RE: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Nasrin Khaksar, Thank you for your request. Apache OpenOffice does not produce docx files. There is no effort to provide docx output at this time. There are free products that do feature interoperable support for docx and the other OOXML formats (xslx, pptx, etc.). Users who make us of such

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Sony Cyriac
Dennis Hamilton, Could that be considered as a new feature request. I feel like an export to docx format would be useful for many users. Regards, On Tue 15 Mar, 2016, 9:01 PM Dennis E. Hamilton, wrote: > Nasrin Khaksar, > > Thank you for your request. > > Apache OpenOffice does not produce doc

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread James Knott
You can use LibreOffice to save .DOCX. However, whenever possible, you should use plain .DOC, due to incompatibilities even within Microsoft Office. BTW, please keep that religious nonsense off this list. Many people, myself included, find such delusion offensive. On 03/15/2016 11:31 AM, Denni

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Sony Cyriac
James Knott, Please understand that many great feature in open source software had developed via discussion like these. Sorry, for any thing, that you have felt offensive. BTW, This is not an advisory or promotional thread of LibreOffice. I too find that offensive. Also, It's generally known tha

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Mar 15, 2016, at 13:36, Sony Cyriac wrote: > > BTW, This is not an advisory or promotional thread of LibreOffice. I too > find that offensive. Also, It's generally known that doc is a standard > format, but when docx is required, it has to be used. In general, I have found lurking beartra

RE: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Sony, Thank you for your comments. Yes, this is a desirable feature. I don't think there is any longer any serious question about that. The reality is that Apache OpenOffice, a volunteer-developed software product, does not have the means to provide the feature at this time and cannot plan

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread doug
On 03/15/2016 05:07 PM, Julian Thomas wrote: On Mar 15, 2016, at 13:36, Sony Cyriac wrote: BTW, This is not an advisory or promotional thread of LibreOffice. I too find that offensive. Also, It's generally known that doc is a standard format, but when docx is required, it has to be used. In

Re: a question about docx files.

2016-03-15 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Mar 15, 2016, at 21:23, doug wrote: > > I think you are going to have to save the file as a .pdf, and then move the > pdf to the destination and open it with the app for that system. > That ought to preserve everything. Kinda clumsy, but ought to be fool-proof. That will work to preserve

Re: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish (or not)

2016-03-15 Thread Urmas
"Darren Myers": I shouldn't have to delete a profile and re-create it and go through that pain in order to get the most basic function working. Open office need to fix this MAJOR problem. Of course this is a big problem, but OpenOffice is no longer actively developed. You should switch to Li

Re: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish (or not)

2016-03-15 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2016-03-16, 12:18 AM Urmas wrote concerning "Re: Open Office Writer UTTER , UTTER Rubbish (or not)": ... but OpenOffice is no longer actively developed. You should switch to LibreOffice, they fixed that extensions bug 2 years ago. OpenOffice is still being developed. Quit spreading this FUD.