PDF files cannot be edited, which is good because it avoids the kinds of problems that led you to write this question, and also the formatting changes they made will not appear differently on another computer.
What is even better is to get people to send marked-up PDF files that contain their proposed changes. Comments can also be added to explain why changes were made. Or ideally, Track Changes would be turned on to make it easier to see what changes were made and who made them. However, someone with MS Word will then need to use a Diff tool to see the changes and then use MS Word to incorporate those changes into the document. If you pick MS Word, then people can still make preliminary changes to the document using LibreOffice. Pick either LibreOffice (or Apache OpenOffice - is that what you mean by OpenOffice? The suite was forked several years ago) or MS Word to be the official editing tool, but not both. Next, I would strongly recommend making final changes with only one Office suite. Instead, come up with a better workflow and communicate with anyone who may be involved so they know what to do.įirst question, is the document under configuration control? For example, if a bad change is made, do you have a way of going back to a previous version? There are many different configuration management tools available, both free and commercial. To me, it sounds like a terrible idea to try to enforce this with a macro or similar (and it probably wouldn't work even if you tried).
Whether is there a way how to force users to use exclusively MS word for particular docx and to prevent using anything else We are unable to control behaviour of contributors and editors to the extent I would like to have, so I am trying to findout whether is there a way how to force users to use exclusively MS word for particular docx and to prevent using anything else? (I am not on MS payroll, I personally moved couple of people around me with "standard" document writing needs to OpenOffice, but incompatibility in this case creates useless redaction work for us.) Bottom line is about various formatting issues, glue-ing of some words (occasionally space is missing), page footer/header modified or completely disappeared etc. Document is quite complex with differently structured paragraphs and fonts, bullets, numbering, embedded pictures, references to comments under the line, copied/pasted sections pasted with source formatting instead of pure text etc., so generally "fragile" and maybe little bit exceeding expectations of OpenOffice authors for MS compatibility. I know this is too strange question, but we have multiple authors of one document and some contributors use OpenOffice to edit document, originating and edited by majority in MS word.
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