Hi :) Sorry it has taken me so long to reply. I can confirm the behaviour so it's worth posting a bug-report about it. There might already be a bug-report but because it's a proprietary format it might be difficult to get fixed so don't expect swift results!
Weirdly i opened the DocX in MS Office 2007 and found that it looked fine, just like the Doc format. The Odt format wouldn't open even after i re-saved it as version 1.0/1.1. So, your DocX looks fine in MS Office 2007 but just looks weird in LibreOffice. The DocX opened fine in LibreOffice 3.3.2 but had the same problem with the table stretching off the page. I switched to View - Webpage and dragged the table back within the normal page view and saved the page again but suffered the same problem. DocX just wont work with this table in LibreOffice and i don't know why. DocX does often have troubles of this sort so it's best to stick with Doc. DocX 'should' be smaller (as 'should' Odt) because they are compressed files. You can even read them with an archive manager such as WinRar or WinZip although the results show a folder containing the different parts of the file = it's very weird but worth trying as it can be a really cool way of recovering parts of a document that seems hopelessly corrupted and unrecoverable. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: soumalya ray <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 20 July, 2011 12:41:59 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] formatting problem with table in libreoffice writer i will definitely send the attachments to you.i have not checked the files yet with MS office.i am wondering because-created the documents in libreoffice,saved them and reopened them & this changed the document totally!!!!!!!!!!!!!libreoffice itself could not open the document it created properly!!!!! anyway i will send you the documents.have a look.i will try to use odt as much as possible and thanks for the direction for playing with the settings. On 20 July 2011 14:00, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Attachments get removed before the email gets to the list. Can you upload > the > files somewhere and then give us a link? Alternatively you could use my > private > email address (use copy&paste rather than just "Reply to") to send the > attachments to although i only have a limited idea of what might have > happened. > > > The Doc format is much better than the DocX for sharing with other people. > Even > DocX files made in MS Office 2007 tend to go a bit wrong when viewed with > MS > Office 2010 and similarly the other way around. Of course any MS Office > before > their 2007 can't read DocX at all. > > > MS Office 2007 was the first MS Office to be able to read OdT format but > they > use the old spec despite the newer spec being easier to find out about and > implement. The DocX spec is very secretive and even MS don't implement it > properly. So, it's better to use the older Doc format so that almost > anyone can > open the document. > > > To increase compatibility with MS Office go up to the "Tools" menu and then > right down to "Options" at the bottom. The pop-up contains many useful > settings > and is well worth having a look at but for now just click on the + beside > "Load/Save, then click on "General". Somewhere in the middle is "ODF > Format > Version". Change the drop-down beside that from "1.2 Extended > (recommended)" to > "1.0/1.1". Files saved in that format should be easily opened in MS Office > just > by double-clicking on them. If you look just under there you can change > the > "Text Document" format to "Microsoft Word (98/2000/Xp)". Similarly for > Spreadsheets and presentations although for those 2 you need to scroll back > up > the list 2 places instead of just 1 otherwise documents get saved as > templates > which gets really messy. > > Good luck and regards from > Tom :) > > > > > ________________________________ > From: soumalya ray <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, 20 July, 2011 8:44:05 > Subject: [libreoffice-users] formatting problem with table in libreoffice > writer > > hi, > just started using libreoffice in ubuntu lucid,version is 3.3.2. > i tried to insert a table & wrote something in it.saved it as .docx and > closed libreoffice.then again opened the document using libreoffice > itself.the last column of the table is going outside the page boundary.this > made the last column invisible for all practical purposes. > i would like to know the mistake i am doing and how to solve it. > i am attaching 3 files here-- > .odt-what i have written > .doc-what i am expecting > .docx-what i am getting > please help me and thanks in advance > > -- > 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/global/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/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
