Hi ) Thanks for your help with this. Unfortunately the mailing list removes attachments. You can upload the file to Nabble so that people can choose to see it if they want. It puts a line of html code into the message and that results in a click-able link for people to just click on in order to see the 'attachment'.
Follow the links in this email to get to Nabble. Then just above where you write the reply there is a line of buttons. The end one is "More" and the top option in "More" is to "Upload a file". After that it works a lot like getting an attachment onto an email. In effect Nabble is storing the file on it's own Cloud. Microsoft's formats vary slightly between different versions of MS Office so documents written in MS Office 2010 may well look different when viewed with anything else, even MS Office 2007 or MS Office 2013 might not display them correctly. It's annoying and seems designed to force people into buying whichever version is used by most of the people they have to deal with. So, a lot of companies and people are currently buying MS Office 2010 even though 2013 just came out. Since some people are ending up with 2013 on home machines and laptops companies will soon have to buy 2013 even though they only just bought 2010. We find that LibreOffice (or OpenOffice) users are able to write documents that can then be viewed correctly by any of the versions of MS Office. So they often become unofficial intermediaries between different colleagues using different versions of MS Office. The situation is improving though. Compatibility with "the most used" or "the latest" version of MS's formats increases with each release and more so with each new branch of LibreOffice. Even better the native format used by LibreOffice and most other Office Suites or office programs is also now supported in more recent versions of MS Office. The ODF format is an ISO format and the specification for that is finalised by a committee on which many large organisations have representation. So the implementation tends to be the same in all the different programs that use it. On the rare occasion documents don't display correctly it is hoped that a bug-report will get filed and the program corrected. Unfortunately MS Office 2007 and 2010 only support the ancient version of ODF. It's only the fairly recent MS Office 2013 and 365 that support the current format. So, it is beginning to be better to use ODF now instead of the MS formats. It's certainly better for documents that are being stored to be read in the future. The main problem is whether it is better to use right now when you have a few people working at a document together. It's increasingly better to change to the ODF format for that too but sometimes it is still impossible. So, many thanks for your help here. If you can upload the file to Nabble that would help but don't worry too much if you can't at the moment. Thanks and regards from Tom :) -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Improvement-needed-for-libreoffice-tp4064772p4064831.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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