[KLUG Members] OO.o's handling of Word documents

[Jeremy Leonard]

Eric Beversluis wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 15:35 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
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>>>Things have gotten curiouser and curiouser. 
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>>You were withholding evidence!  (Or did you mention the Mac before?)
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>Had no idea it might be relevant.
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>>>To prepare the John-suggested bug report, I tried to make a sample
>>>document (in Word) with the problem: a couple of lines of text and a
>>>small Word drawing/flowchart.
>>>When I sent it directly to my Linux machine from the Windows machine, it
>>>opened fine in OO.  I thought maybe the problem was from the drawing
>>>being on a separate page. But this too worked fine from the Wintel
>>>machine to the Linux machine. 
>>>So I sent the document to my wife's iBook, had her open it in Word and
>>>then send it on to me--lo-and-behold! The mini-flowchart was not to be
>>>seen when it got to me. That very same document (passport stamped at the
>>>iBook Word) I then forwarded to my Wintel machine and, lo-and-behold,
>>>the miniflowchart reappeared. 
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>>Yep.  (Mac M$-Office != Win32 M$-Office).  I've seen a fair number of
>>files that won't even move between Win32 M$-Office and Mac M$-Office, or
>>when they do they are totally devastated.
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>WOW!!
>Whatever the Mac MS Word is doing, it's not DELETING the flowchart, only
>hiding it so OOo can't see it (it's the same doc that works fine when
>forwarded to a Wintel machine with Word). 
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>Bottom line = the OOo Word filters are working right for Wintel Word but
>not for Mac Word?
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I would argue the Mac MS Word isn't saving correctly. OOo is correct.
I've seen many cases where Mac MS Word screwed up docs and Win MS Word 
couldn't work with them anymore.