# Working with documents: Formatting problems

**URL:** <https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/working-with-documents-formatting-problems/2476>\
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**Created:** [March 19, 2024, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/working-with-documents-formatting-problems/2476 "2024-03-19T10:56:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/working-with-documents-formatting-problems/2476/1 "2024-03-19T10:56:48Z")

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Hi all,

i am very interested in open source apps for education. We use moodle, bigbluebutton, wordpress, openproject etc. but we do have some problems with nextcloud and collaboraonline:

nextcloud 28.0.0  
collabora online built in CODE server 23

In several online-courses our students use nextcloud documents to organize their project documents. Working collaboratively on files is fine, but the students have several formatting problems, no matter what browser they use

- when downloading a docx-file from nextcloud documents, working on that file offline on their computer, uploading that file \> formatting is sometimes chaotic.
- when inserting jpg-files in docx-files \> formatting is chaotic
- etc.

Our it-partner doesn´t know how to solve that problem.

Thank´s for any help.

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**Author:** ![mmeeks](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/mmeeks/32/371_2.png) [@mmeeks](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/mmeeks)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/working-with-documents-formatting-problems/2476/2 "2024-03-19T17:07:16Z")

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Do you have some sample files of docx formatting problems ? would be interesting to see. We have another year of work on interop improvements coming in our next annual release 24.04 in the next month or so too.

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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/working-with-documents-formatting-problems/2476/3 "2024-03-20T15:50:51Z")

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I asked students for screenshots (?) of current formatting problems - hope to get feedback in time.

Can I send this docx-file to any personal account, or do i have to post this file - or link to this file - in this forum?

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**Author:** ![mmeeks](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/mmeeks/32/371_2.png) [@mmeeks](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/mmeeks)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2024, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/working-with-documents-formatting-problems/2476/4 "2024-03-20T16:29:46Z")

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Public documents appreciated at [https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/) - and links back to us if it’s a core file format issue are good, unless you’re a paying customer - when you can mail us documents privately of course 🙂

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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/working-with-documents-formatting-problems/2476/5 "2024-03-27T14:22:08Z")

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I got feedback from our students and they are not really happy with nextcloud and collaboraonline.

Yesterday, our it-partner surprisingly sent some ideas to solve the server (?) problems.

Now we will test the updates and some files.

Thank you for your support!