Hi :) Perhaps give them the link to download LibreOffice and let them know it reads a wider range of formats and is more compatible with a wider range of other programs. Word 2010 is not always compatible with Word 2007 let alone Word 2003.
Are you sure you are saving as Doc rather than DocX? The DocX used by default in MS Office 2007 & 2010 is not able to be read on earlier versions of MS Office without installing extra an extra patch. Do they have problems opening documents from anyone else or do they keep quiet about that? Again it would be a good reason for upgrading to LibreOffice because it can read both. In LibreOffice or OpenOffice choose to "Save As" "Word (97/2000/XP)" (scroll back up the list 1 place) rather than the default Word format. Or as Graham says use Rtf to avoid the whole issue. At work i set the older MS Office formats as the default by going to Tools - Options - Load/Save - General Then down at the bottom use the 2 drop-downs to set Text document = Microsoft Word (97/2000/XP) Spreadsheet = Microsoft Excel (97/2000/XP) Presentation = Microsoft Powerpoint (97/2000/XP) For the last 2 it's 2 back up the list as 1 back is a template which is well worth avoiding. On the same page about halfway up i tend to change "ODF format version" right back from "1.2 Extended (recommended)" to "1.0/1.1" because MS Office 2010 & 2007 can just about read those. I don't know why they haven't tried the newer spec, it's not exactly hidden or difficult or anything. I think the 1.2 was not around in 2007. Further down in the Writer section - Compatibility i tick all the boxes just as the extra finesse. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Graham Mullan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 8 August, 2011 14:12:08 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] doc-files On 08/08/2011 14:02, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote: > Hello, > I sometimes have to send files created under LO-Writer to people who use > M$-Word. I then store them in .doc-format for sending. From time to time > people tell me that they cannot open these files. Has anybody experienced > this problem? > Regards > H. S. This is likely to be a consequence of the particular version of Word that your correspondents are using. A simple answer would be to save the documents in .rtf format instead. Graham -- For 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 -- For 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
