Re: [libreoffice-users] docx file formatting question. Using LO 7.0.5.2

2021-05-04 Thread Ianseeks
On Monday, 3 May 2021 17:49:28 BST John Kaufmann wrote: > On 2021-05-03 08:15, Ianseeks wrote: > > ... > > I downloaded a docx file ... where some pages were landscape format in the > > middle of the document. ... She then started editing it and when she got to > > the landscape pages, the landsc

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx file formatting question. Using LO 7.0.5.2

2021-05-03 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2021-05-03 08:15, Ianseeks wrote: ... I downloaded a docx file ... where some pages were landscape format in the middle of the document. ... She then started editing it and when she got to the landscape pages, the landscape format had reverted to portrait and the table on the tried used the

[libreoffice-users] docx file formatting question. Using LO 7.0.5.2

2021-05-03 Thread Ianseeks
HI I downloaded a docx file (no idea what release) for my partner onto a Windows 10 laptop and printed it out successfully where some pages were landscape format in the middle of the document. I saved it its own format as i thought she'd be sending to one of her mates who uses Word. She then s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Docx

2014-01-31 Thread M Henri Day
2014-01-29 Qusai Al Haddad : > Dear Support, > > When liberOffice will support .docx 2010/2013 MS Office document. > > Regards, > > *Qusai A. Al-Haddad > ​Qusai, in my experience LibreOffice does support the versions of .docx in MS Word that people actually use ; hitherto I've never received suc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Docx

2014-01-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Another good question to ask Microsoft is when they will start to (or whether they ever are likely to manage to) support the DocX format as specified in the ISO format which they pushed through. Regards from Tom :) On 30 January 2014 00:29, e-letter wrote: > On 29/01/2014, Qusai Al Haddad

Re: [libreoffice-users] Docx

2014-01-29 Thread e-letter
On 29/01/2014, Qusai Al Haddad wrote: > Dear Support, > > When liberOffice will support .docx 2010/2013 MS Office document. > Please ask m$ when m$o will support 2014 odt document. http://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.libreoffice.org/msg36224.html http://www.mail-archive.com/users@global.l

Re: [libreoffice-users] Docx

2014-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) DocX is supported already. The question really is which version of DocX do you want it to support? Supporting the format that they wrote up as an ISO apparently means it wouldn't work in any version of MS Office. Documents written using MS Office 2007 can't always be opened in MS Office 201

Re: [libreoffice-users] Docx

2014-01-29 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hello, Doesn't it do so already anyway? Regards Heinrich On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:32:08 +0100, Qusai Al Haddad wrote: Dear Support, When liberOffice will support .docx 2010/2013 MS Office document. Regards, *Qusai A. Al-Haddad* Information Security Consultant Manama - Kingdom of Bahrain Ema

[libreoffice-users] Docx

2014-01-29 Thread Qusai Al Haddad
Dear Support, When liberOffice will support .docx 2010/2013 MS Office document. Regards, *Qusai A. Al-Haddad* Information Security Consultant Manama - Kingdom of Bahrain Email: qusai.alhad...@gmail.com Mobile: +973 33931057 , +973 39424387 LinkedIn: http://bh.linkedin.com/in/qusaialhaddad/ Twit

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-11-13 Thread john herron
On 10/26/2013 01:41 AM, Joel Madero wrote: On 10/25/2013 03:22 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: I don't even really know where to begin with this. I haven't enough information to file a bug, really, because what I have is vague, broad. But I have been doing business as a freelance translator for 10 y

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The only way to ensure your DocX documents appear exactly the same on other people's machines is to make sure you use the same OS and the same version of MS Office as they are using. If you deal with a lot of different people and are not certain which versions each of them has then that mean

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-27 Thread Gerald Pechoc
If I sum up the problems with docx documents and with LO in general, best solution is to have a pc with linux and virtual box for running WIN7 and original MS Office. If you earn your money with these docx then you have to adopt your work flow to that. You can not tell your customer to change

