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On Wed, 2014-03-26 at 16:02 +0000, Richard Brown wrote: > Hi Phil and Bad > > Thanks for the replies. The wine and office option is a good one. I > wish I could mandate use of odf/doc format. I work with an > organisation who has deemed that it is not possible to open a document > saved via open office or libre office. They are heavy handed and I was > hoping to avoid some sort of battle with them. I might decide that the > battle needs to take place! > > Thanks for all the help. > > On 26 March 2014 14:59, Philip Hudson <phil.hudson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 26 March 2014 14:36, Richard Brown <wildwoodslosty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> The lot I work for who claim that they cannot documents saved by Libre or > >> Open Office. > > > > You can choose to Save As... in Word format at any time, or configure > > the prefs to always read, write and create in Word format. As you > > might imagine, this is a very common scenario. > > > > -- > > Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.biz > > @UWascalWabbit PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63 > > > > -- > > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq > > > > -- > --- > Richard Brown > Youth Worker, Dad and Husband > http://wild-woods.org.uk/ > I had recent dilemma with a Proof Reader who, after moving to Linux and using Libre Office hit a brick wall with RTF files. I thought any WP would edit these but they are fundamentally MS. Formatting is lost in Libre, so we had to resort to Wine. -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq