>From where I sit this is a 'Most Annoying LibreOffice Bug' (MALOB?). Our UK Charity has run 100% open source from day one. Since docx import / export is not yet functional, the only way we have of interfacing with the outside world in terms of group development of documents is doc files. This is sufficiently common a requirement in our world that all our admin machines (except for mine) are set to save writer files to doc format by default.
I am keen to upgrade to LibreOffice for features like the improved print dialogue and eventually to get a workable level of docx support. (Obviously the moment you get good support for docx Microsoft will move the goalposts yet again with a 'new' docx format the same way they do whenever they need another injection of cash. However, the docx issue is only really coming to the fore over the last year or so - despite the existence of the first version for many years now, most of the documents we get in the charity sector are still doc format.) Our current best handling for docx is to get it coverted to doc online by the likes of zamzar.com, or to request a copy in doc format from the sender. We then use doc format or pdf for any documents we return. The doc handling in OpenOffice 3.3 is a bit squiffy - you end up with all sorts of 'Convert 1' page styles and so on, but the end results are usable. Thus, I am still deploying new installations of OpenOffice 3.3 for use by our staff and volunteers (two new ones just yesterday) The typical business report has a cover page, overview, table of contents and a dozen or so pages of stuff. The cover usually has a different page style than the rest - often no header or footer - then the rest often has a common style with say a descriptive header and a page-numbery, doc-referency sort of footer running throughout. The support for this within LibreOffice is nothing short of excellent, with the 'First Page' style being inherently followed by the 'Default' style. The new direct access to headers and footers right there on the page saves a lot of dialogue box interaction. - I've just made an empty report as I've been typing this and LO 3.6.3 really is superb for this sort of task. I can import graphics and pictures, size 'em and stick 'em just where and how I want on the page, wrap the text around and when I'm done I can even spit out a pdf with just a couple of mouse clicks. Better yet, I can paste tables of live data straight out of our MySQL database, and even edit any data errors I spot right there through the query in the data sources window on the fly (bet you didn't know that). 'Selling' LO to our staff and volunteers will be easy. All I need right now is a way of sending a readable, editable version to someone out in the real world... It seems to me that the most important applications under any OS are web browser, email client and office suite. Firefox and Thunderbird are both really impressive, well supported and stable. Without a functioning office suite any OS is nowhere in the global scheme of things. LibreOffice is very nearly there now. Obviously there will always be bugs of some sort or another, but right now support for doc is the Achilles' Heel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626827 Title: [Upstream] Saving to .doc format copies first page header onto all others To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/626827/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