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-27 Thread Gerald Pechoc
If I sum up the problems with docx documents and with LO in general, best solution is to have a pc with linux and virtual box for running WIN7 and original MS Office. (a dual core processor and 4GB Ram is enough). If you earn your money with these docx then its on your side to adopt your work

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-26 Thread e-letter
On 25/10/2013, baldwin linguas wrote: > > It's ruining my business. > I'm losing clients, losing money, and I have a family to feed. > And I don't know what to do about it. > OpenOffice won't write to .docx, and LibreOffice messes them up. > Perhaps you should compare the editing process using m$

RE: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-26 Thread David Gast
. Note: Checking embed standard fonts in LO does not solve the problem. Best regards, David From: Gerald Pechoc [fed...@pechoc.eu] Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 15:57 To: ubu...@pechoc.eu; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-26 Thread Kolbjørn Stuestøl
Den 26.10.2013 00:22, skreiv baldwin linguas: Now, suddenly, every time a client sends me a .docx file, I get a complaint when I return their documents that the formatting has changed (tables are different, fonts changed, bullets disappear, or, worse, they can't even open the document, although i

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread Gerald Pechoc
Hi, and you don't have the possibility to send .pdf files to your clients? In this case you are sure that formatting and fonts will be correct. This seem to be very important, from my point of view, especially in the case you have to translate to languages like german, polish, french where

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread Joel Madero
On 10/25/2013 03:22 PM, baldwin linguas wrote: I don't even really know where to begin with this. I haven't enough information to file a bug, really, because what I have is vague, broad. But I have been doing business as a freelance translator for 10 years, using only FREE/OSS, (OmegaT, OpenOffi

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
Dnia 2013-10-25, o godz. 18:22:08 baldwin linguas napisał(a): > Now, suddenly, every time a client sends me a .docx file, I get a > complaint when I return their documents that the formatting has > changed (tables are different, > fonts changed, bullets disappear, or, worse, they can't even open

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread Gerald Pechoc
Hi, and you don't have the possibility to send .pdf files to your clients? In this case you are sure that formatting and fonts will be correct. This seem to be very important, from my point of view, especially in the case you have to translate to languages like german, polish, french where you

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread Paul
>From what I gather, even MS Word still has some problems with docx, and LO is likely to be somewhat buggy with it for the foreseeable future. Until MS stops "developing" it so that it can become a fixed format (and not a moving target), or makes it a truly open standard, LO is likely to be playing

[libreoffice-users] docx problems

2013-10-25 Thread baldwin linguas
I don't even really know where to begin with this. I haven't enough information to file a bug, really, because what I have is vague, broad. But I have been doing business as a freelance translator for 10 years, using only FREE/OSS, (OmegaT, OpenOffice, etc., on Debian GNU/Linux) without any major

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Tom Davies
To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 26 August 2013, 21:20 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer Please learn how to quote/reply... Your reply was indistinguishable from the quoted text (of mine)... On 2013-08-26 3:49 PM, Satish Srivastava wrote

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Tom Davies
:)  From: Gordon Burgess-Parker To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 26 August 2013, 21:39 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer On 26/08/13 21:37, Jay Lozier wrote: > Or refuse to buy or use any version of

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 26/08/13 21:37, Jay Lozier wrote: > Or refuse to buy or use any version of MSO until MS correctly uses odf > formats as default formats. Certainly in Office 2010 you have the option to set ODF as the default document type, and I believe that in Office 2013/365 they've fixed the ODS>Excel "bug

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Jay Lozier
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:42:32 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-26 12:49 PM, saraysri . wrote: So please give me solution for this because users have multiple fils. they can not save as all files in .doc formats. Have everyone buy Microsoft Office 2013. Seriously. This is the only real

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 26/08/13 21:23, V Stuart Foote wrote: > Gordon, > > Ignoring. But you might like to bookmark this handy link: > > http://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/ > > When the development RC2 version is processed, it becomes to "release" > notation. > > So folks using 4.0.5

