Hi :) Earlier versions of the docX implementation don't always work on more recent versions of MS Office. Doc does but DocX doesn't always. Regards from Tom :)
On 22 November 2013 14:33, Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: > > I have a lady who use to send out "complex" .docx files, via email, to > people in a transportation advisory group. I had a long "talk" with her, > via emails, about the "incompatibilities" of MSO with their older versions. > Now, most times, she sends the documents that are not to be edited as PDF > files. The others she remembers about half of the time to send the files > out as .doc instead of .docx. > > She has changed jobs, promotion [sort of], to the department that oversees > the company that she worked for. That department is part of the "County" > government administration. I have been trying, on and off, to get the > County to use LO in some of their areas of agency support that would be > perfect for LO as a MSO replacement even using MSO document formats. I am > working on the idea of saving money on their budget. > > So the issue of the incompatibilities between various versions of MSO is > part of the problem with buying new MSO packages, or "renting them". If I > could get them to stick with an earlier version of the .docx file format or > the .doc format, then that would solve some of their problems and would make > LO perfect for some of their system needs/usage. They oversee several > community computer centers. So getting the County on board will make it > easier to get LO into some of the region's computer centers. > > > On 11/21/2013 08:12 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> >> Hi :) >> Backwards incompatibilities are fairly understandable. New features >> added between 2007 and 2013 are unlikely to be able to be seen in >> 2007. That kinda makes sense to me. >> >> What doesn't make sense is how often files created using MS Office >> 2007 run into trouble in newer versions of MS Office, such as 2010 >> (I've managed to avoid 2013 and 365 so far!). One of my clients was >> running into so many problems with his new laptop's MSO 2013 failure >> to handle files given to him by 2010 users that he finally allowed me >> to install LibreOffice so that i can send him Odts. >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> On 21 November 2013 15:21, Joel Madero <jmadero....@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 11/21/2013 06:17 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi :) >>>> Yes, "Save As..." to "Microsoft Office 98/2000/Xp" (or something like >>>> that, just not anything more recent than 2003). >>>> Regards from >>> >>> Just to continue off of previous statements - Microsoft changes the .docx >>> and .xlsx format so frequently that I've heard that people using 2007 >>> (which >>> supports the x format) can have a nightmare of a time with 2013 files >>> (using >>> the "same" x format). I really don't understand how their formats >>> continue >>> to be dominant despite this reality along with the fact that the true >>> international standard is the open standard used by almost every other >>> office suite - pretty ridiculous. >>> >>> But for an immediate solution, .doc and .xls aren't changing any longer >>> and >>> our support is *relatively* good. >>> >>> >>> Best, >>> Joel > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
