saving as docx crashes libreoffice 3.5.1 on windows 7

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#21

You can try saving it as a 2003 xml and office 2007/2010 should be able to open that. I know in a previous version of Libre this worked for me.

Shari

#22

Hi :slight_smile:
MS Office 2007 & 2010 claims to be able to use OpenDocument Formats such as Odt and Ods but it only handles the ancient 1.1 version, not the 1.2 taht most other programs have been using for years (although it was only formally released in about last Aug or something).

Similarly LO supports doc and xls which are standard formats handled by all versions of MS Office.  For the most part it also handles docX and xlsX and so on except for occasional problems when MS Office doesn't implement it's own specification for those formats. 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#23

bangs head against wall.
I'm in academia, they aren't going to buy me a copy of MS to use at home. I
don't want to buy one.
Who benefits?
Bangs head again.
*I* benefit, if LO can open and save docx with no probllems so that it is
transparent.
I normally ignore this kind of trolling, but as you rightly guessed, I've
wasted several hours trying to get this to work and my patience is spent.

#24

Have you tried any of the others.
Softmaker (free trial version), office web. I think a newer version of ApacheOO is due out later this year but it may be no better depending upon work on the filters.
Steve

#25

The Chapter field seems to be the problem, removing it doesn't crash.
LibreOffice 3.5.1 Win7Ult.
Miguel Ángel.

#26

bangs head against wall.
I'm in academia, they aren't going to buy me a copy of MS to use at home. I
don't want to buy one.

Either change the source documents to odf to facilitate use of LO, or
buy m$. You will never achieve perfect compatibility between odf and
m$.

Who benefits?
Bangs head again.
*I* benefit, if LO can open and save docx with no probllems so that it is
transparent.

ODF does not. You would benefit better when abiword, kwrite, LO, AOO,
etc. can open and save odf without error.

I normally ignore this kind of trolling, but as you rightly guessed, I've
wasted several hours trying to get this to work and my patience is spent.

That's what it's all about: costs against benefits

#27

Hi :slight_smile:

This is getting really tiresome.  The argument that no-one should change until the entire world changes is more likely to dissuade anyone from trying LO.

The rest of the project is working hard at getting LO out there as a higher priority and then the format switch will happen when people find the ODF formats are better.

E-letter please can you stop bullying new people and driving them away with your copy&pasted rants?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#28

Am 20.03.2012 23:05, Shari wrote:

You can try saving it as a 2003 xml and office 2007/2010 should be able
to open that. I know in a previous version of Libre this worked for me.

Shari

2003 xml is even worse. The one and only file format with 95% compatibility is .doc/.xls/.ppt.

#29

Hi :slight_smile:

This is getting really tiresome. The argument that no-one should change until the entire world changes is more likely to dissuade anyone from trying LO.

The rest of the project is working hard at getting LO out there as a higher priority and then the format switch will happen when people find the ODF formats are better.

E-letter please can you stop bullying new people and driving them away with your copy&pasted rants?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

+1 - There are many reasons people want/need to use LO or OOo over MSO and we should be helping users solve their interoperability problems.

#30

Am 21.03.2012 01:09, Jon Rubin wrote:

bangs head against wall.
I'm in academia, they aren't going to buy me a copy of MS to use at home. I
don't want to buy one.
Who benefits?
Bangs head again.
*I* benefit, if LO can open and save docx with no probllems so that it is
transparent.
I normally ignore this kind of trolling, but as you rightly guessed, I've
wasted several hours trying to get this to work and my patience is spent.

Why don't you simply download the free Word Viewer from the MS Office site?

#31

Am 20.03.2012 22:58, Shari wrote:

This person is only asking to do what the website says it can. Either it
can or it can't.
Shari

Obviously it can't and e-letter makes a point.

#32

Am 20.03.2012 13:52, darwinev0lved wrote:

Advice, thoughts?
Jon

There is no technical reason why a user of LibreOffice should save a file in OOXML as long as Microsoft Office provides full support for doc/xls/ppt.
Office Open XML (OOXML) is simply a no go area. This pestilence of a file format has been developed to decrease the level of compatibility while having something with "Open Office" and "XML" in the name.