On Mon, February 25, 2008 7:51 am, jonathon wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:14 PM, M. Fioretti  wrote:
>
>>  - being sent to MS Office users who edit it as they please
>
> If the users did use styles with MSO, those styles would be available
> in ODF, albeit with a different name.
>
> If they did not use styles

that the creators of those MSO files did not used styles was very likely
since the beginning of this thread and seems almost certain now.

> then expecting OOo to recognize non-existing styles, is akin to
> expecting polar bears to give birth to tigers.

my point was that in these conditions, or in any other real world
giving suggestions to use styles or expecting that such suggestions have
any relevance or usefulness is more or less the same thing.

Of course, the suggestion to use styles is an excellent one, regardless of
whether MSO or OOo are used: but it is fully applicable only by users who
start from scratch and must never exchange/co-edit their new files with
third parties who couldn't care less of styles, which is not the case of
this thread. This is what I meant. This story is an excellent _example_ of
"why everybody should always use styles in MSO and / or OOo", but little
or nothing
of the suggestions given so far is actually practicable by the OP.

Marco

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