[Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files

[nancythewriter7 at gmail.com (Nancy Allison)]

Thanks, all.

I appreciate the background information on why compatibility is not assured
or easy. I will upgrade to 5.4x when the time is right (when I have at
least one grizzled Linux veteran nearby to help out if the unexpected
occurs) ...

--Nancy

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 11:15 AM, Derek Martin <invalid at pizzashack.org>
wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 08:25:45PM -0500, Nancy Allison wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The Open Office project still exists with different leadership (it's
> now an Apache project), and while my understanding is on the whole
> Libre Office's Word compaitibility is better, it may be possible that
> a recent version of Open Office handles your particular document
> better, depending on exactly what features it is using.  Could be
> worth a try.  As others said, also try upgrading your Libre Office
> version...
>
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