Trouble opening ODT files from Libre 3.4.3 with Office 2007

Alex_Ross1983

I upgraded to Libre Office 3.4.3 the other week and it seemed to be working fine until I tried to open some files I'd created in LO with Office 2007.

It suggested the file was corrupted or something, but managed to open it fine, however it opens it as a new file - essentially recovering the text and putting it into a new file.

Is this something anyone else has experienced?

I use Office 2007 at work so being able to create a file in LO and opening it in MO is very useful! It's happened for every file I've created in LO so far so don't think it was an isolated incident.

Villeroy · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:11 am Post subject:

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floris_v · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:16 am Post subject:

I just noticed that opening a Word 2002 file (.doc) with comments and record changes on took much longer for LO than for OOo. It also opened a docx file - and took a while for it, longer than OOo 3.3.0.
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Alex_Ross1983 · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 8:31 am Post subject:

Thanks for the replies, I'll try the links when I get home.

Well the reason I post is that Office has always opened ODT documents fine in the past, and I'm re-saving them as ODT documents via Office 2007 (i.e. when it 'recovers' the text, I re-save it as the same file) and then it opens them fine from then on.

floris_v · Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:10 am Post subject:

Wait - I read that the wrong way around. I thought that LO had problems with Word files. Lol.
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Alex_Ross1983 · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:17 am Post subject:

Just had another problem too - edited a file in LO 3.4.3 yesterday on the laptop, transferred it to my work desktop and tried to save it in Office 2007 (It's a docx file) and it says 'A file error has occurred'.

In the end I had to scrap it as it did it even when I copied and pasted the text into a new file.

I'm downloading the link provided but as it's Office 2007 on a work computer I'm not sure it'll install.

As I say, it always worked fine in the past so I'm thinking I might just uninstall and reinstall version 3.3.4 or whatever it is. Either that or give it until the next update due in a couple of weeks and see if that resolves it.

Thanks again.

Alex_Ross1983 · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:22 am Post subject:

Nope can't install the file as I need admin rights.

I'll see if saving as .doc resolves it and I'll have to get into the habit of changing it when I create a file.

floris_v · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:23 am Post subject:

Saving in doc format is actually safer because that import/export filter is more robust, even if it's not perfect.
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