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Does LibreOffice have better MS Word compatibility? It only happens once in a blue moon, but my wife will receive a word document from someone (most recently a
by Rudism 11y ago
Does LibreOffice have better MS Word compatibility? It only happens once in a blue moon, but my wife will receive a word document from someone (most recently a resume that she had professionally written) in Word format, but OpenOffice breaks it completely when she just wants to go in and change one sentence. Having to deal with word documents only once or twice a year obviously isn't enough justification to pay a subscription for Office 365, but are there any other alternatives with maximum compatibility as a strong priority?
- frostmatthew 11y agoIf your primary concern is "maximum compatibility" and you only need to use it "once or twice a year" wouldn't Office Online[1] be sufficient to your needs? [N.B. - I've never used it, just seems it would suit your use case] [1] https://products.office.com/en-us/office-online/documents-spreadsheets-presentations-office-online https://products.office.com/en-us/office-online/documents-sp...
- nice__two 11y agoYes. The RTF filter has been improved a lot and this the doc and docx filters did too (these filters share a lot of code).
- davidgerard 11y agoVastly better. OOXML is a bit of a Zeno tarpit http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6772 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6772 but LO is significantly better every release. (And vastly superior to Google Docs, which is simply incompetent with really quite mundane .docx files.) You probably won't get perfection, but LO is already more compatible than MS Word is with itself between versions.