RE: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread V Stuart Foote
, or 4.1.0 is using the code base of 4.1.0.4--the extra RC builds were needed at 4.1.0 Stuart > -Original Message- > From: Gordon Burgess-Parker [mailto:gbpli...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 3:18 PM > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Subject: Re: [libr

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Tanstaafl
Please learn how to quote/reply... Your reply was indistinguishable from the quoted text (of mine)... On 2013-08-26 3:49 PM, Satish Srivastava wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-08-26 12:49 PM, saraysri . wrote: So please give me solution for this because u

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 26/08/13 21:15, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 26/08/13 19:12, Tom Davies wrote: > >> >> i would still tend to go with the 4.0.5 because that 3rd digit, the .5, is >> roughly the equivalent of "Service Pack 5". The 4.1.0 has no service packs. >> The 4.1.1 has 1. So the 4.0.5 is more sta

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 26/08/13 19:12, Tom Davies wrote: > > i would still tend to go with the 4.0.5 because that 3rd digit, the .5, is > roughly the equivalent of "Service Pack 5". The 4.1.0 has no service packs. > The 4.1.1 has 1. So the 4.0.5 is more stable and less likely to have > unpleasant unexpected su

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Satish Srivastava
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:12 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-26 12:49 PM, saraysri . wrote: > >> So please give me solution for this because users have multiple fils. they >> can not save as all files in .doc formats. >> > > Have everyone buy Microsoft Office 2013. > > Seriously. This is the o

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-08-26 12:49 PM, saraysri . wrote: So please give me solution for this because users have multiple fils. they can not save as all files in .doc formats. Have everyone buy Microsoft Office 2013. Seriously. This is the only real 'solution' that you can implement right now. As has been

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Tom Davies
ay, 26 August 2013, 18:34 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer On 26/08/2013 at 17:23, Satish Srivastava wrote: > So please give any solution for this. There are three possible solutions: - create good bug report (providing example file and

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 26/08/2013 at 17:23, Satish Srivastava wrote: > So please give any solution for this. There are three possible solutions: - create good bug report (providing example file and image showing how it should look like) and hope it will get fixed in future version - hire someone to fix this issue

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Tom Davies
pen.  Regards from Tom :)  From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 26 August 2013, 17:08 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer To restate Tom's info If you sa

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread saraysri .
; files in Excel but 2013 and 365 can. > > > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > > > > > > > > > From: Satish Srivastava > > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > > Sent: Monday, 26 August 2013, 16:23

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
2010, 2013 or 365 then they can open documents you send them in > Odt format. With 2010 or 2007 they probably can't open Ods files in Excel > but 2013 and 365 can. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > ________ > From: Satish S

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Tom Davies
Excel but 2013 and 365 can.  Regards from Tom :)  From: Satish Srivastava To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 26 August 2013, 16:23 Subject: [libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer Dear Friends, I am facing a issue in open

[libreoffice-users] .docx file format disturb in libreoffice 4.0 Writer

2013-08-26 Thread Satish Srivastava
Dear Friends, I am facing a issue in open office migration from microsoft office. when i am trying to open .docx file it is opening but header & format disturb means not properly. So please give any solution for this. Thanks & regards Satish -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@glob

Re: [libreoffice-users] Docx export issues

2013-04-08 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
e nowadays.  Writer is more of > a proper desktop publishing package than Word and even beats Publisher > sometimes.  > > Regards from > Tom :)  > > > > > From: Leonardo M. Ramé > >To: LibreOffice Users Help > >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Docx export issues

2013-04-08 Thread Tom Davies
.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Leonardo M. Ramé >To: LibreOffice Users Help >Sent: Monday, 8 April 2013, 15:57 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Docx export issues > >Hi, I'm using libreoffice 4.0.2 and I'm receiving complaints from

[libreoffice-users] Docx export issues

2013-04-08 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I'm using libreoffice 4.0.2 and I'm receiving complaints from Word 2007 users about wrongly placed images in my documents, but they look ok in Libreoffice's Write. Are there some guidelines I can follow to avoid problems between Libreoffice Write and Word .docx documents containing images?. -

