---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sandy Harris <[email protected]> Date: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to edit MS doc(x) files without breaking it for MS? To: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <[email protected]>
I have used O-O to edit dozens of documents created with MS-Word, and returned the output to people who used Word to read them. I also edited many Latex files, receiving them as plain text (though often with Chinese comments) and sending them back as .doc files because I wanted changes shown. These were computer science journal or conference papers, 5-20K words with plenty of math, tables, graphs, diagrams ... and often complex multi-column formatting. I always had whatever was current in Ubuntu, from mid-2010 to late 2012. They had various versions of Word, mostly Chinese but the docs I dealt with were in English. Mostly, it worked, but there were exceptions. O-O or L-O fairly often had trouble with .docx files, anything from just messing up the format to two that crashed O-O whenever it tried to open them. Usually just going to a Windows box and saving it as .doc was enough that then I could edit it on the Linux box with O-O, but not always. Some of the multi-column formats, even in .doc files, were messed up on O-O. Many of my comments, created on O-O, sent to a student using Chinese Windows then back to me for a second editing pass, were messed up when I got them back, lots of illegible characters shown as odd symbols. -- 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
