On 08/12/2011 04:39 PM, planas wrote: > Hi :) > > On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 21:21 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) >> Yes, it does crop up quite often but it is still a legitimate question. >> >> Ideally convert things to doc format if that is possible. DocX is designed >> to >> be incompatible with non-MS products imo. However the LibreOffice 3.4.2 >> often >> does a better job of read/writing docXs than the 3.3.3 but having both is >> possible if you follow this guide >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel >> Still neither is perfect at it so trying to stick with Doc is better. >> >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Rob Harriman <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 19:59:56 >> Subject: [libreoffice-users] MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office >> >> Hi, >> Am a newbie to Libre Office so apologies if this has been answered elsewhere. >> >> When I load .docx files into Office 3 for view/edit the formatting is shot >> to >> pieces and the Table of Contents is not picked up when included in the >> original. >> It appears that .doc files are loading ok. >> I thought that .docx files were supported by LO. Apologies if this >> assumption is >> incorrect. >> >> Is there anything that I can do to address these formatting issues, or must >> I >> convert these .docx files to .doc format before reading them in LO? >> Thanks ... > > My experience with docs and xlsx documents has been those that are not > very complex are opened in 3.4.2 very accurately and saving back works > well. I recommend that you save and ODF copy just in case. Complex > documents are trickier, it depends on the features used and whether > there are macros. Macros are at best very erratic, often they do not > translate easily into StarBasic.
I consider a simple text box not to be very complex: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34617 Open LO. Make a simple text box with some text in it. Save as an .docx & let us know how that works out for you. -- 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
