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Same deal.
Use the one "Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP .xls" format, not the one that ends with "x". 


On 08/08/2011 01:34 PM, Aarni Järvelä wrote:
Sorry guys, but I was talking about Calc/Excel spreadsheets, not Word text documents. 
-Aarni-

On 08.08.2011 20:15, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
Make sure you save the file as "Microsoft Word Win 97/2000/XP .doc format". That way you get one that should work fine. That is the one I use when I have to send a Word document to people. I never had any problems with it.
As other will tell you, stay clear of .docx" format. Any of the formats that show the "x" as the forth character are to be avoided. Sometimes, as I have been told by Word users, if you save a document with the latest Word format of .docx using Word 2010, it may not be read properly with Word 2007 or Word 2003 with the format extension/filter MS created for Office 2003 to read 2007 formats. So if MS cannot get their act together to allow their own products to read files saved by their own products, what hope will third-party packages have to be able to read/write those formats 100% of the time. 

So stick with .doc, and the other per Office 2007 formats.
Also, send them the link for LibreOffice, if it is appropriate to do so. let them know that it uses as their default formats, the International Standard formats for Office packages - ODF, while MSO's formats are not. Let them know that the software is free. Many people I have told did not believe it was free, until I stated that fact several times, and some it took a printout of the page stating it was free AND handing the a DVD with the package in it. 

On 08/08/2011 10:46 AM, soumalya ray wrote:
for me,no problem with doc but sometimes faced problem with docx.avoiding it 
now

On 8 August 2011 19:32, Tom Davies<tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:


Hi :)
Perhaps give them the link to download LibreOffice and let them know it 
reads a
wider range of formats and is more compatible with a wider range of other programs. Word 2010 is not always compatible with Word 2007 let alone Word 
2003.

Are you sure you are saving as Doc rather than DocX?  The DocX used by
default
in MS Office 2007& 2010 is not able to be read on earlier versions of MS 
Office
without installing extra an extra patch. Do they have problems opening 
documents from anyone else or do they keep quiet about that?  Again it
would be
a good reason for upgrading to LibreOffice because it can read both.


In LibreOffice or OpenOffice choose to "Save As" "Word (97/2000/XP)"
(scroll
back up the list 1 place) rather than the default Word format.  Or as
Graham
says use Rtf to avoid the whole issue.


At work i set the older MS Office formats as the default by going to
Tools - Options - Load/Save - General
Then down at the bottom use the 2 drop-downs to set
Text document = Microsoft Word (97/2000/XP)
Spreadsheet = Microsoft Excel (97/2000/XP)
Presentation = Microsoft Powerpoint (97/2000/XP)
For the last 2 it's 2 back up the list as 1 back is a template which is 
well
worth avoiding.
On the same page about halfway up i tend to change "ODF format version" 
right
back from "1.2 Extended (recommended)" to "1.0/1.1" because MS Office 2010 
&
2007 can just about read those. I don't know why they haven't tried the 
newer
spec, it's not exactly hidden or difficult or anything. I think the 1.2 
was not
around in 2007. Further down in the Writer section - Compatibility i tick 
all
the boxes just as the extra finesse.


Regards from
Tom :)




________________________________
From: Graham Mullan<graham.mullan@coly.org.uk>
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 8 August, 2011 14:12:08
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] doc-files

On 08/08/2011 14:02, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote:

Hello,
I sometimes have to send files created under LO-Writer to people who use M$-Word. I then store them in .doc-format for sending. From time to time people tell me that they cannot open these files. Has anybody experienced 
this problem?
Regards
H. S.
This is likely to be a consequence of the particular version of Word that 
your
correspondents are using. A simple answer would be to save the documents in 
.rtf
format instead.

Graham

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