MSWord documents

[Bill Irving <bi...@gmail.com>]

I am receiving a number of word and excel documents lately with the 'X' 
file type (docx & xlsx). I noticed that the "save as" file types in open 
office do not support these file types.  If I save the files as the word 
97/2000/xp doc format will I lose anything??

And, are there any plans on upgrading the saved file type to an 'X' 
format (docx & xlsx).

Thanks for your help.

Bill Irving

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Re: MSWord documents

[Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <an...@pitonyak.org>]

On 05/27/2013 11:13 PM, Bill Irving wrote:
> If I save the files as the word 97/2000/xp doc format will I lose 
> anything??

The DOC format, although not perfectly supported, is supported pretty 
well in AOO. When given the choice, I usually choose DOC over DOCX 
because of this. LibreOffice supports DOCX at this time, but I still 
choose DOC over DOCX if I have a choice there.

> And, are there any plans on upgrading the saved file type to an 'X' 
> format (docx & xlsx).

You should be able to read DOCX files in AOO now, and I do believe that 
DOCX support for writing is planned. I do not remember the planned 
release version, however. With my horrid memory, I do not remember if it 
was 4.0 or 4.1 as an expected release (but my memory may be faulty).



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Andrew Pitonyak
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