I haven't had a chance to check out the various options, but there are some free conversion tools and some tools for pay that translate docx to doc and, I think, vice versa.
Does anyone have any experience with these? On Mar 7, 2011, at 8:17 AM, Arda Tunccekic wrote: > If the "x format" is the default format in the leading&mainstream office > product, you can't escape from it unfortunately. > It is useful for me because the documents are smaller in size. > I know it's so much pain for the development team but LO should be compatible > in every possible way. > If someday LO market takes over, LO can set the rules. > > > On 07.03.2011 15:14, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: >> On 03/07/2011 05:30 AM, David Griffiths wrote: >>> Arda Tunccekic wrote: >>> >>>> I have a document with 3 pages and I have a footer in it and I want to >>>> see the pagenumber/pagecount there. >>>> >>>> I select the footer and I insert the page number and page count like this >>>> >>>> Insert -> Fields -> Page Number , I type "/" , Insert -> Fields -> >>>> Page Number >>>> >>>> When I do a print preview it looks ok. >>>> >>>> But when I save the document and open it again I see -1-3 , -2-3 , -3-3 >>>> instead. >>>> >>>> I use the current version : LibreOffice 3.3.1 Build:8 >>>> >>>> The file extension is docx >>>> >>>> >>> Hi >>> >>> I can confirm this behaviour. Seems like you've hit upon a bug within the >>> .docx format. All works as expected in .odf >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> Dave >> Do yourself a favor. If you must have your documents readable in Word, use >> the ".doc" format instead of that bloated/complex ".docx" format. I really >> wonder what MS people was thinking about when they created that XML based >> format. I know a lot of MSO people who do not touch .docx and .xltx >> formats. They stick with .doc and .xlt since it is able to be used my more >> MS Office versions. Since I do not use MSO, I stick with ODF formats like >> .odt and .ods. But try to avoid MSO's "x" file formats. See if you can get >> all the people you know that use MSO to stop using "x" file formats. >> >> >> > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** > Glenn [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
