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So interesting… does it work well with modern word documents? I don’t expect it to run docx but somehow I think it might be better than open office in some aspe

So interesting… does it work well with modern word documents? I don’t expect it to run docx but somehow I think it might be better than open office in some aspects

HeckFeck 5y ago
It fares quite well, actually. Here's a screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/GmVUAfC https://imgur.com/a/GmVUAfC I converted my dissertation from Docx to Doc using LibreOffice Writer. It opened in Word 97 almost identically (some page breaks notwithstanding). In my dissertation I had a screenshot with some text boxes and arrows floating over it. Good old Word 97 rendered it perfectly, position, formatting, the works. To complete the picture, after opening my dissertation, Clippit looks suitably bored. And on Office97 running Docx, funny you mention that. While there is no official way, there are those in this thread who have got the MS FileFormatConverters to work: https://msfn.org/board/topic/133124-ms-office-2007-compatibility-pack-with-office-97/ https://msfn.org/board/topic/133124-ms-office-2007-compatibi... When I have a spare weekend, I'm going to try this in my Wine'd setup and see how far I get. The results will become a blog post.
- heavyset_go 5y ago
  > I converted my dissertation from Docx to Doc using LibreOffice Writer. It opened in Word 97 almost identically (some page breaks notwithstanding). In my dissertation I had a screenshot with some text boxes and arrows floating over it. Good old Word 97 rendered it perfectly, position, formatting, the works. To complete the picture, after opening my dissertation, Clippit looks suitably bored. I bet if you used Office to convert Docx to Doc, Word 97 would import it without problems. LibreOffice seems to make lossy conversions between formats.