Re: [libreoffice-users] LibO3.3 hangs up when saving an *.odt as *.doc

Hi :)

Reporting bugs is great and will hopefully enable swift fixes.  

I was hoping for a simple work-around until the fix.  Obviously if you have to 
upload the documents to a site or to a shared-folder on a file-server then you 
have no room to manoeuvre, especially if 'guidelines' = 'must do'.  If you 
e-mail the documents to 1 or a few people then there might be options such as 
the ones i suggested.

If there is some "wriggle room" then 'most' people are probably able to 
read/write "odt" by now as they will probably have been forced into buying MS 
Office 2007 or 2010 so  ".odt" would be a good option.  However, there is always 
likely to be a small die-hard crowd and some apologetic "hangers-on" that stick 
with the older versions.  It is only that tiny percentage that might have a 
problem (although a link to LibreOffice's download page might solve a lot of 
problems for them) but the overwhelming majority of people would have no trouble 
accessing other formats.

Any rule, policy, guideline, polite notice or wishful thinking documented that 
asks people to use ".doc" is likely to get upgraded or seen as annoyingly 
antiquated (or dangerously behind) quite soon.  The default choice for most 
management structures would be to update those to ".docX" without thinking about 
it.  Is there any way we could suggest changing to ".odt" as a better, 
longer-term alternative to those people/organisations?  Ideally someone from the 
Steering Committee; preferably someone with a lot of clout and a good track 
record of skilful diplomacy such as Italo Vignoli would be excellent at this.

Again, just a suggestion.  It is more important that you are able to get on with 
work that needs doing quickly with the least possible hassle!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)






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From: Richard <richard.holt@gmail.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Fri, 28 January, 2011 13:49:48
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] LibO3.3 hangs up when saving an *.odt as *.doc

Sorry. Running the rc4, which according to the website is the final, on
Debian Squeeze, up-to-date.

I use it, as many do, for translation and colaborative work with
corporations.
It is unrealistic to ask them all to download LO, nor OOo, nor anything
else.
One must comply with their guidelines or look for work in other places.
If I were independently wealthy, I would not have this problem and could use
what ever suits me.

I will download the LO 3.3 Final, just in case there were actually changes,
and give it another shot.
I do hope you're right, because it seemed much smoother, quicker, nicer than
OOo3.2.1.
But maybe I just want it to be better.

Thanks for the feedback.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Luuk <luuk34@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28-01-11 03:31, Richard wrote:
> > This was a bug in a previous beta or rc.
> > Have to go back to OOo3.2.1 again.
> > Waiting for the 3.3.1.
> > And the LO33 is so great except for that. :((
>
> you are probably talking about this bug:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33050
>
> it still NOT has status SOLVED.. ;)
>
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