Re: [libreoffice-users] ODT MSO to LO

2014-02-27 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 18:28 +1100, Tim Lloyd wrote: Similarly LO documents created as ODF and subsequently opened in MS Office. Any experiences? I've had several occasions when MSO says there's corrupted info in the document and it can't open it. Unfortunately I can't remember what versions

Re: [libreoffice-users] ODT MSO to LO

2014-02-27 Thread Svante Schubert
Am 27.02.2014 11:29, schrieb Gordon Burgess-Parker: On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 18:28 +1100, Tim Lloyd wrote: Similarly LO documents created as ODF and subsequently opened in MS Office. Any experiences? I've had several occasions when MSO says there's corrupted info in the document and it can't

Re: [libreoffice-users] ODT MSO to LO

2014-02-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Prior to MS Office 2013 MS used the excuse that ODF 1.2 had not been officially released so they tried to implement the 1.1 but of course they had a vested interest in making sure it didn't work properly so that they could blame the format. ODF 1.2 had been being used for years in many

Re: [libreoffice-users] ODT MSO to LO

2014-02-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Actually the Doc format works just fine in LibreOffice and almost all other office suites and programs. It's only the DocX that really has problems. Many people don't even have any idea of what format they are using. Windows defaults hide the file-extensions so it's difficult to find out.

Re: [libreoffice-users] ODT MSO to LO

2014-02-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) From what i have read about other large scale migrations to OpenOffice or LibreOffice it's a good idea to get in contact with some of our BoD (Board of Directors) and through them maybe some on TDF's Advisory Board http://www.documentfoundation.org/contact/ and / or people from the Free

[libreoffice-users] ODT MSO to LO

2014-02-26 Thread Tim Lloyd
Hi, we hear about people experiencing problems when opening documents in LO after they were created by MS Office in the .DOC/.DOCX formats. How about documents created in MS Office in the .ODF format? Does anyone have experience opening these documents in LO? Similarly LO documents created