Try the latest version that is available and also try LibreOffice (www.*libreoffice*.org) There have been numerous changes made since the fork to LibreOffice.
FWIW, I regularly use LibreOffice 3.3.4 on my Fedora system to open received .docx files for my wife and save them in Word97 .doc files so she can edit them. She has been successful sharing these with colleagues. She uses the equation editor, but not the change tracking features you mention. I think investigation would be worth your time. ~~R On 02/01/2012 09:03 AM, j...@sdf.org wrote: > Greetings PLUGers, > I'm trying to help out a first-time author using OOo Writer 3.2.0 on Ubuntu > 10.4 who needs to collaborate with a book editor using MS Word, probably > the 2007 version on Windows 7. Ideally, the book editor would be using > the "Record Changes" feature in Word, then forwarding it back for the author > to run "Edit>Accept or Reject Changes" on. Probably several rounds of this > sort of thing on an approx. 400 page book. Alternately, it appears both > programs can also merge differences via the "Compare Files" feature which > avoids having to deal with externally-generated "diffs" as with "Record > Changes". > > Anyways, my simple single page tests using the .rtf format were a mixed > bag, sometimes resulting in file corruption. The .doc format seems to be > more robust over several rounds of changes. However, there are several > Word versions available under "File>Save As>File Type" and I'm wondering > which is most likely to be best for this project? > > OOo "Save As>File Type" choices: > > MS Word 6.0 (.doc) > MS Word 95 (.doc) > MS Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) > MS Word 2003 (.xml) > MS Word 2007 (.docx) ## I think this is read-only so a non-starter > > I've not tested OpenDocument Text (.fodt) or DocBook (.xml). > > I am aware of the ODF Converter module for MS Office however it didn't > perform well in my tests which featured frequent MS Word (earlier 2000 > version) crashes whenever an .odt file was opened. > > My guess is MS Word 97/2000/XP is the best candidate but I'd like to get > some real-world feedback before committing. > > Regards, > > Jeff W > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
