LO Writer 3.4.0 --- basic .doc/.odt files not understood properly by MS Office 2010

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#21

"Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org> writes:

I've looked into this.

Thanks for your research. If I ever step into this, I now know what it's
about!

FOR THE ODT FILES ONLY:

The problem is that Microsoft supports ODF 1.1. The later versions of
LO (and OO.o) anticipate ODF 1.2 and by default use ODF 1.2-only
features of the manifest in the ODT package. The Microsoft ODF 1.1
implementations do not recognize those features and considers there to
be something wrong. If you let Word "attempt to correct" the document
it will, and it will be fine.

Heh, I wonder if they could instead check for the format version and
instead say "This document was saved in a newer version of ODF, which
might contain features Microsoft Office System does not support."

But as both issues (MSO->LibO and LibO->MSO) are about the manifest, it
is understandable that both LibO and MSO claim the files are corrupted.

#22

Wasn't an argument, it was the truth. If the message doesn't show up in
the little window without my having to scroll, it gets nuked and the
poster, in most cases, kill-filed in the genetically obsolete file.