i will definitely send the attachments to you.i have not checked the files yet with MS office.i am wondering because-created the documents in libreoffice,saved them and reopened them & this changed the document totally!!!!!!!!!!!!!libreoffice itself could not open the document it created properly!!!!! anyway i will send you the documents.have a look.i will try to use odt as much as possible and thanks for the direction for playing with the settings.
On 20 July 2011 14:00, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi :) > Attachments get removed before the email gets to the list. Can you upload > the > files somewhere and then give us a link? Alternatively you could use my > private > email address (use copy&paste rather than just "Reply to") to send the > attachments to although i only have a limited idea of what might have > happened. > > > The Doc format is much better than the DocX for sharing with other people. > Even > DocX files made in MS Office 2007 tend to go a bit wrong when viewed with > MS > Office 2010 and similarly the other way around. Of course any MS Office > before > their 2007 can't read DocX at all. > > > MS Office 2007 was the first MS Office to be able to read OdT format but > they > use the old spec despite the newer spec being easier to find out about and > implement. The DocX spec is very secretive and even MS don't implement it > properly. So, it's better to use the older Doc format so that almost > anyone can > open the document. > > > To increase compatibility with MS Office go up to the "Tools" menu and then > right down to "Options" at the bottom. The pop-up contains many useful > settings > and is well worth having a look at but for now just click on the + beside > "Load/Save, then click on "General". Somewhere in the middle is "ODF > Format > Version". Change the drop-down beside that from "1.2 Extended > (recommended)" to > "1.0/1.1". Files saved in that format should be easily opened in MS Office > just > by double-clicking on them. If you look just under there you can change > the > "Text Document" format to "Microsoft Word (98/2000/Xp)". Similarly for > Spreadsheets and presentations although for those 2 you need to scroll back > up > the list 2 places instead of just 1 otherwise documents get saved as > templates > which gets really messy. > > Good luck and regards from > Tom :) > > > > > ________________________________ > From: soumalya ray <drsouma...@gmail.com> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Sent: Wed, 20 July, 2011 8:44:05 > Subject: [libreoffice-users] formatting problem with table in libreoffice > writer > > hi, > just started using libreoffice in ubuntu lucid,version is 3.3.2. > i tried to insert a table & wrote something in it.saved it as .docx and > closed libreoffice.then again opened the document using libreoffice > itself.the last column of the table is going outside the page boundary.this > made the last column invisible for all practical purposes. > i would like to know the mistake i am doing and how to solve it. > i am attaching 3 files here-- > .odt-what i have written > .doc-what i am expecting > .docx-what i am getting > please help me and thanks in advance > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > In case of problems unsubscribing, write to > postmas...@documentfoundation.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > In case of problems unsubscribing, write to > postmas...@documentfoundation.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
