.
>
> Perhaps you should compare the editing process using m$. Explain to a
> customer that you are going to send two versions of the document (the
> m$ edit version with name file1.docx and the LO edit version
> file2.docx; don't tell that LO is being used!) and ask for
> confirmation which version is received in better condition.
>
> Hopefully both versions will have changed, in which case you now have
> the opportunity to demonstrate to the customer that m$docx is a
> dubious format to use.
>
> If format loss never occurred with m$doc, ask the customer to send
> their documents to you in that format and presumably you can continue
> to use LO. However, LO is not an m$ clone and long term, you should be
> advising your customer to create odf documents using LO (additional
> consulting opportunity for you?)
>
> Surely in business, you should be flexible in order to get paid? Would
> you really refuse a € 1000 invoice because of the need to buy € 50
> software? ;)
>
> Good luck.

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Gerald Pechoc
Fedora User
email: fedora@pechoc.eu



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