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

hay tom,other people is able to attach file in  the mailing list;but my
attached file was not visible.what mistake have i committed?

On 20 July 2011 23:37, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamilton@acm.org> wrote:

> 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 :)
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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