Thanks, all. I appreciate the background information on why compatibility is not assured or easy. I will upgrade to 5.4x when the time is right (when I have at least one grizzled Linux veteran nearby to help out if the unexpected occurs) ...
--Nancy On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Derek Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:25:45PM -0500, Nancy Allison wrote: > > Is there a Word-compatible open source program that truly does not trash > > the formatting? Or is it simply not possible to pass documents back and > > forth between Word and an open source program like LibreOffice or > > OpenOffice? I used Open Office years ago, haven't used it recently, it > used > > to trash the files, too. > > The Open Office project still exists with different leadership (it's > now an Apache project), and while my understanding is on the whole > Libre Office's Word compaitibility is better, it may be possible that > a recent version of Open Office handles your particular document > better, depending on exactly what features it is using. Could be > worth a try. As others said, also try upgrading your Libre Office > version... > > -- > Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 > -=-=-=-=- > This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will > result in > undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
