Good Day;
I just downloaded and installed Libre Office 3.4. I was setting it up on a client’s machine. I normally setup the default save to be MS Office 97-2003 etc as type doc. That option no longer exists. In the North American setting, that is just not going to be acceptable. I have installed Open Office or Libre Office on dozens if not hundreds of machines. Many of my clients have taken CDs home with them and installed on their home computers as well. In virtually all cases, the ability to save in a default format that works in MS Office 2003 format has been required.
It is all very well that you were able to ‘clean up the code’ and get rid of the alternate formats, but that was one of the key features that made the software attractive. It is gone and so will my use of Libre Office. I have just uninstalled the fresh install I did last evening and am downloading the current Open Office.
I truly believe that the failure to include the options to load and save in alternate formats is a serious backward step, which will severely limit the acceptance of the product.
Regards
Jim Haliburton
Owner / Partner
On-Site Computer Services of Halifax
The number of import and export formats has been increased, and in terms of default format for saving documents nothing has changed, so it is still possible to set MS Office – and various flavors of it – as default format for writer documents. Code cleaning was not meant in any way to reduce the number of features, but to make the executable leaner and faster.
Thank you for your reply. After reading your reply, I re-installed ver 3.4. You may not be understanding what I wrote. There is NO option to save as 2003, 2007 or 2010 word format with file type .doc, as the only option is for Word 97 type .doc, or Word 2003 type .xml. I do not believe that there ever was a file type XML for Microsoft Word 2003, so I do not understand where that option came from in Libre Office ver 3.4. When you try to ‘save as’ the file type .doc does not show as an option with Word 2003 as the choice.
In the tools|options|load save|General screen, there is no mention of Word 2000, Word XP or Word 2003 with file type .doc. So either the version I downloaded is incomplete or the menu selector has been changed. There are fewer choices not less. There is less clarity. There is more confusion for a user.
I am not getting into a pissing match here. I am just going to go back to ver 3.3 or use Open Office. XML file types have been problematic for users. Backward compatibility leads most Word users to set the default save action to save as file type .doc even with Microsoft Office 2010. Not .docx and certainly not .xml as a file type.
Hello,
If you watch the save dialog, you can see that the Word 97, 2000 XP are the same format.
So, if you select “word 97” in the default save format, it will save in 97/2000/XP format. For information, it’s not written “2003” but Office 2003 and Xp are very similars.
Good Day;
I just downloaded and installed Libre Office 3.4. I was setting it up on a client’s machine. I normally setup the default save to be MS Office 97-2003 etc as type doc. That option no longer exists. In the North American setting, that is just not going to be acceptable. I have installed Open Office or Libre Office on dozens if not hundreds of machines. Many of my clients have taken CDs home with them and installed on their home computers as well. In virtually all cases, the ability to save in a default format that works in MS Office 2003 format has been required.
It is all very well that you were able to ‘clean up the code’ and get rid of the alternate formats, but that was one of the key features that made the software attractive. It is gone and so will my use of Libre Office. I have just uninstalled the fresh install I did last evening and am downloading the current Open Office.
I truly believe that the failure to include the options to load and save in alternate formats is a serious backward step, which will severely limit the acceptance of the product.
Regards
Jim Haliburton
Owner / Partner
On-Site Computer Services of Halifax
The number of import and export formats has been increased, and in terms of default format for saving documents nothing has changed, so it is still possible to set MS Office – and various flavors of it – as default format for writer documents. Code cleaning was not meant in any way to reduce the number of features, but to make the executable leaner and faster.
Thank you for your reply. After reading your reply, I re-installed ver 3.4. You may not be understanding what I wrote. There is NO option to save as 2003, 2007 or 2010 word format with file type .doc, as the only option is for Word 97 type .doc, or Word 2003 type .xml. I do not believe that there ever was a file type XML for Microsoft Word 2003, so I do not understand where that option came from in Libre Office ver 3.4. When you try to ‘save as’ the file type .doc does not show as an option with Word 2003 as the choice.
In the tools|options|load save|General screen, there is no mention of Word 2000, Word XP or Word 2003 with file type .doc. So either the version I downloaded is incomplete or the menu selector has been changed. There are fewer choices not less. There is less clarity. There is more confusion for a user.
I am not getting into a pissing match here. I am just going to go back to ver 3.3 or use Open Office. XML file types have been problematic for users. Backward compatibility leads most Word users to set the default save action to save as file type .doc even with Microsoft Office 2010. Not .docx and certainly not .xml as a file type.
Regards
Jim H
Hello,
If you watch the save dialog, you can see that the Word 97, 2000 XP are the same format.
So, if you select “word 97” in the default save format, it will save in 97/2000/XP format. For information, it’s not written “2003” but Office 2003 and Xp are very similars.