Hi :) +1 and a little applause. If only that was more acceptable. We are getting there though. People around me are becoming more aware of the geekish File - Save As but outsiders still have trouble with that sort of thing Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Brian Barker <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 17:02 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [4.0/Win] Edit form? > > >At 07:28 07/08/2013 -0700, Gilles Noname wrote: >>LibreOffice Write is unable to let me fill this form: >>http://bagofiles.free.fr/Lost.in.Post.Declaration1.docx >> >>Apparently, it's filled with macros. Does someone have an idea how >>to fill this? > >One solution: open it in Microsoft Word (apologies to those who see >these as dirty words!), save it as .doc instead of .docx, and open >that in LibreOffice (perhaps then saving that as .odt). I'll send >you the result. You may need to readjust the vertical spacing. > >While you are at it, you might want to explain to the originators: >1) they ought not to be requiring their customers to have particular >proprietary software available, >2) they could make life easier anyway by distributing as .doc instead >of .docx, and >3) being in Northern Ireland (part of the UK), they should be >providing documents in the international standard A4 format, not the >Letter format used by a very few non-standard countries. > >I trust this helps. > >Brian Barker > > >-- >To unsubscribe 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 > > > > -- To unsubscribe 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
