On 2012-11-28 19:14, Chris Carlson wrote:
I'm new to this e-mail list, so excuse me if this is something
discussed already.
I've been very pleased with LibreOffice on many fronts. I recommend
it to everyone. As a matter of fact, I use it instead of Word at
every opportunity. At work, though, I use Word because that's what's
installed.
I write a newsletter for the American Legion. Since it was developed
in Word, I use my old student copy of Word 2003 to create it each
month. I have to provide both a .doc and .pdf of the newsletter to
the printers. My trick, since Word 2003 doesn't offer a .pdf output,
is to read the .doc with LibreOffice (3.5) and publish it to .pdf.
For the first time in months, LibreOffice can't seem to recognize the
.doc format. I'm using the same version of Word that I've used for
months. The newsletter is basically the same file, which I copy and
modify for the new month. For whatever reason, LibreOffice tries to
open it as a text file. It initially asks what text encoding it
should use, waits for a long time, and then opens a garbage document.
Is this a known problem? Did I do something to the document that
caused it to be read incorrectly?
Thanks for any ideas on this.
Chris
Hi.
Did you update your version of LO. Possibly this is related to the
thread with subject MS Office MacIntosh to Libre Writer Windows. There
was a bug filed (<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53909>)
and seems to apply to LO > 3.5.4 and LO < 3.6.4.
Steve
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