----- Original Message -----
From: "William W. Austin" <[email protected]>
To: "Openoffice" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 9:49 PM
Subject: [discuss] Is this a bug or ... (long)
After years and years of using OpenOffice (and before that StarOffice),
I have run into a repeatable problem. But I don't know whether it is
the result of very specific formats on which my office "standardized"
about 8 or 9 years ago, or whether it is a real bug worth reporting.
Here's the scenario:
All dox have to be submitted in M$ Word (office 2000) format (".doc")
But since I'm bucking a trend - I am on Linux, not Windoze, and the
prospect of running MSWord under CXOffice (it works, but is very, very
sloooooooooow), doesn't exactly thrill me - I use Openoffice instead.
Well and good: I can create the documents and turn them in - and they
work perfectly and everyone (but me) is happy.
However, when I get a doc which has been edited by MSword, then the
heading numbering INVARIABLY loses its separating spaces. That is, say
you have a doc with headings which look like:
1. Level 1 heading
2. Level 1 heading
2.1. Level 2 heading
2.1.1. Level 3 heading
(etc.)
When I pull the doc up in OOWriter, the spacing between the heading
numbers and the heading text is gone, and I see:
1.Level 1 heading
2.Level 1 heading
2.1.Level 2 heading
2.1.1.Level 3 heading
(etc.)
If I go to the stylist and check, the spacing to text and
Minimum space numbering<->text are invariably set to 0 (and *outline*
numbering shows up in the stylist along with numbered and bulleted
lists on the numbering style tab).
[But on the docs originally created in OOo-writer this has not always
been the case for some reason...???].
I'm wondering whether there is something I'm doing wrong or whether
instead this might be the result of some marginally-incorrect format
which "usually happens to work" and is in common use at my office. (and
I can't submit a sample - it's all burn-before-reading stuff that
*cannot* leave the office... period).
Looking it up in bugzilla if this *is* a known issue, then I'm just
looking it up incorrectly (sorry).
Any opinions or suggestions on this one would be greatly appreciated.
- Thanks
--
william w. austin [email protected]
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
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