Tom, Thanks for your & others' responses to my problem. However, I've decided I need to know more than I want to know about using LO3, esp. this conversion situation. I like LibreO not only because it's free, but offers the basics, which is all I need. I want an effortless conversion. The only choices for me at this point are Google Docs & Microsoft Office for the Mac ($150). Google does the job, but so far I can't (don't know how, really) preserve the folder structure I have in my current Mac Documents folder. I just may have to spring the $150 & get on w/ it. LO3 is a good app. If I were starting out from scratch, it would be my app of choice.
David On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:15 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > +1 > to most of that. There is a wikipedia page > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_2004_for_Mac > although the intro is a bit confusing. It does point out that the default > format is .doc rather than the newer .docX which is good but does mean you > can't open them as zip files. > > Newer Microsoft Office can read/write .odt files but they can only cope with > the older ODF formats, NOT the 1.2! So it is better to save documents in the > older 1.0 / 1.1 format NOT the 1.2 Extended! Sadly that is not great for > spreadsheets. > > It might be that pulling documents in as 1.2 is better and then saving as 1.1 > if you need to share with MS Office users. If you can avoid MS Office users > or convince them to install almost any other Office Suite alongside MS Office > (such as LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Calligra, AbiWord, Lotus Symphony Suite or > use Google-docs) then sticking with 1.2 is best. It's only MS Office that > can't cope. An increasing number of people are using LibreOffice/OpenOffice > so an increasing amount of documents are in the ODF 1.2 format so MS Office > users are going to have to become better at reading them. > > Can you find out what format the files are in? The file-ending helps. It is > very strange that it's trying to figure out Ascii filter options. That > makes it sound like a very non-standard format or perhaps a wonky .rtf If > you could tell us the format we might be able to help better. There might be > an add-on / Extension that does a better job of converting/filtering. > > At Microsoft.com there is this page > http://support.microsoft.com/ph/2531 > although i tend to find their advice creates problems or doesn't work or > abandons you halfway through an explanation or misses vital steps. With > other help sites if you are given a choice between 2003 and 2007 go with the > advice for 2003 as that is what 2004 is based on and is most similar to. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Fri, 13/1/12, Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem With "ASCII Filter Options" > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Date: Friday, 13 January, 2012, 1:48 > > On 01/12/2012 07:01 PM, David Werner wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I use a MacMini, running Lion. I upgraded from Snow Leopard, with which I >> could read/write Word2004 documents. Lion won't let me do that. I do not >> want to purchase MicrosoftOffice 2011, so i've downloaded LibreOffice3. >> (3.3.3) >> >> I won't go into detail with other conversion problems. The main one is when >> a document is listed as a LibreOpen Document& I try to open it w/ >> LibreOffice3, I get a window, "ASCII Filter Options." I click ok,& get a >> document filled w/ # signs, among others. This seems to be a problem on >> other websites involving the "ASCII Filter Options" issue, but none of the >> topics relate to Word2004. It's always about Word2003 or Word2007. >> >> What can I do to solve this problem? Or, can I NOT do anything to solve it? >> Would appreciate any advice or links you can give me. >> >> David > I would expect Word2003 to be a very similar to Word2004. I believe W04 is > the Mac version of W03 and uses the same file extensions. So I would try a > solution suggested for W03 unless it specifically says the problem is a > Windows (OS) problem not an Office problem. > > If the file is an *.odt or *.msox you can use a zip utility to open it and > find the xml file with the data in it. This trick does not work W03/W04 files. > > Also, check the default ODF version in LO, it should be 1.2 extended > (Tools>Options>Load/Save>General). You may want to check Microsoft Office > settings under Load/Save. > > -- Jay Lozier > jsloz...@gmail.com > > > -- 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 > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
