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Exhaustive and seamless import and export of Microsoft formats - that's the most important and desired LibreOffice feature for me and probably for for most LO u

Exhaustive and seamless import and export of Microsoft formats - that's the most important and desired LibreOffice feature for me and probably for for most LO users!

skrowl 12y ago
This works nearly flawlessly for me since 4.0. So so many Excel files. Ugh.
- ExpiredLink 12y ago
  Not for docx. Ugh.
  - buovjaga 12y ago
    https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi
    - ExpiredLink 12y ago
      all 736?
      - gknoy 12y ago
        I think it was a (snarky?) way of saying, "Remember that this is open source! Rather than simply groaning and giving up, please consider filing a bug report on it, and describing thjings in a way that we can reproduce it". Most open source projects don't have a QA department, so they rely on us to file bug reports so that they can know about broken behavior.
        ExpiredLink 12y ago
        It's not bugs, parts of the import obviously are not implemented (missing code, not faulty code).
        chris_wot 12y ago
        What sort of stuff is missing? Genuinely interested.
- imron 12y ago
  It's the 'nearly' that's the kicker.
  - chris_wot 12y ago
    We encourage bug reports :-)
hippich 12y ago
while this feature makes LibreOffice gather more users, in the long term this strategy IMHO will not pay off. "Microsoft formats" is moving target and playing "catch up with microsoft" game all the time - wasting resources which otherwise could be poured into making product itself nicer, which in turn will convince users to switch based on features, not just on the fact, that it is free. I hope my idea make sense :) I guess balance between two is necessary. You can't totally ignore MS formats, but focusing only on it - will stale this project.
- frozenport 12y ago
  Its not a moving target because old versions of office must open documents from new versions.
  - Karunamon 12y ago
    I've still got Word '97 documents where Writer frags the table formatting...
    - grandinj 12y ago
      If you have one that is not private, please log a big along with the document and some sample screenshots of the correct and incorrect displays. Bugs like that tend to get our attention because they're easier to fix :)
      - Karunamon 12y ago
        I'd really love to, but in both cases where this has happened, the documents are very very private :(
        hackbinary 12y ago
        Perhaps you could anonymize the data?

Exhaustive and seamless import and export of Microsoft formats - that's the most important and desired LibreOffice feature for me and probably for for most LO users!

skrowl 12y ago

This works nearly flawlessly for me since 4.0. So so many Excel files. Ugh.

ExpiredLink 12y ago
Not for docx. Ugh.
- buovjaga 12y ago
  https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi
  - ExpiredLink 12y ago
    all 736?
    - gknoy 12y ago
      I think it was a (snarky?) way of saying, "Remember that this is open source! Rather than simply groaning and giving up, please consider filing a bug report on it, and describing thjings in a way that we can reproduce it". Most open source projects don't have a QA department, so they rely on us to file bug reports so that they can know about broken behavior.
      - ExpiredLink 12y ago
        It's not bugs, parts of the import obviously are not implemented (missing code, not faulty code).
        chris_wot 12y ago
        What sort of stuff is missing? Genuinely interested.
imron 12y ago
It's the 'nearly' that's the kicker.
- chris_wot 12y ago
  We encourage bug reports :-)

hippich 12y ago

while this feature makes LibreOffice gather more users, in the long term this strategy IMHO will not pay off. "Microsoft formats" is moving target and playing "catch up with microsoft" game all the time - wasting resources which otherwise could be poured into making product itself nicer, which in turn will convince users to switch based on features, not just on the fact, that it is free. I hope my idea make sense :) I guess balance between two is necessary. You can't totally ignore MS formats, but focusing only on it - will stale this project.

frozenport 12y ago
Its not a moving target because old versions of office must open documents from new versions.
- Karunamon 12y ago
  I've still got Word '97 documents where Writer frags the table formatting...
  - grandinj 12y ago
    If you have one that is not private, please log a big along with the document and some sample screenshots of the correct and incorrect displays. Bugs like that tend to get our attention because they're easier to fix :)
    - Karunamon 12y ago
      I'd really love to, but in both cases where this has happened, the documents are very very private :(
      - hackbinary 12y ago
        Perhaps you could anonymize the data?