https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102515
Bug ID: 102515
Summary: All Formats Missing in Save As Dialog [Windows Only]
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.2.0.4 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
In Linux by default when you save as you'll see that the format drop down on
the bottom right says "All Formats". This is not available in Windows so the
default is open document format (odf).
This can cause some confusion because in Linux if you save something as
"test.doc" then it automatically saves it as a Windows 97/03 document format.
In Windows on the other hand, when you save as "test.doc" it actually saves the
file as an odf, not as a Windows 97/03 document format. This gets further
confusing when you look at that odf file (saved as "test.doc") in Windows
Explorer because the extension is actually "doc" which makes Windows Explorer
show the file as a Microsoft Office file, not a LibreOffice file.
To make things even more confusing, if you open that file in Microsoft Office
2013, no warnings come up that it's an odf file - but Microsoft's support of
ODF is nonsense and causes some headaches with maintaining formatting and what
not. User opens a file that he/she believes is a Microsoft Office file format,
opens with all the formatting screwed up in Office 2013, thinks that
LibreOffice broke something, never is the wiser that the file is actually an
odf file. Open the same file in Office 2010 and you of course get the error
that MS Office provides showing that the file is ODF file format and not fully
supported.
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