Hi :) Making a stand and using Save As to convert documents from DocX to Doc also pleases users still stuck on older versions of MS Word as it saves them the expense of "upgrading" to 2007 or 2010 and the resulting retraining costs to use the 'lovely' ribbon-bar.
MS carefully lobbied to have the DocX given ISO standards status but none of their products actually use that standard properly in their 2007 or their 2010 despite using the same name. This is reminiscent of the whole Rtf issue which resulted in court-cases that MS eventually lost or settled out of court or something. LibreOffice devs are busily trying to use the different formats used by MS Office 2007 and 2010 on their various platforms (slightly different for each apparently) but that is involving rewriting to make the implementation less like the ISO standard. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 27/3/12, Andreas Säger <[email protected]> wrote: From: Andreas Säger <[email protected]> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice-created Word document won't open normally in Windows Vista To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 27 March, 2012, 14:50 Am 27.03.2012 15:00, kd5 wrote: > LibreOffice works great with Windows XP. If I create a document using > LibreOffice, 'Save As' Word 2007/2010 .docx, then go to My Documents and > double-click on the saved document, LibreOffice Writer will open the > document perfectly. > Please, please, please! Never ever save as docx. This file format does not work with anything but WinWord. "OOXML" had been designed to fight the ODF standard with something absurdly complex with "open" and "office" in the name. Therefore these file formats should be ignored entirely. As long as WinWord supports .doc, there can not be any technical reason why a third party application should write .docx as long it is able to write .doc fairly well. -- 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
