[NTLUG:Discuss] Open Office Conversion to MS Word

[Russell Lemburg]

Ah ... Try saving as RTF format as well. That preserves the indentation for
Word, and you can save as doc from Word (or at least the pages you need).

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Russell Lemburg <cplusruss at gmail.com>wrote:

> Had similar problems on a large document until I finally gave up on it and
> just did it in LaTeX. I was told that Tools > Outline had better
> compatibility with MS Word. Give that a try on a section with bullets.
> Spacing issues can also be caused by fonts. If you go to Tools > Options >
> OpenOffice.org > Fonts and enable "apply replacement table" then you can
> change the bullet symbols. If I remember correctly, that fixed my problem.
>
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> On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Dennis Rice <dennis at dearroz.com> wrote:
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>> In my writing documents while using Open Office for a Linux course that
>> I am teaching, I have observed that when I attempt to save the document
>> in MS doc format, that the numbered / bullet tab spacing is lost or
>> corrupted.  I have OOo 3.1.1 running on Open Suse 11.2.  Have attempted
>> to do an upgrade using YAST, but I may be doing something wrong.
>>
>> Thoughts and insight appreciated.
>>
>> Dennis
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Russell Lemburg
IC Technology, Inc.
1900 Preston Road, #267-303
Plano, TX 75093 USA
(214) 584-8784
cplusruss at gmail.com