Any way to automate the process of converting thousands of MS Office (mostly word / Office 2011 for Mac) documents to Libre; vs opening each one in Libre and saving?
Command line parameters in help.
But why do you need that? What’s wrong with keeping those thousands documents in original format - until the moment you actually need to edit them? Every release brings new MS Office interoperability fixes into LibreOffice; that means that some documents that were imported wrong in older LO version, start import better; so converting a document today, that you will need to edit three years from now, you risk using a worse conversion code, and get worse results than if you keep your DOCX and open it in three years with newer LibreOffice.
Thanks, Mike, for the reply. I’m not sure (if/why I need that). I’ve been using Word for 20 years or so; I am revolted and revolting about the new $99/year option. But fearful that if I don’t convert, I will lose everything, that perhaps Libre or whatever else I do wind up using will eventually be unable to ‘understand’ a program as old as a 2011 version.
On another front-- I downloaded Libre, and it seems fine for my simple uses-- except that I don’t see a way to use voice recognition. I have nerve damage in one hand and can only type “6-fingered” so voice recognition is very helpful when my hand gets too tired. It does not appear that this is an option, at this time, although I read a little about integrating google’s voice recognition into Libre, but I think that is beyond my computer skills. any thoughts?
Alexis
Just to mention: File -> Wizard -> Document Converter ..., which has been reported to work on .docx as well (though LibreOffice Help only mentions .doc extension)
perhaps Libre or whatever else I do wind up using will eventually be unable to ‘understand’ a program as old as a 2011 version
Your concern is understandable. We know that e.g. MS Office 2010+ can’t open MS Word 95 files …
Fortunately, LibreOffice can, and even allows to open Word for DOS documents.