On 06/03/2012 06:37 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > The speculative responses to this suggestion are very amusing. > > I tried it. After all, computing is an empirical science [;<). > > Here is what happened when I renamed a .xls to .xlsx: > > "Excel [2010] cannot open the file '<longname>.xlsx' > because the file format or file extension is not valid. > Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that the > file extension matches the format of the file." > > LibreOffice 3.3.2 Calc was perfectly happy to open the file correctly as the > .xls that it actually is. > > I renamed a .doc to .docx and got this message from Word 2010: > > "Word cannot open the file because the file format does not > match the file extension. (\\Whs\...Spec9-copy.docx)" > > LibreOffice 3.3.2 Writer was also successful in importing the file without > complaint. > > I leave renaming .ppt to .pptx as an exercise. > > - Dennis > > Interesting, Excel and Word get confused by the change but Writer and Calc do not. I do not advocate changing file extensions. I would have thought the opposite would occur, MSO no problem and LO confused. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Säger [mailto:ville...@t-online.de] > Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2012 13:04 > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is 3.5.4 ready for business users? > > Am 03.06.2012 20:14, Felmon Davis wrote: >> I am curious: what happens if one just changes the file extension from >> .doc to .docx? >> >> F. >> >> > Brilliant idea! This way you get much better results while the WinWord > user will not notice any difference at all. > >
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