Joshua Lee wrote:
Mircea LUTIC wrote:
Hi,
I found that Open Office for Windows crashes systematically when
attempting to open a WordML docx document that contains tables
generated with XSL according to the instructions here:
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=xml&seqNum=178
<http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=xml&seqNum=178>
See the attached file.
There is something really ugly in there.
Also, registering on the web site does not allow me to login (look
for my email in the registration/login logs on your server).
Thanks,
Mircea.
The support in OOo is for the formats introduced with Office 2007 (an
early version of Office Open XML), not with the Microsoft Office XML
formats, so the file is not recognized as one that OOo can use.
Neither conforms to the "standard" Microsoft pushed through for its
future XML types, so they will lose MS support before too long anyway.
When you refer to Open Office for Windows -- did you actually download
from www.openoffice.org, or somewhere else? Or did you not download
and install at all? Ordinary use of OOo does not require registration
on the web site. Registration is needed for forum participation,
submitting issues, and other things like that, not for using the
applications or for participating in mailing lists like this one
(where your messages are seen by volunteers, not by anybody in OOo
administration). Why do you expect to log in?
By the way, please respond only to the list ([email protected]),
so others can help as needed.
Question, Did I read that post right? Or am I confused? It seems like
you said OpenOffice.org isn't going to continue to support MS office
extensions. If so, I am 100% against that idea. BOOO. My biggest
selling point when convincing people to convert to the OpenOffice
religion [:-)] is that it is very compatible with MS Office. I've
installed OpenOffice on nearly 3000 users' PCs now, and I wouldn't have
been able to convince half of them to let me do that if OpenOffice
couldn't handle MSOffice formats.
A little confusion, I think -- I was talking specifically about .docx,
and about Microsoft's support for its own older formats, which tends to
disappear. I'm sure OOo will do its best to continue supporting all the
formats it knows of, including the Office 2007 XML-based ones (both that
and WordML use the .docx extension, and the situation will only get
worse with the new "standard" Office Open XML). I don't think that's
ever included the ones Mircea is describing, though, and I doubt that
any new programming effort is likely for those formats because of the
likelihood of a very limited audience. The developers get stretched very
thin just in dealing with current issues and new capabilities. I can't
speak for the developers, though, I'm just a bystander.
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