[Liverpool] How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word

[Daniel Hartley]

It wont following the suggestions you gave unfortunately. However, there 
is data in the file. Being cheeky and using my unknowledgeable status to 
try to authorise it, I've attached the renamed file and the original in 
the hope some sympathetic individual might be able to help me out. Been 
working on this thing for months.... Thanks so much if you do give it a 
go. I promise to buy a round when I do come to a meeting.

Regards,

Daniel.

On 19/04/12 21:39, Stephen Watkin wrote:
> Depending on the exact flavour of corruption (and if it's a native 
> open document file), you might be able to open the file in your 
> favourite zip file manager and extract the contents that way. ODF 
> files are just a bunch of zipped-up XML files after all. I just tried 
> it on Ubuntu 11.10 - rename the file and stick '.zip' on the end, open 
> it in 'Archive Manager' and see if you can open the 'contents.xml' 
> file in a text editor.
>
> Ste
>
> On 19/04/12 21:32, Daniel Hartley wrote:
>> It's interesting you just send this out. I would generally completely 
>> agree; however half an hour ago a document I've been working on for 
>> months became corrupted using LibreOffice and I'm now spending the 
>> night trying to salvage it from elsewhere......
>>
>> Alas, the tribulations of an unknowledgeable Linux user unable to 
>> configure a properly working system...
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> On 19/04/12 21:29, Bob Ham wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I saw this and thought it might be of interest:
>>>
>>> http://www.datamation.com/applications/how-libreoffice-writer-tops-ms-word-12-features-1.html
>>>
>>> It's a little shallow and completely ignores issues of freedom but it's
>>> an interesting read.  The fact that it comes from a long-established
>>> technology publication is, I think a sign of how appropriate it has
>>> become to use free software alternatives to common proprietary desktop
>>> software.
>>>
>>> A wonderful quote:
>>>
>>>    "Really, the superficial conventional wisdom has the wrong view
>>>    entirely. It's not LibreOffice Writer that needs to catch up to MS
>>>    Word. From an expert's perspective, it's frequently MS Word that needs
>>>    to catch up [to] LibreOffice Writer."
>>>
>>>
>>>
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