This would normally be filed here:

http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html

It is very helpful to attach an OOo document and even the generated DOC
file that demonstrates the problem.

I know that I really need to do this as well because documents created for
the OOoAuthors site do not properly export to DOC files; there are issues
with documents in frames with captions that completely fail (which is why
I do all my documentation using a different method).




> I have been looking into the problem of open office with Microsoft
> office files and wasn't sure where to write this. It's coding related,
> but I haven't done any code.
>
> There are two major problems when converting / opening Microsoft word
> files which causes the layout to be different, which is a major
> annoyance for many people, especially when it changes the number of pages.
>
> -----
>
> The first is a rounding problem, Microsoft office rounds up percentages
> calculations, where Open Office rounds down. An example,
>
> I have an open office document which I exported as a Microsoft office
> document. They should be the same, but the page count is different.
>
> For the spacing between lines, OO is 11px, whereas MO is 12px.
>
> Another occurrence of this in the same document is the spacing above and
> below paragraphs, which for MO is 1px greater.
>
> I assume, that when it calculates the line spacing in relating to the
> text size, it produces a float which is then rounded differently for OO
> or MO, though this explanation could be wrong.
>
> -----
>
> The second fault is after a table, the font formatting tags appear to go
> wrong, and so in the OO document, the blank line after tables might be,
> for example, font 10px, whereas the MO version will have been put the
> the paragprah default, of 12px.
>
> -----
>
> I hope you could forward this information on to the appropriate section.
>
> Thanks,
> Owen
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