Hi :) Yes, they got got it accepted as an ISO standard but then never seem quite able to implement the standard as written-up. Each new version of MSO gets it a little bit wrong in some new way, which doesn't get documented so people have to reverse engineer MS's implementation before figuring out how to conform with their implementation. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Dave Liesse <[email protected]> >To: Tom Davies <[email protected]> >Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 20:09 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] converting .odt to .doc > > >Tom, that's not an option in this case. The file has to be uploaded >(via a third party) and will reject an ods file before even looking at it. > >Odd about the xlsx formats changing, since through its shenanigans (I'm >being generously polite with that term) a few years ago Microsoft got it >accepted as an international standard. > >Dave > > >On 8/21/2013 10:46, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> Send them an Ods, the native format for OpenOffice, LibreOffice and >> many others. >> >> Perhaps also send them a Csv. >> >> Always avoid the formats that have the extra X at the end as they keep >> changing with every new release of MS Office such that one version >> sometimes messes up the documents created in another version. >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> *From:* Dave Liesse <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 18:40 >> *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] converting .odt to .doc >> >> I have a similar problem when saving a spreadsheet as .xls or >> .xlsx -- >> the format is not always recognized at the other end. When I have a >> chance to work with the IRS (to whom I'm trying to upload the >> spreadsheet, to report education) and figure out exactly where the >> failure occurs I'll pass the word along here. Their software has >> some >> problem with the .xls version, and won't even recognize the .xlsx >> as a >> spreadsheet. >> >> Dave >> >> >> >> On 8/21/2013 01:44, tamas czovek wrote: >> > Hi, >> > When I convert .odt documents to .doc or .docx the original >> formatting gets >> > messed up with, in .doc, half the footnotes lost sometimes. How >> can I >> > prevent this from happening? I use Ubuntu 12.04 and LibreOffice >> 3.5.7.2. >> > Wishes, >> > Tamas >> >> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> <mailto:[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 >> >> > > >-- >To unsubscribe 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 > > > -- To unsubscribe 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
