Why can't flowcharts or mathematical equations created in Microsoft Office and saved in .docx format be opened by LibreOffice?

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Published on 2011-12-14T07:32:51Z Indexed on 2012/12/03 17:19 UTC
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I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and LibreOffice that comes with it.

Before this , I was a Windows user and some of my previous documents were saved in .docx format.

I tried to use LibreOffice to open those .docx file and I can view all text, however I can't view the flowchart I drew and also mathematical equations.

Another issue is, if I create new flowchart with LibreOffice and save it in .docx file, when I re-open that file, I can't view those flowcharts, but those flowcharts are there, occupied space. No problem for .odt format of course.

Does anyone know why this happens? Thanks in advanced.

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