Hi :) I suspect that a lot of other programs will also continue to support Doc and as far as possible Rtf too but such files will become increasingly difficult over the longer-term.
It is time to start moving towards Odt for longer-term storage. Even MSO supports Odt now and that format is implemented pretty much exactly as documented making it more of a longer-term prospect for anyone that wants to read their own documents in a decade or so. Doc is possibly the best for most collaborative work right now but Odt will probably take over that role too. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Girvin R. Herr <girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net> >To: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> >Cc: Rogier F. van Vlissingen <vlisc...@gmail.com>; >"users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> >Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 23:36 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - comments in >.doc > > >Whew! That eases my mind. >The only problem is that when MSO no longer supports .doc format as an >option, then MSO users will no longer have that interchange standard >format and we will be at the mercy of whatever proprietary format M$ >chooses - again. I am sure that is by design. >Thanks. >Girvin Herr > > > >On 08/13/2013 11:30 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> Oops, no i meant the Doc format compatibility is kinda fixed now and >> can be gently improved on without worrying about what MS are going to >> do to it. The Doc is safe. >> >> It's only DocX that is constantly changing to the point where being >> more compatible with one version of MSO seems to mean being less >> compatible with another. But even there, maybe it is possible to be >> more compatible with all of them? It's often a LibreOffice or >> OpenOffice users in the office that helps people using different >> versions of MSO to arrive at something both of them can read happily. >> >> Rogier did get me worried for a moment that maybe Doc was not working >> quite as well as i hoped but then i realised it's more likely to be >> some sort of user-error by one or more of his colleagues. I find i >> suffer from user error quite a bit myself so i can easily imagine how >> it happens. >> >> I suspect that LO will keep supporting Doc long after MS drop it >> completely themselves and i don't think that is likely to happen any >> time soon. >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* Girvin R. Herr <girvin.h...@sbcglobal.net> >> *To:* Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> >> *Cc:* Rogier F. van Vlissingen <vlisc...@gmail.com>; >> "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 18:53 >> *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - >> comments in .doc >> >> >> On 08/13/2013 05:27 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> > Hi :) >> > It's quite likely. A bug-report is a good idea. An example file >> might help. >> > >> > Btw i assume your MSO users have stuck with some ancient version >> of MSO, such as 2007 or something? I think the compatibility with >> 2013 is better and that is likely to create problems with >> compatibility with older versions of MSO. >> This implication concerns me! If LO is going to drop .doc as a >> standard, then my advice to others to use .doc instead of .docx as a >> common interchange standard is in jeopardy. I hope LO never drops >> .doc >> as a standard. That said, I had to open a .docx form I received the >> other week and LO opened it fine, with the exception of the usual >> font >> size problems that ran text off the right margin. That was easily >> fixed >> by changing the font size. >> Regards. >> Girvin Herr >> >> > >> > Are you sure it's .Doc rather than .DocX that is causing the >> problem? Most MSO users have no idea how to save in anything >> other than DocX so it's FAR more likely they are sending you DocX >> files and not even realising it or even believing they are sending >> Doc because they just don't really know what they are using and >> just jumping on the last name they vaguely recognise. Windows >> tries to hide the endings so they really don't know what they are >> using most of the time. >> > >> > Doc itself is being deprecated in order to push people into >> using the newer DocX and thus forcing people to buy newer versions >> of MSO even if it's to do exactly the same work that MSO 2003 and >> earlier could do. >> > Regards from >> > Tom :) >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: Rogier F. van Vlissingen <vlisc...@gmail.com >> <mailto:vlisc...@gmail.com>> >> >> To: users@global.libreoffice.org >> <mailto:users@global.libreoffice.org> >> >> Sent: Tuesday, 13 August 2013, 12:27 >> >> Subject: [libreoffice-users] MS file compatibility in 4.0+ - >> comments in .doc >> >> >> >> >> >> Ever since 4.0 I have had increasing problems with file >> compatibility with >> >> MSO... >> >> >> >> Currently I am working on a project with MSO users and when I >> open a .doc >> >> which contains any comments, what happens is the last character >> BEFORE the >> >> comment anchor is reduced in font size, and therefore when you >> delete the >> >> comment, you now have to go into the text to fix the font size. >> >> >> >> Anyone had the same? I think it's time for a bug report. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> *Rogier Fentener van Vlissingen <http://viz.me/vliscony/t/7>* >> >> *About Me* <http://about.me/vliscony> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: >> users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >> <mailto:unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >> <mailto:unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org> >> 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 >> >> > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >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 > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org 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
