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I've experienced similar problems. The work arounds depend on your objectives.


* Fifteen years ago, I had problems with fundamental incompatibilities between the PC and Mac versions of MS Word. The work around then was I got a Mac, because my primary collaborators at that time all had Macs.


* If you only have one or a small number of regular collaborators, can you convince them to install LibreOffice parallel to MS Office? Then you can distribute files in LO office and let them worry about the incompatibilities.


* Alternatively, might it be feasible to use Google Drive? For collaborative document development, that could be the best option. Unfortunately, it's not a full featured office suite, and some features may not be available or easy to learn how to use. I've used it to great advantage in some cases. I'm not sure, but there may be commercial products that may be better.


* None of the above will work if you perceive a need to distribute something in *.doc format to people you don't know. In situations like that, I've distributed the same document in *.pdf and *.doc formats. For the *.doc format, I've played around with the original adding some extra blank lines between page or column breaks so the visual formatting could be retained through one cycle of saving to *.doc and reopening in *.odt but might not be retained through a second cycle.


* For the long term, I'd encourage you to submit bug reports. For that, you need a replicable example -- and the simpler the better. I'll try to create time to do that with one of my examples; I should have done it a couple of years ago. If multiple people submit bug reports with similar but different examples, the combined effect will increase the chances that one of the core developers will perceive a need to prioritize fixing the problem. If you are a software developer and you have time, you could volunteer to help find the lines of code that generate the problem and suggest fixes. I've contributed code to R (www.r-project.org), but I don't perceive a large enough need to volunteer my time for this.


      Hope this helps.
      Spencer


On 8/21/2013 2:48 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Ouch!!  If Doc doesn't work either then that makes it difficult :(

Sorry i don't know how to help with this.

Ubuntu 12.04 and LibreOffice 3.5.7 should be fine.  I take it that the 3.5.7 is the one that is 
installed by default in Ubuntu 12.04?  Is it possible to try out the 4.0.4 without losing your 
3.5.7?   Perhaps by installing on a virtual machine or 2nd machine or something?

Apols and regards from

Tom :)






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From: tamas czovek <tamasczovek@yahoo.com>
To: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 10:22
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] converting .odt to .doc



Thanks for this Tom.
Unfortunately, Doc doesn't work fine either. I have encountered this problem with virtually all MS 
formats, XP and earlier including. Converting to them corrupts formatting.
Regards,
Tamas






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From: Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
To: tamas czovek <tamasczovek@yahoo.com>; "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>; 
"users+help@global.libreoffice.org" <users+help@global.libreoffice.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 11:12
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] converting .odt to .doc


Hi :)
My guess is that Doc works fine and it's only DocX that gets messed up.


Keep originals in Odt and edit the Odts.  As you already do.


Only convert to the Doc, the older MS format (2003, Xp, and earlier) .  Avoid the recent DocX from 
2007, 2010, 2013 and so on.  Pdf is also useful so that people get to see the document exactly the 
way it appears on your machine (assuming they have the right fonts)

Regards from
Tom :)






________________________________
From: tamas czovek <tamasczovek@yahoo.com>
To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>; "users+help@global.libreoffice.org" 
<users+help@global.libreoffice.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 9:44
Subject: [libreoffice-users] converting .odt to .doc



Hi,
When I convert .odt documents to .doc or .docx the original formatting gets
messed up with, in .doc, half the footnotes lost sometimes. How can I
prevent this from
  happening? I use Ubuntu 12.04 and LibreOffice 3.5.7.2.
Wishes,
Tamas


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