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Troll question, but also really curious: Does the import from MS Office works already? (At least as good as in OSX's Pages). That was the single reason why I couldn't use LibreOffice so far... it just couldn't open files I've got from the "external world", like Microsoft Word, as soon as the document was a slightly more complex.

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Please file bug reports for each file that has problems: http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/

Do also try searching for existing reports before filing, so you will save me and the rest of the QA gang some work.

Thanks for your contributions and awesome work. :)

I became a contributor by accident: I thought it would be interesting to see, if bug reports other than mine also got "silently" fixed.

The bar for joining QA is really low. If a person can use their computer as a working tool and control their emotions most of the time when typing comments on the Internet, they can contribute. I am trying to boost the awareness of FOSS QA in general.

Troll question indeed. Pretty much every LO post anywhere has in the comments someone claiming that:

* an unspecified version of LO is incompatible

* with an unspecified document

* from an unspecified version of MS Office

* in some unspecified manner

* therefore LO is unusable.

The correct answer is: "Bug report with test document, or it didn't happen."

The other standard troll comment is "why don't they have a ribbon yet, it looks so ooooold". Which you'll see on this post too.

(and they are indeed working on this precise thing. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/NotebookBar )

Most of us have work to do. When we receive a document -- which may contain confidential, trade-secret, or even classified information -- that doesn't work in LO, we don't have the time to stop what we're doing, discern what in the document is giving us the problem, and craft a test document that replicates the provlem well enough to fix the bug. Our software needs to support us 100% in our work, which means 100% compatibility with established formats, or it's not going on our computer. Those are the only two choices.

The Ribbon is Microsoft-patented tech. Adopting it in LO would be infringing.

Yes, all this means Microsoft Office is the only viable solution. Cowboy up and purchase the fucking software.

This would be an argument if MS Office were compatible to this degree with its own previous versions, which it just isn't.

There's no excuse for literally not even naming the versions of the software in question, let alone describing the actual problem, if one is going to take time out of one's furiously demanding work day to post a troll comment.

Bug report and test document or it didn't happen.

The article said, it improved support. Additionally there is some serious corporate bullshit speak in there, so we can hope they will win more big organizations over to strengthen open standards.

It varies from document to document, but it's always improving with each release, so try it! Nothing to lose but a few minutes of downloading...

Try it out. I forget which release it was specifically (it was over a year ago), but one day I updated and things looked better aligned in Word documents in Libreoffice.

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