Re: Saving As Docx

2017-02-26 Thread nasrin khaksar
odt files >> >> >> From: Hagar Delest <delest.ha...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 1:40 PM >> To: users@openoffice.apache.org >> Cc: tonytsu...@gmail.com >> Subject: Re: Saving As Docx >> >>

Re: Saving As Docx

2017-02-25 Thread ninja_glace
odt files > > > From: Hagar Delest <delest.ha...@gmail.com> > Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2017 1:40 PM > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > Cc: tonytsu...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Saving As Docx > > FW to OP. > > Hagar > &

Re: Saving As Docx

2017-02-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:14 18/02/2017 +, Isaac Schrader wrote: Openoffice only saves as .odt files That's simply untrue, of course. OpenOffice (Writer) can save text documents in a number of formats - including Microsoft's .doc format. Brian Barker

Re: Saving As Docx

2017-02-18 Thread Hagar Delest
FW to OP. Hagar Le 17/02/2017 à 06:43, Martin Groenescheij a écrit : On 17/02/17 4:11 PM, Tony Tsui wrote: Why doesn't OpenOffice support saving document files as .docx? It export to .doc which can be opened by the latest MS Office version. Supporting .docx requires a lot of reverse

Re: Saving As Docx

2017-02-18 Thread Hagar Delest
FW to OP. Hagar Le 17/02/2017 à 10:03, toki a écrit : On 02/17/2017 05:11 AM, Tony Tsui wrote: Why doesn't OpenOffice support saving document files as .docx? When you say ".docx" which of the following file formats do you mean: * ECMA-376; * ISO/IEC 29500 Transitional * ISO/IEC 29500

Re: Saving As Docx

2017-02-17 Thread Simon Phipps
Hi Tony. Originally it was for ideological reasons (so as not to appear to endorse Microsoft's format), but I think that is now long passed as a justification. LibreOffice has implemented this capability and I understand it was (and remains) a lot of work, so I'd guess that today the main obstacle

Re: Saving As Docx

2017-02-17 Thread toki
On 02/17/2017 05:11 AM, Tony Tsui wrote: > Why doesn't OpenOffice support saving document files as .docx? When you say ".docx" which of the following file formats do you mean: * ECMA-376; * ISO/IEC 29500 Transitional * ISO/IEC 29500 Strict; I thought that there was also an ISO/IEC 29500

Re: Saving As Docx

2017-02-16 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 17/02/17 4:11 PM, Tony Tsui wrote: Why doesn't OpenOffice support saving document files as .docx? It export to .doc which can be opened by the latest MS Office version. Supporting .docx requires a lot of reverse engineering and by the time you finished coding MS has changed their format.

Saving As Docx

2017-02-16 Thread Tony Tsui
Why doesn't OpenOffice support saving document files as .docx?