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-21 Thread Mieszko Kaczmarczyk
Uytkownik upscope napisa: What I am trying to do is open the .docx document, and then save it as odt. This works fine is original doc is all text. But when graphics ixist in document and get relocated, missed etc, then its hard to get a proper document. It seems to work better in LO 3.6.3 than i

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread Mieszko Kaczmarczyk
Uytkownik Tom Davies napisa: Perhaps install 3.6.3 alongside 4.0.0 or perhaps just stick with the more stable branch for a bit longer and try the 4.0.x a bit later?+1From my side the LO ver 4.0 is still to buggy and cannot be used daily.--Mieszko KaczmarczykAdministrator ITWetzel Sp. z o.o.

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread Doug
On 02/20/2013 01:58 PM, upscope wrote: On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:30:26 PM Doug wrote: On 02/20/2013 11:53 AM, upscope wrote: On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:45:19 AM Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) DocX is really bad for sharing with people unless you be be fairly certain they are using th

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread upscope
On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:30:26 PM Doug wrote: > On 02/20/2013 11:53 AM, upscope wrote: > > On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:45:19 AM Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) > >> DocX is really bad for sharing with people unless you be be fairly > >> certain > >> they are using the same version of

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
ay, 20 February 2013, 17:51 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening >correctly > >On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 05:03:36 PM Brian Barker wrote: >> At 08:53 20/02/2013 -0800, you wrote: >> >What I am trying to do is open the .docx document, and

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread upscope
On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 05:03:36 PM Brian Barker wrote: > At 08:53 20/02/2013 -0800, you wrote: > >What I am trying to do is open the .docx document, and then save it as odt. > > Can you get to a copy of Microsoft Word, even temporarily - perhaps > at work, at your educational establishmen

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread Doug
On 02/20/2013 11:53 AM, upscope wrote: On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:45:19 AM Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) DocX is really bad for sharing with people unless you be be fairly certain they are using the same version of MS Office on the same version of Windows. The older MS format, Doc for 97/2000

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
: upscope >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 16:53 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening >correctly > >On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:45:19 AM Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> DocX is really

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread upscope
> > > > From: e-letter > > > >To: upscope > >Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org > >Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 10:14 > >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening > >correctly&

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread upscope
On Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:14:21 PM e-letter wrote: > On 19/02/2013, upscope wrote: > > Both of the above LO versions have the problem. I can open a .docx > > document > > if > > it is all text with no problems. If the document like a new letter I get > > in > > > > .docx format is opened

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Davies
: Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 10:14 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening >correctly > >On 19/02/2013, upscope wrote: >> >> Both of the above LO versions have the problem. I can open a .docx document >> if >> it is all text

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-20 Thread e-letter
On 19/02/2013, upscope wrote: > > Both of the above LO versions have the problem. I can open a .docx document > if > it is all text with no problems. If the document like a new letter I get in > > .docx format is opened the graphics are missing, or partically there or off > > set from where they s

[libreoffice-users] .docx documents with graphic, not opening correctly

2013-02-18 Thread upscope
LibreOffice: Version 4.0.0.3 (Build ID: 400m0(Build:103)) released by SUSE LibreOffice: Version 4.0.0.3 (Build ID: 7545bee9c2a0782548772a21bc84a9dcc583b89) releases by TDF. I have both versions above installed. see signature for OS and KDE versions, both with latest updates. Both of the above L

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx file writer 3.6.0

2012-09-02 Thread Paolo Debortoli
the document was sent to me by email from the office From: anne-ology To: Paolo Debortoli Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, September 2, 2012 1:48 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] docx file writer 3.6.0       Is there some reason you&#x

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx file writer 3.6.0

2012-09-01 Thread anne-ology
Is there some reason you're using .docx rather than .doc?; if not, then you might try 'saving as' .doc then opening with LO. On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Paolo Debortoli wrote: hi. I have a .docx file created with ms word, but when I try to open it > with libreoffice writer

