At 02:04 PM 12/21/2009 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Jon Cosby <jon@jcosby.com> wrote:

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On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 11:24 -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:

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All,

I have a "word" doc that I can open and edit via a windows install of oowriter 3.0.0.  I last saved the doc from that environment.

But from OS 11.2 with OpenOffice_org-writer-3.1.1.4-1.1.4.x86_64 installed, it opens as garbage.

Are there some known major issues with 3.1.1.4?

A bug has been reported, with a partial solution:

<https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=564274>https://bugzilla.novell. com/show_bug.cgi?id=564274

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Is it really necessary to use the MS Office format? I do fine using the OD. The current MS Office has native support and Sun provides plug-ins for older versions. That's assuming they don't have OOo installed already. Unless someone specifically requests MSO, I always go with the open format.

Thanks, the fix (removing the kde specific oo extension) worked for this doc anyway.

Regardless I also have it OD format now, but I get lots of incoming docs in MSO format, so at a minimum I need to be able to open them. And the bug prevented doing so for this doc.

Also, as of what version of MSO is OD support native?  In particular in the just the last 6 months or so I've started receiving docx and xlsx docs on a routine basis, so if MSO 2007 supports it, I might follow your lead since the world seems to be assuming MSO2007 is generically available.

Greg

I have had problems in the recent days with OOo. (Windows 7.) The document went fine, but when I attempted to save it as a .rtf, it apparently didn't. It saved it in some non-standard file type that nothing else in the world understands. Not even other computer systems with OOo on them. I tried to email the file to someone, and it came out garbage. With considerable difficulty, I sent the file to the Windows XP emulation, where I had reinstalled WordPerfect 3, which doesn't work on Win 7, (PAH!) It transferred fairly easily, except for sentence/paragraph breaks. When I then sent the file, (in .doc format) it worked perfectly. OOo needs to clean up its act, if it intends to emulate the .doc or .rtf file standard of M/S. I don't have Word, and won't, but I'm not sure I'll ever use OOo again. It's a pain to have to use an emulator to run a standard, useful program like WordPerfect, and I wish I hadn't converted to Win 7 just to get a reasonable wakeup time. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org