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[Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files
- Subject: [Discuss] LibreOffice and .docx files
- From: julian.daich at freecomputerlabs.org (Julian Daich)
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 03:06:53 +0100
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2017-12-05 2:25 GMT+01:00 Nancy Allison <nancythewriter7 at gmail.com>: > 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. > Hi Nancy, Do you have ubuntu-restricted-extras installed? Best, Julian > All suggestions gratefully received. > > --Nancy > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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