Re: Question, story for Computerworld

2018-01-24 Thread Paul Heltzel
Thank you all! Really appreciate the responses. I've been pointed to the press email address -- much appreciated. Best--Paul On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 3:12 PM, Geoffrey Hartwell < hartw...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > The .docx option did not appear available in a recently installed version > of AOO

RE: Question, story for Computerworld

2018-01-24 Thread Geoffrey Hartwell
The .docx option did not appear available in a recently installed version of AOO in Windows 10, if that's any help With kind regards, Geoffrey Hartwell Eur Ing Professor Geoffrey M. Beresford Hartwell CEng FIMechE FIET SenMIEEE(USA) FCIArb FICArb(India) hartw...@blueyonder.co.uk http://www.arbit

Re: Question, story for Computerworld

2018-01-24 Thread Glen Kohler
Paul— I don’t know how meaningful .docx format really is. I use Word for Mac 2008, and occasionally 2011(hate the interface), including OLE with Excel and mail merge. Either format does pretty much the same stuff, so I set the default save to .doc so everyone can open it. Libre Office for Mac,

Re: Question, story for Computerworld

2018-01-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Paul Heltzel wrote: I'm hoping to reach one of the AOO developers. This mailing list is for mutual support between OpenOffice users. Press inquires should be sent to pr...@openoffice.apache.org Regards, Andrea. - To unsubs

Re: Question, story for Computerworld

2018-01-24 Thread Paul Heltzel
Thanks Glen. I have installed AOO on a PC, just looking to confirm that saving as .docx is a feature of LibreOffice but not of OpenOffice. That's what I'm seeing, along with what I mentioned, that AOO can save, for example, Word or Excel files as .xml (but I'm not sure why you might want to, what t

Re: Question, story for Computerworld

2018-01-24 Thread Glen Kohler
Paul— You might consider downloading and installing AOO for research. 4.1.5 for Mac does not save in .docx. It does save as MS 2003 in .xml. Regards, Glen On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:15 AM, Paul Heltzel wrote: > Hi-- > > I'm trying to confirm something for a story for Computerworld, on > alterna

Question, story for Computerworld

2018-01-24 Thread Paul Heltzel
Hi-- I'm trying to confirm something for a story for Computerworld, on alternatives to MS Office. In Apache OpenOffice, you can't save as .docx, is that correct? I noticed that this is possible in LibreOffice. In OpenOffice, I attempted to save as Microsoft 2003/XML and was prompted to first do