Public bug reported:
I would like to maintain my OpenOffice.org Writer documents in ODT, but
occasionally save as MS Word 97/2000/XP DOC format for distribution to
others.
If I use 'Save As', the newly-created DOC file becomes the default for
the document, so the changes I make will be saved to the DOC file and
not to the ODT original. I have, in effect, created a fork of the
original.
This means that whenever I save to DOC I must close the document and re-
open the ODT to continue editing. This is a manual process, and is easy
to forget. It's very annoying when we've accidentially continued to edit
the DOC and we must merge the changes back into the ODT.
It would be better if the ODT remains as the main trunk of development,
then I explicitly export ('branch') to DOC when required.
My company is very supportive of open standards, but the lack of such a
feature makes standardising on ODT troublesome, especially for our less
tech-savvy staff members. We should be doing more to keep ODT as the
default and treating DOC as a secondary export format for compatibility
only.
** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Export to MS Word DOC formats
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/403830
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