Word 2007 has no issue to open OOo created ODF 1.2 extended file. As I was told that it's because of a bug of OOo, I fear that in the future the bug will be fixed and the possibility of opening the OOo file when default format is used will be lost (as it is the case with LibOffice, today).
I would like to recommend to some Association members I work with, to use Open Office, but they are not the ones who can change OOo settings or play with output file format. For me, it is a mean to introduce in their environment some "libre" software. But, it will work only and only, if they have no issue when exchanging the files with external world. For the time being they use Word, but as they have to upgrade their computers, I planned to recommend, at first LibOffice. As I found the LibOffice issue with word, I tried OOo. I was happy that there were no issue with word to open OOo 3.3.3 created file till the moment I was told that this is a bug in OOo and that this bug will be fixed... Bregs Jacek -----Message d'origine----- De : Dan Lewis [mailto:[email protected]] Envoyé : vendredi 13 janvier 2012 12:56 À : [email protected] Objet : Re: OOo, ODF 1.2 extended format and Word: is the possibility to open OOo generated file by word ed as bug? On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 09:14 +0100, Jacek wrote: > Hello, > > > > I tried to open ODF 1.2 extended format file generated by LibOffice > using Word 2007 and this didn't work properly. > > I tried OOo 3.3.3 and I had no issue to open ODF 1.2 extended file > generated by it using word. > > Someone told me that I was successful in opening OOo created file in > word because of a bug in OOo. And he added that this bug would be > fixed in the future. > > Is this statement correct? Am I able to open OOo created file because > of bug? If so, is this "bug", which allows Word 2007 to open OOo > generated file, going to be fix, i.e. is OOo going to generate the > files, which will be difficult to open with Word or other Microsoft Office > modules? > > > > Is this the right forum to ask this question? If not, please let me > know where it should be asked. > Best regards > Jacek > The problem may be with Word 2007. ODF 1.2 extended was created after Word 2007 so Word 2007 does not know how to handle the changes made when the open document format went from ODF 1.1 to ODF 1.2 extended. There has been some comments on this mailing list earlier about MS Office not handling ODF 1.2 extended. Work around: open the document in OOo. Change the ODF setting. (Tools > Options > Load/Save > General ) Then use save As to save the document as ODF 1.0/1.1. --Dan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
