Bug 113883 - Writer docs saved as .docx are read by MS Word and Pages as having no extension
Summary: Writer docs saved as .docx are read by MS Word and Pages as having no extension
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.4.2.1 rc
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2017-11-16 17:21 UTC by florinequals
Modified: 2017-11-17 18:05 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Writer document (11.34 KB, text/plain)
2017-11-16 17:28 UTC, florinequals
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Description florinequals 2017-11-16 17:21:25 UTC
Description:
I work in LibreOffice Writer at home and used never to have a problem saving docs as .docx and opening them at work in MS Office.  Now they won't open and the doc appears in folders as having no extension, even when I put one in again manually.  Pages can't read them either, though it will accept manually added extensions.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click 'save as' in a writer document
2.select .docx
3.close document
4.open document in MS=Word
5. MS-Word says it can't open extensionless files.
6. Manually add .docx to document name.
7. Click to open, but doesn't work.

Actual Results:  
Document didn't open

Expected Results:
Document should have opened in MS-Word as a Word document.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
Pages can open the document as a Pages document if I manually add the .docx extension.


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_1) AppleWebKit/604.3.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.0.1 Safari/604.3.5
Comment 1 florinequals 2017-11-16 17:28:27 UTC
Created attachment 137815 [details]
Writer document

This document displays in LibreOffice as 'Textedit' though I saved it as .docx.  In MS Office it displays as 'File' and won't open.
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2017-11-17 18:05:45 UTC
It seems you have accidentally unticked the box "Automatically select filename extension" in the file saving dialog.