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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.penalver@xxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- [upstream] Export functionality for all supported formats
+ Export functionality for all supported formats

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Title:
  Export functionality for all supported formats

Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  Confirmed
Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix
Status in “unoconv” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  I would like to maintain my OpenOffice.org Writer documents in ODT,
  but occasionally save as MS Word 97/2000/XP DOC format for
  distribution to others.

  If I use 'Save As', the newly-created DOC file becomes the default for
  the document, so the changes I make will be saved to the DOC file and
  not to the ODT original. I have, in effect, created a fork of the
  original.

  This means that whenever I save to DOC I must close the document and
  re-open the ODT to continue editing. This is a manual process, and is
  easy to forget. It's very annoying when we've accidentially continued
  to edit the DOC and we must merge the changes back into the ODT.

  It would be better if the ODT remains as the main trunk of
  development, then I explicitly export ('branch') to DOC when required.

  My company is very supportive of open standards, but the lack of such
  a feature makes standardising on ODT troublesome, especially for our
  less tech-savvy staff members. We should be doing more to keep ODT as
  the default and treating DOC as a secondary export format for
  compatibility only.

  WORKAROUND: Save the file via OOo GUI, then immediately convert the
  file using unoconv. Example Writer file conversion via the Terminal:

  unoconv --listener && unoconv -f doc example.odt

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