On 05/11/2012 10:44 AM, Jay Lozier wrote:
On 05/11/2012 10:01 AM, Andreas Säger wrote:
Am 11.05.2012 10:47, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Tom,
Thanks for the quick reply. I probably wasn't clear enough about
the goal being that any users added to the machines (post facto)
would get MS
default formats without doing (knowing how to do) anything. (I was
recently excoriated by a client who had difficulty because her
customers couldn't open the .odt's LOo gave her....)
Thanks again,
ultra
It is somewhere in the options but you must not do that. Always edit
your documents in the native ODF format (odt, ods, odp etc) in order
to get most of the software and the best conversion results.
Then you call menu:File>Send>"Document As PDF" and everybody will be
able to read an exact virtual print of your document since everybody
has some PDF reading software on any computer platform.
*If and only if* you need to co-edit some document with users of
Microsoft Office you call menu:File>Send>"Document AS MS ..." which
keeps your ODF document while attaching a MS version to an email.
Next time you get mailed the next version of some MS file open that
file and save your copy in native ODF in your own working directory.
In this scenario you have to strictly avoid the new OOXML document
formats (docx, xlsx and pptx). LibreOffice stores well formed
documents in the older doc/xls/ppt formats while these formats are
fully supported by MS office. The conversion to doc/xls/ppt works
best when it is done in one go. Working in foreign file formats
(saving as doc every few minutes) may cumulate conversion flaws.
Hope this helps.
I think the problem is the users do not understand "Save As" will
allow them to save in different format. Thus the problem of file
default file settings for LO with some users. I have worked with
people who have never understood what "Save As" does in any program
not just LO. Thus they have no idea that are different file formats
for the same type of file (document, photo, video, audio, etc.). Thus
setting LO (or any other application) to a preferred setting for these
users must done even if it is not the best practice.
I know this is not a popular opinion with certain folks, but I believe
you should save ALL documents in either .doc or .rtf format. Why keep
files in a
format most people can't read? Just because Microsoft invented it is no
reason not to use it. You use their fonts, don't you?
--doug
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