It is not a bug, but it is a difference. MICROSOFT OFFICE BEHAVIOR
I just opened that document, with name PERENNIAL.doc successfully in Microsoft Word 2013 Preview (x64 to my surprise) and in Word 2010. In Word 2007 SP3, there were reports that the attempt to treat the document as WordPerfect (which also used the .DOC extension) failed, but then it opened just fine in "Compatibility Mode." Word 2003 reported that it could not handle the file with a couple of converters and said that another converter was needed. (That had me thinking that I may not have installed the Compatibility Pack on this one.) I selected OK for download and installation of a needed converter. It finally failed attempting to open the file as text. I confirmed that the Word 2003 Compatibility Pack (which supports OOXML) was installed. But apparently the Word 2003 sniffer for file format doesn't detect OOXML and use the correct converter when loading a .DOC file. THE DIFFERENCE Microsoft Office does not rely on file extensions exclusively. It also sniffs the file to determine what the real format is, if possible. (The OOXML standard does not even specify file extensions.) In the case of Word 2007, Word 2010, and Word 2013 Preview, this works fine. THE IMPROVEMENT FOR AOOi It would be useful to have the AOOi code that opens non-ODF documents (and ODF file extensions for that matter) to sniff the document and determine the actual case better than it does. - Dennis PS: e-letter may be pleased to learn that Office 2013 Preview appears to produce and consume ODF 1.2 documents quite nicely. This includes Excel now using OpenFormula when saving a document as ODF, and the few tests I've run open beautifully in LibreOffice Calc. (I haven't tried AOOi Calc interoperability testing yet. That's done on a different computer.) -----Original Message----- From: James Knott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 09:02 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: AOo fails to open a M$ Word 2010 document... e-letter wrote: > On 18/07/2012, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I also belong to the opensuse mailing list and someone sent in a post >>> abo= >>> ut >>> a .doc that OOo won't open. He says it's an MS Word 2010 document. >>> >>> I tried it with AOo 3.4 and sure enough, it won't open. It says it's >>> 'corrupted' and asks to try and fix it which it fails at. >>> > Why should ao programmers waste their time? Have you written to m$ to > ask them to improve the ability of their software to open odf files? > > It is far more important for ao to be able to perform in native file formats. > > One thing that's been pointed out is that the file has the wrong extension. Change it back to DOCX and it works fine. When does someone changing a file extension become a bug in AOo? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
