Re: Libreoffice Not Working Windows 7
Rhonda Brazler
For a school project I need to collaborate with a lot of different people, and they all use MS Office. Of course they all have problems with opening .odt files. (even though MS says that Office should open them just fine..). They all get messages that the file is corrupt. Normally they can recover the content, but with messed up formatting.
So I was wondering.. what file format is the most compatible with Microsoft Word? Also another thing I wondered for a while.. I saw that there are two options for .docx when I save a new document, Office Open XML and Office 2007/2010 or something. Which of the 2 should I use?
From being semi-active in the LibreOffice support areas, I have seen numerous references to .docx, .pptx and .xlsx (the MS Office 2007+ versions) having a few problems currently, and that for best collaboration with MS users, the original formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt) should be used, as the exporting techniques used provide greater compatibility than .docx, .etc and .odt, .etc for MS Office.
ODT support in MS Office will never be perfect, partly because Microsoft want people to use their formats, therefore tying them into their platform to get the best compatibility, and even if people don't like it, Microsoft are a business trying to make money, unlike The Document Foundation (who make LibreOffice) who are a non-profit, trying to promote open standards and supply a great Office Suite.
For various reasons, Microsoft does not play well with others. Your best option is to save your content in a Microsoft Office format. Try saving a test document in doc, docx, other MS options available, and have someone in your group see which one works best for them.
your best option for working with libre office and MS office is to save your documents as a rich text format, i use both Ubuntu and Windows (Libreoffice and MS office) files i have created on MS office are saved as a RTF (rich text format) i can then edit them on Ubuntu and then open and edit them on Windows
There'll never play along, my suggestion is, if you have to use MS Office for work, USE IT, don't waste your time and energy, I tried once and never worked out. Play on Linux can run Office 2007 with some limitations.
i had the same problem as you with MS OFFICE, the first thing i did was to save my files using the options that libreoffice give us but i found that when i wanted to open it in ms office my file did not work properly so, I recomend you to try out these 2 things:1-go to Ubuntu Software Centre and install PLAYONLINUX and then install MS OFFICE in your ubuntu but first you must have the MS OFFICE SOFTWARE with extention .EXE.
I tried out every trick possible in the world to get compatibility between libreoffice and ms office and it was a waste of time so, I recommend you the 2 option I just gave you because all my problems were solved by this way.
LanguageTool is a style and grammar proofreading software for English, French, German, and many other languages. You can think of LanguageTool as a software to detect errors that a simple spell checker cannot detect, e.g. mixing up there/their, no/now etc. It can also detect some grammar mistakes.
My rating is tentative, as I am currently learning / testing the extension, with LibreOffice on windows 10 pro. I am also comparing with web version, and the standalone desktop, to see what how it should work or not with same test given different contexts, so I can keep working with it.
The LO extension, generated dialog windows are very small UI font size that can't be changed apparently, or it would render the rest of the OS including LO, out of its own ergonomic range (itself a pain to manage across the board of windows OS graphical objects and software type).
I will revise my rating upon further information, either way. I am liking the things I see in the interfaces on the web and standalone. but I would enjoy being able to do that integrated into LO. (even if I would also like the web/standalone, UI font size to be independent between the UI and the text under review.
It seems the integrated version in libre-office works well, as well as withing browser text boxes in MS edge.
Howevere only the LO extension has a fine grain options to control. The web and standalone seem to behave identical, probably same web technology.
I am now prefering the extension to the integrated, for its options, however unable to find through google and LT web site a place whether some indications of the meaning of those options might be.
e.g. section header and choices in:
Sentence exceeding rules: Text check move?
Paragraph check mode?
I think the inline mode contex menu font is readable. but when suing the extension dialog box, it might be java ruling the font size.
Tiene muchos errores y limitaciones. Era un buen producto pero se ha convertido en un verdadero dolor de cabeza porque marca como error palabras bien escritas como las compuestas como "supermercado" (por "super" y "mercado").
This has a few quirks, but it won my heart (and this review) by suggesting I use "propose" because I'd used "suggest" in the previous sentence. Very sophisticated for something that's free people. Went to MS 365 and it's bloated with false positives.
This didn't work because Java wasn't installed on my computer. Go to java.com, download it, the go to Tools>Options>Advanced>[Under Java Options] Add...> C:\Program Files\Java\jre-1.8
Tip: Hit F7 instead of clicking this extension's icon in the toolbar which is much more sluggish.
Using LT 5.9 on LO 7.4 under Windows 11. Works well in many respects, but it interferes with autocorrect, specifically "always correct to", which results in blank spaces. Also seems to deactivate itself when the computer comes out of sleep mode. Its spellchecker interferes with LO spellchecker and must be turned off.
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