Hi :) Ahah, if AbiWord, or any other OpenSource office program, reads it fairly well then there is something wrong with LibreOffice. It is very unusual for LO to have such an extreme reaction to a file.
Can i recap on what has been tried so far? Have you re-named the User Profile https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile That gets LO back to factory defaults and removes all Extensions. If the file still doesn't open then it's time for a bug-report about LO itself https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport But posting a bug-report doesn't immediately solve the problem. It takes time for the devs to work through all the other reports already out there. The list is not a waiting list. Most devs have the freedom to pick&choose what they feel like working on. Others are directed by their empoyers to focus on specific issues. Compatibility with MSO is apparently quite a high priority at the moment but even so it might take time for them to get around to this specific issue. On the positive side they might be able to copy something directly from AbiWord to fix it or spot where the problem is and fix it faster if they know which version of AbiWord is happy with it. So, to immediately work-around the problem does a save with Abiword sufficiently fix the problem so that LO can open the file? Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Sandy Harris <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 17 January 2013, 1:53 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Broken file > >Sandy Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> It's pretty rare for a Doc file to completely refuse to open in LibreOffice. >> >> Maybe, but I have one. >> >>> With DocX is slightly less rare. It's much more likely that the file is >>> corrupted or also has problems in other versions of MicroSquish Office or >>> even the same version of MSO on a different OS. >> >> This file has never seen MSO, It has only been edited in L-O. >> I tried opening it in Wordpad as part of diagnosis after L-O >> failed to read it. >> >>> So, i guess the question is have you really tried opening the file on >>> another Windows box. >> >> Until it started failing, this file lived on my Linux box and >> was edited only with L-O. I have tested opening it with >> Wordpad since the only Windows machine handy has >> that. It has never been touched by MSO. >> >> Next step is to try Abiword on the Linux machine. If >> that does not work & nobody has a better idea, I'll >> install MSO on the Windows box. > >Interesting. Abiword reads it OK, though with some >format oddities. > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
