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----- Original Message ----- From: "Errol & Estelle Sapir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:36 PM Subject: FW: [OOo-H] m$ word documents appear larger than on word > > > > My letters seem to reply only to the person whom I answer and doesn't > automatically go to this forum. Why? This is forwarded . > Errol > > I found out how to change the screen view from 140% to any other size. Go to > "view">"zoom". There one can change the size of the document size as viewed > on the screen. As I said before, this does not alter the actual size of the > document. > What I haven't found out is how to make a particular size the default view > size (say 75% - which is a size I like). The size seems to be defaulted at > 140% for documents converted from word. > My real problems with word converted documents are with pictures and things > other than type. There the conversion is FAR from good. > You can post my mail to the Open Office IL mailing list. Isn't this list the > OO IL mail list? If not how does one join? > > Errol > > -----Original Message----- > From: Boaz Rymland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 7:50 PM > To: Errol & Estelle Sapir > Subject: Re: [OOo-H] m$ word documents appear larger than on word > > Hi Errol! > > thanks! looks like you got it. > 1. So you're not sure how, but you're viewing Word docs at 75%? (how did it > get from the default 140% to 75%?) 2. Can I post your mail (or perhaps you > prefer to) on Open Office IL mailing list? perhaps people there will have > the answer. surely they're supposed to as chief porting/deveoplers of the > OO-IL project are subscribed there > > Thanks again :-) > Boaz. > > Errol & Estelle Sapir wrote: > > >The answer is in the page size viewed on the screen. If you print out > >the page it is ok. When converting a word document the view on screen > >is set by default to convert word documents to 140% size on the screen. > >I view a normal word document at 75%. > >How does one readjust this default? I don't know. > >Errol > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > >Behalf Of Boaz Rymland > >Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 12:45 AM > >To: Open Office IL > >Subject: Re: [OOo-H] m$ word documents appear larger than on word > > > > > > > >Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > > > > >>On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:03:26PM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>>Hi! > >>> > >>>I wonder for some time. My OO is working really fine but one nagging > >>>thing is that it display the .doc files as such that let say, text > >>>that occupies 1 page on M$ word, on OO will occupy 1.2 (estimation) > >>>pages. in other words - its as if the "12" letters size is larger on > >>>OO than word, or similarily - that the OO A4 page is smaller than M$ > >>>word > >>> > >>> > >A4 page. > > > > > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>You can easily test the latter (also check the size of the margins). > >> > >> > >> > >> > >Yeh, sounds logical. after trying that I've recalled that I already > >checked this in the past. My OO is going crazy when I touch those > >values on the "page setup" window. not only it presents funny numbers > >there for the width and height of page but when I try to change them, > >things go > >wierd: when I click the mouse on the fields for updating the values > >jump up for the numbers there. most of my updates are getting > >overwritten, as soon as I press the "tab" to switch to next field, > >again, with funny numbers. All along the "page preview" on the left of > >the window shows strange rectangles for my setup (but perhaps following > >the funny numbers in the fields themselves). > > > >Well, I guess I should wait for the next version due soon(?)... (I > >have the RC5, IIRC). > >Thanks, > >Boaz. > > > > > > > >>Another thing to check: inter-paragraph spacing. I think that the > >>default of OpenOffice is more sane than the default of MS-Office . > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>>Whats going on here? do I have to somehow setup my OO to fix this? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > >============================================================== > >To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > >"unsubscribe hebrew" in the message body. > > > > > > > > > > > > ============================================================== > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe hebrew" in the message body. > ============================================================== To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe hebrew" in the message body.
