RE: [libreoffice-users] formatting problem with table in libreoffice writer

I read and write OOXML files in Office 2003 all the time, and have since the compatibility pack was 
released.  I still use that for testing purposes (and testing of the open-source ODF converter that 
works with Office 2003 also).  I've not stumbled on any material compatibility issues except when 
Office 2003 simply can't handle an up-level feature (such as expanded change-tracking capability), 
and then the degradation tends to be non-catastrophic.

I shall bite my tongue about the rest of your unsupported statements, but for two.  (1) ODF 1.2 was 
not available as a stable Committee Specification (still not yet an OASIS standard, but soon) until 
March 2011.  Office 2007 SP1 came out when?  How do you consider the "newer-spec" being any of the 
things you say, and how could that have mattered for Office 2007?  (2) The OOXML formats are 
described in ISO/IEC Standard IS 29500:2008, the downloads are free from ISO (if you know where to 
look) and the ECMA equivalents are also free for download.  What's secret about that?

ODF 1.0 is also the current level of the ISO Standard, which is specified in many international 
contexts.  I recall Microsoft saying they would be ODF 1.1 compatible (since the deviations from 
ODF 1.0 are minor and the incorporation of accessibility support in 1.1 is important) even though 
it hadn't achieved international-standard status.

Also, it is important to understand that ODF 1.x compatibility and compatibility with 
OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice are different things.

I am willing to overlook your various opinions about Microsoft products, but these kinds of 
unsupported material claims deserve public fact-checking.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 01:30
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting problem with table in libreoffice writer

Hi :)
Attachments get removed before the email gets to the list.  Can you upload the 
files somewhere and then give us a link?  Alternatively you could use my private 
email address (use copy&paste rather than just "Reply to") to send the 
attachments to although i only have a limited idea of what might have happened.  


The Doc format is much better than the DocX for sharing with other people.  Even 
DocX files made in MS Office 2007 tend to go a bit wrong when viewed with MS 
Office 2010 and similarly the other way around.  Of course any MS Office before 
their 2007 can't read DocX at all.  


MS Office 2007 was the first MS Office to be able to read OdT format but they 
use the old spec despite the newer spec being easier to find out about and 
implement.  The DocX spec is very secretive and even MS don't implement it 
properly.  So, it's better to use the older Doc format so that almost anyone can 
open the document.  


To increase compatibility with MS Office go up to the "Tools" menu and then 
right down to "Options" at the bottom.  The pop-up contains many useful settings 
and is well worth having a look at but for now just click on the + beside 
"Load/Save, then click on "General".  Somewhere in the middle is "ODF Format 
Version".  Change the drop-down beside that from "1.2 Extended (recommended)" to 
"1.0/1.1".  Files saved in that format should be easily opened in MS Office just 
by double-clicking on them.  If you look just under there you can change the 
"Text Document" format to "Microsoft Word (98/2000/Xp)".  Similarly for 
Spreadsheets and presentations although for those 2 you need to scroll back up 
the list 2 places instead of just 1 otherwise documents get saved as templates 
which gets really messy.

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)




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From: soumalya ray <drsoumalya@gmail.com>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 20 July, 2011 8:44:05
Subject: [libreoffice-users] formatting problem with table in libreoffice writer

hi,
just started using libreoffice in ubuntu lucid,version is 3.3.2.
i tried to insert a table & wrote something in it.saved it as .docx and
closed libreoffice.then again opened the document using libreoffice
itself.the last column of the table is going outside the page boundary.this
made the last column invisible for all practical purposes.
i would like to know the mistake i am doing and how to solve it.
i am attaching 3 files here--
.odt-what i have written
.doc-what i am expecting
.docx-what i am getting
please help me and thanks in advance

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