LibreOffice: why every change in this document is strange?
by dedec0 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5M2ET)
Hello,
where I study, submitted activities are demanded to be send in M$ Word format (doc or docx). This is not a problem, usually. I just make what i want in LibreOffice, normally, and before sending it i save a copy as doc (or docx, if any formatting issue happens, but it was never needed), and send.
This week, though, something very strange happened. It should happen like the following steps:
1. I send a .doc/.docx file with a project to be done in the future.
2. The teacher makes needed comments or corrections in this file, so I have some directions to make the real work, using that file.
3. I make changes to the file, remove comments when I do not need them anymore, and add everything I want or need.
4. Submit it again.
But there are crazy things happening: all the text I add, in step 3, is yellow and underlined, no matter where I add it. It can be inside the parts that have different formatting!
I assumed it could be something crazy about .doc format I used. Fine. So, I saved the file as .odt and tried to edit it then. No use! Unbelievable. What to do, then?
I have made a video to show you everything I described. Notice: The paper in the video is brown because I change this setting in LibreOffice; but it does not affect the paper color in the files; if (for example), another person open a file I created, she will see the file normally; and the exported PDF files also will not have a brown paper.
https://share.vidyard.com/watch/Vikaq8GmxckrakQDpcCK2C
I do not send two videos because the same thing happens in both files: .doc and .odt converted from it. But i send you the files, so you can test and see:
.doc file: https://www.udrop.com/5KsG/projetoDoTrabalhoFinal.doc
.odt file "saved as" from file above: https://www.udrop.com/5KsH/projetoDoTrabalhoFinal.odt
where I study, submitted activities are demanded to be send in M$ Word format (doc or docx). This is not a problem, usually. I just make what i want in LibreOffice, normally, and before sending it i save a copy as doc (or docx, if any formatting issue happens, but it was never needed), and send.
This week, though, something very strange happened. It should happen like the following steps:
1. I send a .doc/.docx file with a project to be done in the future.
2. The teacher makes needed comments or corrections in this file, so I have some directions to make the real work, using that file.
3. I make changes to the file, remove comments when I do not need them anymore, and add everything I want or need.
4. Submit it again.
But there are crazy things happening: all the text I add, in step 3, is yellow and underlined, no matter where I add it. It can be inside the parts that have different formatting!
I assumed it could be something crazy about .doc format I used. Fine. So, I saved the file as .odt and tried to edit it then. No use! Unbelievable. What to do, then?
I have made a video to show you everything I described. Notice: The paper in the video is brown because I change this setting in LibreOffice; but it does not affect the paper color in the files; if (for example), another person open a file I created, she will see the file normally; and the exported PDF files also will not have a brown paper.
https://share.vidyard.com/watch/Vikaq8GmxckrakQDpcCK2C
I do not send two videos because the same thing happens in both files: .doc and .odt converted from it. But i send you the files, so you can test and see:
.doc file: https://www.udrop.com/5KsG/projetoDoTrabalhoFinal.doc
.odt file "saved as" from file above: https://www.udrop.com/5KsH/projetoDoTrabalhoFinal.odt