[libreoffice-users] docx file writer 3.6.0

2012-09-01 Thread Paolo Debortoli
hi. I have a .docx file created with ms word, but when I try to open it with libreoffice writer 3.6.0  (on linux ubuntu)   it crashes and closes immediately without showing anything...  I don't know why -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? ht

Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-13 Thread James Knott
ideas as "feature requests" http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport They might not get worked on but someone might get interested and add it. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 13/5/12, Steve Edmonds wrote: From: Steve Edmonds Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-13 Thread Tom Davies
ubject: Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 13 May, 2012, 7:47 Had that too, and Mesa that had some functionality generally still not found today. On 2012-05-12 23:31, James Knott wrote: > Steve Edmonds wrote: >> I was using star office on OS/2 15 years a

Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-12 Thread Steve Edmonds
Had that too, and Mesa that had some functionality generally still not found today. On 2012-05-12 23:31, James Knott wrote: Steve Edmonds wrote: I was using star office on OS/2 15 years ago. While I had Star Office, I used Describe back then. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: us

Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-12 Thread James Knott
Steve Edmonds wrote: I was using star office on OS/2 15 years ago. While I had Star Office, I used Describe back then. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guideline

Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-11 Thread The Wolfkin
wow... news to me. I discovered the powerpoint viewer years ago but the headaches I could have saved if I had known there was a doc viewer -- Wolfkin http://about.me/wolfkin On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:01 PM, James Knott wrote: > The Wolfkin wrote: > >> wait.. ALL of them have viewers now

Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-11 Thread Steve Edmonds
I was using star office on OS/2 15 years ago. On 2012-05-12 13:01, James Knott wrote: The Wolfkin wrote: wait.. ALL of them have viewers now? They've been around for years. I was using a Word viewer on OS/2 about 15 years ago. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@globa

Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-11 Thread James Knott
The Wolfkin wrote: wait.. ALL of them have viewers now? They've been around for years. I was using a Word viewer on OS/2 about 15 years ago. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsub

Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-11 Thread The Wolfkin
wait.. ALL of them have viewers now? I knew about the PP viewer but having a word viewer and excel viewer would be fantastic... thanks guy -- Wolfkin http://about.me/wolfkin On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:42 PM, James Knott wrote: > Something that may come in handy are the free Word, Excel and P

Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-11 Thread Tom Davies
on Xp and 2010 on Win7.  So i think it's well worth trying just in case it does work well Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 11/5/12, James Knott wrote: From: James Knott Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Friday, 11 May, 2012, 2:42 The Wolfkin wr

Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-10 Thread James Knott
The Wolfkin wrote: I'm pretty good at people and I know full and well that they don't have the skill to change it to .doc or the patience for me to explain why. I'm like an inverse human. Rather than adapting my environment to suit myself. I expend most of my energy to adapt my practices to suit

Re: [libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-10 Thread The Wolfkin
I'm pretty good at people and I know full and well that they don't have the skill to change it to .doc or the patience for me to explain why. I'm like an inverse human. Rather than adapting my environment to suit myself. I expend most of my energy to adapt my practices to suit my environment. If I

[libreoffice-users] DocX

2012-05-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 I find it a total pita too.  Do you get blank looks from people when you ask them to send in a different format?  Do you find people treat you with suspicion or treat you as being deliberately difficult?  Do you get blamed when their formats turn out to appear broken when viewed on any

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx trouble (solved??)

2011-11-28 Thread Jay Lozier
On 11/28/2011 12:27 PM, John D. Herron wrote: On 11/27/2011 09:32 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: John On 11/27/2011 01:15 PM, John D. Herron wrote: hi. i'm working on a standalone ubuntu 11.04 box (no Windows on it!) with LibreOffice 3.3.4 OOO330m19 (Build:401)... -- snip -- john I try to double sa

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx trouble (solved??)

