Paul— I don’t know how meaningful .docx format really is. I use Word for Mac 2008, and occasionally 2011(hate the interface), including OLE with Excel and mail merge. Either format does pretty much the same stuff, so I set the default save to .doc so everyone can open it.
Libre Office for Mac, last time I looked, had problems printing business size envelopes. AOO seems to have overcome that hurdle, making it the preferred OpenSource candidate to replace Word at this time. Pax, Glen On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:56 AM, Paul Heltzel <phelt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Glen. I have installed AOO on a PC, just looking to confirm that > saving as .docx is a feature of LibreOffice but not of OpenOffice. That's > what I'm seeing, along with what I mentioned, that AOO can save, for > example, Word or Excel files as .xml (but I'm not sure why you might want > to, what the Office 2003/xml version means). > > I'm hoping to reach one of the AOO developers. > > Best--Paul > > > > > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Glen Kohler <g...@machead.info> wrote: > >> Paul— >> >> You might consider downloading and installing AOO for research. >> >> 4.1.5 for Mac does not save in .docx. It does save as MS 2003 in .xml. >> >> Regards, >> >> Glen >> >> On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:15 AM, Paul Heltzel <phelt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi-- >>> >>> I'm trying to confirm something for a story for Computerworld, on >>> alternatives to MS Office. >>> >>> In Apache OpenOffice, you can't save as .docx, is that correct? >>> >>> I noticed that this is possible in LibreOffice. >>> >>> In OpenOffice, I attempted to save as Microsoft 2003/XML and was >>> prompted to first download Java. After doing so, my Apache OpenOffice >>> Writer saved with an .xml extension. >>> >>> Can I just confirm that Apache OpenOffice does not write .docx files? >>> And what would be the scenario where someone would prefer to save as >>> Microsoft Word 2003 XML (.xml)? >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Paul >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Paul Heltzel >>> >>> skycurrentmedia.com >>> http://heltzel.pressfolios.com/ >>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-heltzel-9175b61/ >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >>> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Paul Heltzel > > skycurrentmedia.com > http://heltzel.pressfolios.com/ > https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-heltzel-9175b61/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org