RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

2011-08-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
in it. Word 2010 didn't lose the text. It never got that far. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 23:58 To: 'users@global.libreoffice.org' Cc: 'NoOp' Subject: RE: [libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

2011-08-13 Thread Tom Davies
office.org Cc: NoOp Sent: Sat, 13 August, 2011 7:58:09 Subject: RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office If I wanted to make a text box, going to the drawing tool is not intuitive to me. But I did that one too, just to see what the differences are. - Dennis SUMMARY

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

2011-08-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
If I wanted to make a text box, going to the drawing tool is not intuitive to me. But I did that one too, just to see what the differences are. - Dennis SUMMARY It appears that it is LibreOffice that is losing the text when reading the DOCX text box. When the same .docx is read back into Li

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

2011-08-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 I didn't know about the links and don't support the idea of using proprietary products if it's possible to avoid them. I agree it would be great to use .odt but that it is more realistic to use .doc. You can set the default format to .Doc and similar by clicking on Tools - Options

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office

2011-08-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I'm not so sure the bug report being discussed is anything so simple, but I took on your little experiment. CONCLUSION It would seem, in this simple case, that no one has much to be proud of concerning interop between the different native formats. It is odd that the worst case here is the DO