On 08/12/2011 07:03 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > -----Original Message----- From: NoOp [mailto:<snipped>] > Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 17:23 To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: MS Word .docx formatting in Libre > Office > > [ ... ] > > Open LO. Make a simple text box with some text in it. Save as an > .docx & let us know how that works out for you.
> 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 DOCX output from LibreOffice read > back into LibreOffice. But Word 2010 doesn't round-trip to and from > ODT a lot better (although it is a lot easier to adjust manually if > desired). > > To get this right, there needs to be a more-systematic effort that > determines what discretionary provisions are being handled > differently and what other features at the format level would be more > successful. > > > DETAILS > > I started in LO 3.3.2 Writer by inserting a frame around a paragraph > of text, then saving it as a Microsoft Office Word 2007 DOCX format. "Text Box": View|Toolbars|Drawing Click on the 'T'|write something|exit the textbox etc. ... -- For 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
