The file https://www.clemson.edu/procurement/documents/travel/TravelReimbursementQuickGuide.docx opens in Draw instead of Writer both from within LibreOffice via the File -> Open... dialog and from the command line. Then the file is displayed on a portrait oriented Draw page but it appears that the contents are landscape oriented with text running off the sides of the Draw page. I first noticed this behavior in LibreOfficeDev 5.2 which produces no error when opening the file at the command line. LibreOffice 5.1 does produce an error: $ /opt/libreoffice5.1/program/swriter TravelReimbursementQuickGuide.docx :1: parser error : Document is empty %PDF-1.3 ^ :1: parser error : Document is empty %PDF-1.3 ^ :1: parser error : Document is empty %PDF-1.3 ^ $ Version: 5.1.1.2 Build ID: fe4d9e69c82c6ee6db3c27cd5e2d47558afa80ac CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 3.13; UI Render: default; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8) OS: Kubuntu 14.04.4 Version: 5.2.0.0.beta2 Build ID: ae12e6f168ba39f137fc110174a37c482ce68fa4 CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 3.13; UI Render: default; Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8) OS: Kubuntu 14.04.4
This file is a pdf with a docx extension. So it's fully correct it's opened in draw.
How bizarre. I didn't think of someone creating a PDF file and calling it a docx file. It does open fine with Okular.