Mark Bourne wrote > The .docx format changes slightly with each version of MS Office.
So do the Microsoft Binary (DOC et al.) formats. Major revisions for DOC were on 2009-07-13, 2010-06-07, 2012-01-20, and 2014-07-31. Mark Bourne wrote > For compatibility between MS Office and LibreOffice, the older .doc format > is more reliable. Probably only because of the mechanics of this format (it is effectively a memory dump to file). There have been many recent improvements to LO with respect to supporting OOXML. The level of support may not be equal to that for the MS Binary formats (yet) but it hopefully will be in the not-too-distant future. TDF has partner organisations working on these improvements. List of links to recent (2013-2014) blog posts about improvements here: http://en.libreofficeforum.org/node/7505#comment-34131 Mark Bourne wrote > From my understanding, Office Open XML (OOXML - the format used in docx, > xlsx, and related files) is a > supposedly open standard. i.e. anyone can get the details of how to read > and write files in that format. But that standard allows some data to be > included in an application-specific format, which MS does to make it > easier for themselves to port MS Office to using it. Unfortunately that > means it's not so easy for anyone else to figure out how to read and write > those parts of the file. These compatibility blobs only exist in OOXML Transitional; OOXML Strict essentially eliminates them. Best wishes, Owen. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Table-presented-totally-wrong-tp4121993p4122206.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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
