I am writing my thesis in libreoffice. My supervisor, however is a conservative MS office user. Whenever I submit text to her the formatting looks good in libreoffice with docx format but when I get the document back the formatting is messed up. Images reformat and change as well as styles. Does anyone have good idea or hint to get good libreoffice MSoffice compatability? #LibreOffice #Microsoft I am not ready to change to Latech for the moment.
@anders You're definitely not ready if you don't even know that it is spelt LaTeX.
But anyway, what version of LibreOffice are you using? I read somewhere recently that the latest version had improved its interoperability with MSO products.
@josemanuel Thank you for feedback. Well, I mentioned LaTeX because I know that this would be a solution. I just don't have the time to learn a new text editor at the moment. Also, I would like to be able to share revisions and comments in a convenient way. I am on LO 7.0.4.2. I also tried to share my text through Nextcloud/Collabora, but sadly it did not come out good in my supervisor's browser. It is still a little hard on the processor and requires a stable internet connection.
@anders You should probably update your version of LO. Latest is 7.4. I believe the one you have is two years old now.
I would also ask your supervisor for her version of MS Office. Maybe it's an old one and she should be the one upgrading. Alternatively, you may offer to install LibreOffice on her machine. To be honest, I think she should adapt to you and not you to her. I mean, if you're a student, how are you supposed to buy an MSO license? I bet hers was paid by her employer, but who will pay for yours?
@josemanuel Well she is on standard, centrally administered automatically updated windows computers. I actually have access to the same MS-word license. However, I chose to work with GNU-linux software only in my dissertation work and hence don't get support. The university really bought into the whole Microsoft model. I guess my old LO version depends on my debian stable system.