On 02/01/2015 10:15 AM, Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi Martin,
martin schrieb:
I am just setting up a computer running windows 7 64 bit. I was hoping
to not have to load my old version of MS office at all, but I can't seem
to save to a .docx file in Open Office as it is not in the drop down
list. Do I have to save an old .doc in another format and then convert
to .docx or what?
Apache Open Office hasn't got an export filter to .docx. Why do you
need such? If the recipient owns a new MS Office, it can read .odt
files. If the recipient has an old MS Office, you should use .doc. For
your own purpose you should always use .odt and only convert on
demand, if a recipient forces you to use another file format.
The office suites have differences in their capabilities, which
prevent, that the .odt and .docx formats are 100% convertible to each
other. So there is always a risc in converting.
LibreOffice has got .docx export filters via www.osb-alliance.de.
Maybe you install LibreOffice in addition.
Or you install MS Office. If you have got a valid license already,
what is the problem?
Kind regards
Regina
As a side note, I do have LibreOffice (LO) installed, which means that I
am able to save in the DOCX format, but, I still opt for DOC if
permissible because DOC is better supported than DOCX. I am not saying
that I have had problems exporting as DOCX when I have done it, just
that I rarely need DOCX format.
If you have a hard requirement for producing DOCX formats, install LO.
If you are able to use DOC formats, you have that with AOO (Apache
OpenOffice).
If you have very special case formatting in your documents, it is
possible that you must use exactly the same version of MS Word as your
target audience uses since there are often discrepancies in corner cases
such as certain positioning of floating images and frames. In this case
you are always best served to verify that the target application is used
to open and test the document for proper rendering. Many years ago I had
issues in this regard, so I simply changed how I chose to format the
document and I used methods that translated well into the target format.
That was long enough ago that it may be like recommending that you bring
an extra 5 tires with you for your trip to Florida because the rubber is
bad and you will likely have a bunch of flats. The roads and the rubber
are better than 100 years ago and that advice is no longer required. I
have no idea how it applies to the current batch of software, but, I am
always paranoid.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
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