Hi, How can I configure LibreOffice after install or before to use the Microsoft file extenstion as default and as well set the path to save the files to the users personal folder located on the network?
We have over 700 users.
Thank you
Your question is perhaps poorly worded. Do you in fact mean you want LO to produce MSO-formatted files (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, …)? I.e. you want to use LO as a royalty-free replacement for paid MSO? This is a bad idea. Though LO can produce compatible documents, you should consider the odds inherent to this approach. The concepts in both formats are different and some features have no equivalent in the other format. This requires a translation using available (different) features to produce an approximation of the missing features. This happens when you open the file and when you save it. You can’t consider the translation to be done only once; it is systematically done whenever you work on the file. And this has a disastrous cumulative effect resulting in a corrupted file after some edit iterations.
Of course, if files are very simple ones, at the lower end of the possibilities spectrum, the risk is very low but this is not beneficial to your users. Document stability and reliability can only be achieved and guaranteed when you store files in native format.
If you fear a rupture with your external recipients, remember that MSO claims to be able to read ODF documents (the format used by LO). The compatibility issue remains the same, but your documents will be “clean” and the blame can then be put on MSO not correctly interpreting ODF (because they intentionally introduced deviations from the standrd).
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