Hi,
I got a template.docx of my education institution, and tried to open
it using LibreOffice.
I found out too late - after I sent it, I got comments of receiver - that writer
did show the table totally wrong.
Until now I was convinced LibreOffice is a good alternative for MS
Office, but I doubt
Stef Bon wrote:
Hi,
I got a template.docx of my education institution, and tried to open
it using LibreOffice.
I found out too late - after I sent it, I got comments of receiver - that writer
did show the table totally wrong.
The .docx format changes slightly with each version of MS Office. Ev
Hello Stef
Are you suggesting that you are standardizing on LibreOffice Templates
or Microsoft Word Templates.
Templates are unique to each system.
Did you save your LibreOffice Writer document to a Microsoft Word format?
If PDF is ok, you could "export as pdf" and send that.
If the person yo
Hi :)
Both Google docs and LibreOffice are consistent with each other and any
version of either on any platform. Likewise with OpenOffice,
Calligra/KOffice, Lotus Symphony and almost all others. Even newer
documents prepared by the latest releases of those can usually be read by
older versions of
On 09/11/2014 02:15 PM, Stef Bon wrote:
I got a template.docx of my education institution, and tried to open
it using LibreOffice.
I found out too late - after I sent it, I got comments of receiver - that writer
did show the table totally wrong.
I have seen that some tables do not show proper sp
On 11-9-2014 20:15, Stef Bon wrote:
Hi,
I got a template.docx of my education institution, and tried to open
it using LibreOffice.
Templates in MS-Word are not stored with the extension '.docx'
I found out too late - after I sent it, I got comments of receiver - that writer
did show the tab
On 12-9-2014 17:15, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
In common usage people mean something quite different when they say
"template". Proper templates, as we would use the term, are quite
different and would probably be more useful to them.
Many people have no idea what a real template is so they just ma
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
Stef Bon wrote:
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.
Yes, I real
On 12-9-2014 20:28, Stef Bon wrote:
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 l
Hi all,
Thanks a lot for your reactions and support.
I will add two things to my actions list, although I do not promise
anything. I need my time.
a. try to contact student organisations/university to ask them to
provide more options.
Brian Barker suugested I do convert it first at the universi
At 22:30 12/09/2014 +0200, Stef Bon wrote:
Brian Barker suggested I do convert it first at the university to a
format I use (ODF). That's not an option.
No, I didn't suggest that! I suggested using Microsoft Word (where
you have it at the university) to save a copy of your .docx as PDF.
And I
Hi :)
For sharing and editing the Doc format is best. Errr, for spreadsheets
xls, for presentations ppt.
Everyone seems to be able to use them perfectly fine. It's an editable
format so the text re-flows depending on the settings of whichever machine
it happens to be on. However it rarely suffe
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