Errors for users copying my ubuntu 12.04 LibreOffice3 files from my website to their MS Word

[Colin Law]

On 4 March 2014 15:09, Don Parsons <dfp10 at verizon.net> wrote:
> Most of the users of my web site set up with Ubuntu 12.04 will be Microsoft
> users. I want to find out more about the difficulties they will have copying
> the LibreOffice3 files that I will populate the website with.
>     When I copy *.odt files to Windows7 desktop I see that they appear as
> Word icons.
>     In Windows 7, if I open one of these there is the message:  "The file
> "xxxx" cannot be opened because there are problems with the contents."
> [press OK]
>     The next message is "Word found unreadable content in "xxxx" . Do you
> want to recover the contents of the document? If you trust the source of
> this document , click Yes."
>
>     Is there a way to avoid getting these warnings and so alarming the
> Windows users of my web site?

Do the users need to edit the files or just view them?

Colin