2011-11-28 Thread John D. Herron
On 11/27/2011 09:32 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: John On 11/27/2011 01:15 PM, John D. Herron wrote: hi. i'm working on a standalone ubuntu 11.04 box (no Windows on it!) with LibreOffice 3.3.4 OOO330m19 (Build:401)... -- snip -- john I try to double save important files with my working copy being O

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx trouble

2011-11-28 Thread Tanstaafl
@e-letter Your continued tirades in this vein are getting old... I have an idea? Why don't you just stfu about it. On 2011-11-28 4:59 AM, e-letter wrote: On 27/11/2011, John D. Herron wrote: hi. i'm working on a standalone ubuntu 11.04 box (no Windows on it!) with LibreOffice 3.3.4 OOO330m1

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx trouble

2011-11-28 Thread e-letter
On 27/11/2011, John D. Herron wrote: > hi. i'm working on a standalone ubuntu 11.04 box (no Windows on it!) > with LibreOffice 3.3.4 OOO330m19 (Build:401). > Please consider a cost benefit analysis; if the value of your clients is significant, buy a cheap computer with m$o and use that whenever a

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx trouble

2011-11-27 Thread John D. Herron
On 11/27/2011 09:32 PM, Jay Lozier wrote: John On 11/27/2011 01:15 PM, John D. Herron wrote: hi. i'm working on a standalone ubuntu 11.04 box (no Windows on it!) with LibreOffice 3.3.4 OOO330m19 (Build:401). Last week I sent a client a .doc file, which he reviewed (Edit -> Show) and then r

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx trouble

2011-11-27 Thread Jay Lozier
John On 11/27/2011 01:15 PM, John D. Herron wrote: hi. i'm working on a standalone ubuntu 11.04 box (no Windows on it!) with LibreOffice 3.3.4 OOO330m19 (Build:401). Last week I sent a client a .doc file, which he reviewed (Edit -> Show) and then returned to me for further comments. I in turn

[libreoffice-users] .docx trouble

2011-11-27 Thread John D. Herron
hi. i'm working on a standalone ubuntu 11.04 box (no Windows on it!) with LibreOffice 3.3.4 OOO330m19 (Build:401). Last week I sent a client a .doc file, which he reviewed (Edit -> Show) and then returned to me for further comments. I in turn added comments and corrections to it in the same fashi

Re: Good work chap :) Re: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not open

2011-11-03 Thread ESChamp
m: ESChamp > > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will > > not open > > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > > Date: Thursday, 3 November, 2011, 16:39 > > Got an email this morning from MobiSystems, the folks who wrote Office >

Good work chap :) Re: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not open

2011-11-03 Thread Tom Davies
WoH!! :) I thought they might be helpful but i didn't realise they would start on it so soon! Good work chap Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 3/11/11, ESChamp wrote: > From: ESChamp > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not > op

Re: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not open

2011-11-03 Thread ESChamp
Got an email this morning from MobiSystems, the folks who wrote Office Suite Pro, that said that they have been able to duplicate the problem and will start working on a fix!! :-) Pete Holsberg has written on 10/28/2011 12:53 PM: > Hi, > > I created a file with the Android app "Office Suite Pro" a

Re: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not open

2011-10-30 Thread e-letter
Off-topic, but this shows the mistake of not developing LO for mobile devices; reminded me of a previous post: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss@documentfoundation.org/msg02649.html. It proves the diversion of discussion of m$ from the bigger objective; that the original posters are writing to th

RE: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not open

2011-10-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
milton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 10:18 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not open Hi Pete, When LO/OOo pops up a text filter it is usually because the format of the incoming file is not recogn

Re: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not open

2011-10-29 Thread ESChamp
e-letter has written on 10/29/2011 5:08 AM: > On 28/10/2011, Pete Holsberg wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I created a file with the Android app "Office Suite Pro" and I cannot > > open it with Libre Writer. > > > > Does this program 'office suite pro' produce odt files? NO. > If the answer is yes, this

RE: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not open

2011-10-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
2011 09:53 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not open Hi, I created a file with the Android app "Office Suite Pro" and I cannot open it with Libre Writer. It pops up a "filter" menu with types of files in

Re: [libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not open

2011-10-29 Thread e-letter
On 28/10/2011, Pete Holsberg wrote: > Hi, > > I created a file with the Android app "Office Suite Pro" and I cannot > open it with Libre Writer. > Does this program 'office suite pro' produce odt files? If the answer is yes, this is the correct mailing list to report errors with the _native_ odf

