Dan, Thanks for this clarification. Thus, as I understand, there is no update foreseen changing the content of OOo default output, which uses ODF 1.2 extended, ad than if today the OOo output can be read by Word 2007, this situation will be the same with the being prepared 3.4 release. Am I right? Do you know, who can confirm this point?
I switched to LibOffice when Oracle withdrew from it and I feared about the future of OOo. Brges Jacek -----Message d'origine----- De : Dan Lewis [mailto:[email protected]] Envoyé : vendredi 13 janvier 2012 13:43 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? From what you wrote, there is no bug in OOo. OOo clearly creates documents that Word 2007 can read. The problem is with LibreOffice: it is the one with the bug. OOo and LibreOffice are not the same. LibreOffice is a fork of OOo meaning it has the same basic computer code, but it also has some computer code that differs from OOo. The bug seems to be located in the computer code that differs from OOo. If you want to use LibreOffice when sending documents to people having Word 2007, you will need to wait until LibreOffice fixes the bug. However, as you pointed out, you can use OOo 3.3.3 now. Why not continue using OOo? --Dan On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 13:14 +0100, Jacek wrote: > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
