Hi users, Recently I had a nightmarish experience with trying to edit long tables on a document originally created with Microsoft Office (the last version before the Office365 move, I believe it was Office 2003). It had tables pasted inside of tables... something which was a nightmare to edit and move properly in AOO.
To make a long story short: I ended up deleting the tables and redoing those by hand from scratch.... It worked well. The issue still remains that I end up editing stuff created on Microsoft Office by users whom, per company policy, must use the installed copy of Microsoft Office and do not have administrative rights to install other software. I can edit those documents fine with AOO 4.1.8, save as ODT, and then when I have a final copy, e-mail back the document saving it in .DOC (Word97,Word2000, WordXP, or words to that effect). In my last exchange with this office, I emailed .DOC documents that looked perfectly on my AOO 4.1.8 (and which started as DOC documents emailed to me), only to be told that the returned document "missed all the margins" and had to be re-edited by them on MS Office. So, I would very much prefer emailing ODT to them for them to open in Microsoft Office, and then re-save by themselves in DOCx format on their system... Sun Microsystems used to offer a set of installable Opendocument Filters for Microsoft Office. The download page was at: http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp On Web Archive the last version seems to be v3.0 archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20090226123328/http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp But since the binaries weren´t direcly linked there is no way to download the installer from archive.org. Would anyone on this list be so kind as to provide me with filename of the installer and sha1sum so I can try to find them on other sites and know the installer is "safe" to install and use? And anyone happens to know the legal status of those filters, were them ever open sourced by Sun? Could they be open sourced by Oracle now? Please do not reply "use the AOO fork". Such replies will be ignored. ;) Thanks in advance. FC ---- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
