Re: LibreOffice and old Microsoft Binary file formats.

2020-02-03 Thread Wols Lists
On 21/01/20 23:56, Drew Jensen wrote: > Howdy, > > Today I worked with 5 different word processors (LibreOffice 6.4, > OnlyOffice 5.2, MS Word web, LibreOffice online and Google Docs, all > current and in use in the wild. > > Of those 5 only one still allows the user to save files in the old >

Re: LibreOffice and old Microsoft Binary file formats.

2020-01-24 Thread julien2412
+1000 I completely agree with you, it would allow to close some bugs and focus on the bugs related to new format. About the exchanging pb, OOo and LO are free so it's not really a pb. Also, since it would be declared in release notes, it wouldn't surprise anyone. Julien -- Sent from:

Re: LibreOffice and old Microsoft Binary file formats.

2020-01-23 Thread Yury
That kind of thinking would be appropriate to an entity controlling the market of wordprocessors, which neither of Openoffices is. Now, quite a lot of journals accept submissions in the binary Word format, not in the OOXML one. Wordprocessor without the export feature becomes sort of useless in

Re: LibreOffice and old Microsoft Binary file formats.

2020-01-22 Thread Luke Benes
> MS Word in the web (via onedrive) You are comparing apples to oranges. The onedrive version is the free, crippleware version. The paid version that companies use does include the functionality to save as with the older binary formats. [1] Until recently, my company had a group policy to save

Re: LibreOffice and old Microsoft Binary file formats.

2020-01-22 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
Drew Jensen kirjoitti 22.1.2020 klo 1.56: Today I worked with 5 different word processors (LibreOffice 6.4, OnlyOffice 5.2, MS Word web, LibreOffice online and Google Docs, all current and in use in the wild. Of those 5 only one still allows the user to save files in the old Microsoft Binary

LibreOffice and old Microsoft Binary file formats.

2020-01-21 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy, Today I worked with 5 different word processors (LibreOffice 6.4, OnlyOffice 5.2, MS Word web, LibreOffice online and Google Docs, all current and in use in the wild. Of those 5 only one still allows the user to save files in the old Microsoft Binary version. In fact the other 4,