Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Thanks, Matthew!
Yes, NeoOffice should be fine for editing. I hope it doesn't have any
problems with style retention -- it shouldn't, as those only showed up
in OOo 2.4 and 3.0beta.
You should be able to get copies of the .ODT files for the Migration
Guide here, but you may have to get a website login first:
http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/migration/published_final/
Please save any changed files (with new filenames) in this folder:
http://oooauthors.org/en/userguide3/migration3/mg-3-drafts/
If you have not already joined the OOoAuthors site, please do so (it's
a separate login from the main OOo website, though you can use the
same username) and then ask for the Author role; you will need that
before you can upload files to the website.
More info here: http://oooauthors.org/en/
BTW, re the Migration Guide: in addition to what I wrote previously, I
think some important topics may be missing from the current version of
the book. (I seem to recall a conversation on this list about this
late last year or early this year, but I haven't tried to find it.)
Collecting opinions on what's missing and needing to be added could be
very helpful too.
--Jean
Matthew Copple wrote:
I have 3.0 Beta, MS Office 2008 (both on my Mac) and Office 2007 on my
wife¹s laptop. However, I¹ve noticed several folks cautioning not to
use Ooo
3.0 for editing the books. Will NeoOffice do the trick?
Matthew Copple
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On 5/22/08 10:02 PM, "Jean Hollis Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yesterday I renewed my call for more people to help update the OOo
user guides for v3.0.
One specific book needing updating is the Migration Guide, which not
only needs checking for new and/or changed things about OOo itself,
but would really benefit from additional material related to migrating
from MS Office 2007. I don't have Office 2007 and rarely use Windows,
so I can't do it myself even if I had the time.
It's quite possible that someone has already published some or all of
the info needed, on a blog or website or wiki somewhere (Marketing,
perhaps?), so a volunteer should start by doing some research to find
any info that's out there. You wouldn't even need to have Office or
Windows to do that research! (And don't feel you have to take
responsibility for the whole book, though it would be nice if you did.
Any work, on one chapter or even part of a chapter, would help.)
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Writing or editing in a compatible DOC format should be OK too, unless
there's some incompatibilities for the limited range of styles we use. I
could adapt the other style categories afterwards. It might be
informative to try that and see how MSO Professional 2007 works for
writing our docs.
I have some recent URLs relating to MSO migration somewhere. One thing I
know is that nested tables in ODT won't migrate to MSO. The outer table
is lost.
Gary
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