[libreoffice-users] DOCX file from Android Office Suite will not open

2011-10-28 Thread Pete Holsberg
Hi, I created a file with the Android app "Office Suite Pro" and I cannot open it with Libre Writer. It pops up a "filter" menu with types of files in randow order (can I file a bug report or a fix request on that?) and none of them are "Windows Office 2010 docx file". FWIW, the first 10 bytes o

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx format troubles

2011-09-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Easy tiger!  No need to be so hostile!  Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 15/9/11, e-letter wrote: From: e-letter Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] docx format troubles To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 15 September, 2011, 15:31 On 15/09/2011, Guy Voets wrote: > What

Re: [libreoffice-users] docx format troubles

2011-09-15 Thread e-letter
On 15/09/2011, Guy Voets wrote: > What can I do when this happens again? You should send in odf and tell your recipient to use LO. If the recipient cannot use LO you should buy m$ and continue to use m$ formats. Then when there are compatibility issues, you write to m$ technical support. Do you

[libreoffice-users] docx format troubles

2011-09-15 Thread Guy Voets
Hi, I made a translation of a docx file. Just copied and pasted 'special/without formatting' the translated text over each segment of the original text, in order to keep the initial formatting. The file format of the document was docx, and I never changed that -as far as I know at least, I'm aware

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-09 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 04:48, Matthew Young wrote: > On 05/09/2011 08:12 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: >> On 2011-05-10 11:37, Tom Davies wrote: >>> On 9/05/11 8:54 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >>> [...] [...] > [...] >> Are you suggesting that LO/OOo will not display images in a text box, >

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-09 Thread Matthew Young
On 05/09/2011 08:12 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2011-05-10 11:37, Tom Davies wrote: From: Steve Edmonds To: users@libreoffice.org; tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Sent: Mon, 9 May, 2011 20:51:44 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read On 9/05

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-09 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2011-05-10 11:37, Tom Davies wrote: > > > > > > From: Steve Edmonds > To: users@libreoffice.org; tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk > Sent: Mon, 9 May, 2011 20:51:44 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read > > &g

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
From: Steve Edmonds To: users@libreoffice.org; tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Sent: Mon, 9 May, 2011 20:51:44 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read On 9/05/11 8:54 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > >> >>> Are you suggesting that

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-09 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 9/05/11 8:54 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Are you suggesting that LO/OOo will not display images in a text box, but that is a valid MSO docx feature? It would appear so. Stupid or not, that is how people are creating documents I just tried google docs with my faulty .docx. Google .docx

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
> >> Are you suggesting that LO/OOo will not display images in a text box, >> but that is a valid MSO docx feature? >> > It would appear so. > > >> Stupid or not, that is how people are creating >> documents >> > > I just tried google docs with my faulty .docx. Google .docx imports

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-08 Thread Steve Edmonds
dge of complex issues in document > creation but bosses have a way of ignoring their skills. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > From: Gordon Burgess-Parker > To: users@libreoffice.org > Sent: Thu, 5 May, 2011 8:34:41 > Subject: Re

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-05 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 05/05/2011 14:52, Joep L. Blom wrote: I'm impressed by all the comment on a not very important file. I don't know if the originators (my acquaintances) did what some thought namely putting all information within a text-box but I doubt it as they are not very computer literate. Well that's

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 16:52, Joep L. Blom wrote: > I'm impressed by all the comment on a not very important file. I don't know > if the originators (my acquaintances) did what some thought namely putting > all information within a text-box but I doubt it as they are not very > computer literate.

Re: [libreoffice-users] .docx can't be read

2011-05-05 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 05/05/11 11:57, TomW wrote: On 2011-05-05 03:08, Dotan Cohen wrote: I was able to open and display the file only on office.live.com. No Linux-based software (LO, OOo, Abiword, Kword) could handle it. Here is the OOo bug, as the LO bugtracker is not working at the moment: http://openoffice.or

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