[Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

But also, the version you're running is old, and unsupported.  There's a
5.4.x release [1] and also a 6.x beta
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?version=6.0.0

Greg Rundlett
https://eQuality-Tech.com
https://freephile.org

On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:08 PM, Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Darn, I was afraid of that. Thanks.
>
> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Dan Ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:25:45PM -0500, Nancy Allison wrote:
> > > Hello, all.
> > >
> > > I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and LibreOffice 5.1.6.2.
> > >
> > > I've been sent a .docx file with a fairly complex layout, and the
> layout
> > is
> > > trashed immediately upon opening in LibreOffice. I know from past
> > > experience that docx files that I've modified in LibreOffice are, if
> > > possible, even nastier when reopened in Word.
> > >
> > > Is there a Word-compatible open source program that truly does not
> trash
> > > the formatting? Or is it simply not possible to pass documents back and
> > > forth between Word and an open source program like LibreOffice or
> > > OpenOffice? I used Open Office years ago, haven't used it recently, it
> > used
> > > to trash the files, too.
> > >
> > > All suggestions gratefully received.
> >
> > It's an arms race in which Microsoft gets to set the default, and not
> tell
> > anyone what they're doing. Then they get to change it every so often -
> > with the advent of Office 360, all the time.
> >
> > You would think that this poses problems of backwards compatibility with
> > older copies of Word, and you would be correct. Sometimes Word can't
> > open Word-generated files. There have been significant problems
> > with Word for Windows vs Word for MacOS.
> >
> > Some years its better than others. But no, there's nothing better than
> > LibreOffice at handling complex layouts that Word generated,
> > except exactly the version of Word that produced it.
> >
> >
> > -dsr-
> >
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