Hi Mark an others like Tom, first of all there seams to be a misunderstanding. I meant with template a guide given by the teacher to me, as a layout the teachers expect the results will have. So not the technical term for it, it's just a document in the docx format.
second I see myself since two weeks now in an university environement with all new things, new people I meet and a lot of impressions. And one of the things I have to deal with is that they all work on microsoft desktops and microsoft office software. And I got a lot documents I have to read, and write a lot of papers, and with a lot of them a template (see above) is provided. I ran into problems when the template (yes in docx) format is not read properly, and that's why I did not get the results right. And yes, I think "LibreOffice is useless because it can't fully understand a format defined by a private company". You can publish about, go to court to start a trial against that private company, but that is useless. It's the simple reality, that almost everyone is using their software. Nonetheless, I will do the following: a. whenever I can I will provide the results in PDF format. But that won't solve the problem when LibreOffice does not read the tables good in the first place. b. what should I ask the institute what format is best? I've understood that the ODF format is not supported by MS Office. What then? I already spoke to several people about the use of english terms, and they are used a lot on the university. I do not have a problem with that, but I'm living in the Netherlands, and everyone should speak and write dutch. But I think I'm losing that battle also. And I have to use all of my energy for my work for the university.... c. I will provide a bug report. With stripped data. I really think that the importing and exporting "foreign" formats like docx, and especially the different versions of it, is very important. You speak about different versions. I know with Samba, the project leaders are provided the latest details from microsoft about the different versions SMB2, 2.1 and 3 to get maximal compatibility. Isn't that possible with their docx format? Stef Bon -- 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
