I have a bunch of HTML files that I need to convert to M/S DOC format. I have successfully used LibreOffice to do this EXCEPT in a number of cases. For those, LibreOffice seems to import the HTML document into Writer/Web (??? that's what the window title decoration says), and then the Save As list is severely reduced and does not include DOC/ODF/... Worse: some HTML documents imported and exported successfully, when imported even as little as 4 hours later suddenly become Writer/Web and can't be managed. Version: 5.1.4.2 Build ID: 1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1 CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.4; UI Render: default; Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8) "Ubuntu 16.04 LTS"
HTML files are opened in Writer/Web by default. That's by design. In order to open HTML in ordinary Writer (not Web) mode, you have to open Writer first, and then open the HTML _from inside it_.
... or choose "HTML Document (Writer)" filter in the open file dialog.
Thanks! Those worked! Is this behaviour documented - I couldn't find it from Google of LibreOffice Help. Now I can go back to unoconv and try to work out why it misbehaved over this issue.
(In reply to Jan Newmarch from comment #3) > Thanks! Those worked! Thanks for confirming. I'll close the bug as RESOLVED WORKSFORME then. > Is this behaviour documented Not that I'm aware of.