Re: [libreoffice-users] file format problem?

On 04/06/2016 11:16 AM, anne-ology wrote:
>         Maybe I can help,
>            [see notes interspersed below]
>
>
>
> From: Thomas Blasejewicz <nyuwa@hb.tp1.jp>
> Date: Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:50 AM
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] file format problem?
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
>
>
> Good evening
> I am not sure whether this is a LibreOffice (?) problem or just MY problem.
> It happened before, but I will describe the latest episode.
>
> I was working with Writer on a Word (.docx) file. As a translation job I
> was supposed to overwrite that file.
>
>     [MsFt does not necessarily recognize LO; had you opened this in LO or
> MsFt? (docx is one of MsFt's files)]

Is there any requirement to use MS's .docx format instead of the more 
compatible .doc format?

I do not do any translation between languages, but if you do not need to 
use .docx for the translated file, then I would not do so.

To be honest, the .docx format have compatibility issues between MS's 
Word versions.  Last year, I finally convinced a MS Office user that it 
would be better to use .doc over .docx for the files emailed out to many 
users that have various versions of MS Office, and for me LO.

For me, I make all my word processing documents using .odt and then save 
it in .doc format for the MS Word users.



> The file contained images, tables and objects.
> After being 2/3 finished, I saved the file, went downstairs and wanted
> to continue working while having a coffee.
> However, when I opened the file, saved in SpiderOakOne, I noticed, that
> the latter 2/3 of the file were gone.
>
>     [yet another program?]
>
> Including 1/2 day of work.
> Even archived earlier versions of the same file showed only the first 1/3.
> Trying to open that file with MS Word, resulted in the following error:
> "File Format error at
> SAXParse Exception:
> [word/document.xml line 2]:
> Attribute w:hAnsi redefined
> Stream word/document.xml line 2, column 73305 (row,col)"
>
>     [suggestion: open LO - then attempt to open saved document, allowing it
> to translate if necessary;
>         hopefully, your file will re-appear.]
>
> The file contained originally about 4300 Japanese characters.
> Even though there was nothing on my screen beyond the first 1/3 of that
> file, its size did not change.
> When I deleted the second 2/3 of the original file, the original size of
> 470 kb shrank to 130 kb.
> After I retyped all the lost work and saved that first as .ODT and then
> later as .docx, file size was 23 and 16 kb respectively.
>
>     [these are MsFt not LO documents.]
>
> A different translator translating the same file (probably using MS
> Word) into a different language had apparently no problems.
>
> What is happening here?
> Does this mean Writer has problems handling MS Word files?
> Is it the incomprehensible .docs format?
>
>     [that's a good word to describe MsFt  ;-)]
>
> Do I HAVE to use Word for such file? Something I really do not want to do!
> Is there anything to PREVENT this kind of event? (retyping my work all
> the time will get me into real trouble!)
>
>     [suggestion: use LO to open documents ... work with documents ... then
> if necessary, save as MsFt to send to others
>        - although if they too have LO, then no translation would be
> necessary  ;-)]
>
> Thomas


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