Re: [libreoffice-users] Bugs and Issue

Hi :)
Earlier versions of the docX implementation don't always work on more
recent versions of MS Office.  Doc does but DocX doesn't always.
Regards from
Tom :)


On 22 November 2013 14:33, Kracked_P_P---webmaster
<webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:
> I have a lady who use to send out "complex" .docx files, via email, to
> people in a transportation advisory group.  I had a long "talk" with her,
> via emails, about the "incompatibilities" of MSO with their older versions.
> Now, most times, she sends the documents that are not to be edited as PDF
> files.  The others she remembers about half of the time to send the files
> out as .doc instead of .docx.
>
> She has changed jobs, promotion [sort of], to the department that oversees
> the company that she worked for.  That department is part of the "County"
> government administration.  I have been trying, on and off, to get the
> County to use LO in some of their areas of agency support that would be
> perfect for LO as a MSO replacement even using MSO document formats.  I am
> working on the idea of saving money on their budget.
>
> So the issue of the incompatibilities between various versions of MSO is
> part of the problem with buying new MSO packages, or "renting them".  If I
> could get them to stick with an earlier version of the .docx file format or
> the .doc format, then that would solve some of their problems and would make
> LO perfect for some of their system needs/usage.  They oversee several
> community computer centers.  So getting the County on board will make it
> easier to get LO into some of the region's computer centers.
>
>
> On 11/21/2013 08:12 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > Backwards incompatibilities are fairly understandable.  New features
> > added between 2007 and 2013 are unlikely to be able to be seen in
> > 2007.  That kinda makes sense to me.
> >
> > What doesn't make sense is how often files created using MS Office
> > 2007 run into trouble in newer versions of MS Office, such as 2010
> > (I've managed to avoid 2013 and 365 so far!).  One of my clients was
> > running into so many problems with his new laptop's MSO 2013 failure
> > to handle files given to him by 2010 users that he finally allowed me
> > to install LibreOffice so that i can send him Odts.
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 21 November 2013 15:21, Joel Madero <jmadero.dev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 11/21/2013 06:17 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > > > Hi :)
> > > > Yes, "Save As..." to "Microsoft Office 98/2000/Xp" (or something like
> > > > that, just not anything more recent than 2003).
> > > > Regards from
> > >
> > > Just to continue off of previous statements - Microsoft changes the .docx
> > > and .xlsx format so frequently that I've heard that people using 2007
> > > (which
> > > supports the x format) can have a nightmare of a time with 2013 files
> > > (using
> > > the "same" x format). I really don't understand how their formats
> > > continue
> > > to be dominant despite this reality along with the fact that the true
> > > international standard is the open standard used by almost every other
> > > office suite - pretty ridiculous.
> > >
> > > But for an immediate solution, .doc and .xls aren't changing any longer
> > > and
> > > our support is *relatively* good.
> > >
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Joel
>
>
>
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