Good work and interesting :) You can change which ODF Format Version LibreOffice uses by going to the "Tools" menu
Tools - Options - "Load/Save" - General - "ODF Format Version" and change the drop-down from 1.2 Extended to 1.0/1.1. Thanks Dennis, regards all from Tom :) ----- Original Message ---- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, 4 June, 2011 21:35:24 > Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer 3.4.0 --- basic .doc/.odt files > not >understood properly by MS Office 2010 > > I've looked into this. > > FOR THE ODT FILES ONLY: > > The problem is that Microsoft supports ODF 1.1. The later versions of LO > (and >OO.o) anticipate ODF 1.2 and by default use ODF 1.2-only features of the >manifest in the ODT package. The Microsoft ODF 1.1 implementations do not >recognize those features and considers there to be something wrong. If you >let >Word "attempt to correct" the document it will, and it will be fine. (The >only >way it would not be fine is if the document was encrypted using something >other >than the default encryption that exists for ODF 1.1. But Office won't accept >any kind of encrypted ODF document, so the ODF 1.2 differences don't matter.) > > Then you have the reverse problem. If you save from Word as an ODT and take >it back to one of these recent LO (and OO.o) versions, they will sometimes >report that the ODF 1.1 that Office produced is corrupt. (This appears to be >related to their being some files in the package, such as for images, that >are >not in the manifest.) If you let the LO (and OO.o) product "attempt to >correct" it will and everything should work fine. > > The problem is that the corruption message is heavy-handed and there are >different ways where the down-level 1.1 and up-level 1.2-ready products are >unforgiving, even though it is something that they can fix. Also, if there >really is a document corruption, as opposed to one of those correctable >matters, we can't tell. > > FOR THE DOC FILES: > > I have not encountered or explored that. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: At0mic [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 07:19 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer 3.4.0 --- basic .doc/.odt files not >understood properly by MS Office 2010 > > LibreOffice Writer 3.4.0 running under Windows 7 64-bit. > > Problem 1 reproduction - > * Start Writer > * Create a document and type in a few words, nothing special or extravagant > * Save as an .odt file > * Load into MS Office 2010 > > Error message: > The file <filename> cannot be opened because there are problems with the >contents. > > Details > The file is corrupt and cannot be opened. > > Clicking OK asks if you want to recover the contents of the document. The >recovered document is correct and uncorrupted. > > ----- > > Problem 2 reproduction - > * Start Writer > * Create another document and type in a few words > * Save as a .doc file (97/2000/XP) > * Load into MS Office 2010 > > Red toolbar message: > Protected view - Office has detected a problem with this file. Editing it > may >harm your computer. Click here for details. > > It is then possible to click "Edit anyway" and get on with things. The > loaded >file is correct and uncorrupted. > > --- > > In the past I've never had problems with basic files working between both > word >processors, but something has happened which is causing Office 2010 to >dislike >both the .doc and .odt versions of the files LO is saving. This is not a good >thing. I'll refrain from calling it a bug in case there's an option within LO >which can save the files in such a way as to pacify Office 2010. Otherwise I >can't trust it to be usable in a mixed environment. > > -- > View this message in context: >http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LO-Writer-3-4-0-basic-doc-odt-files-not-understood-properly-by-MS-Office-2010-tp3023234p3023234.html > > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of >problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting >guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
