Hi Hannu, I'm afraid I don't know enough about LyX to help. However I had a quick look at it in OpenOffice.org and assuming it imported correctly, which it seems to have, it seems like a typically badly laid-out Word document. I can see why any little thing could mess it up.
I think Ingar's suggestion is a good one. You actually have three page styles, 10 paragraph styles and four character styles in use in the document if OOo is reading it properly. I have used both LyX and OOo to reformat papers and it's usually easier to paste the text in as plain text and work from there. I don't know about LyX but if you understand OOo styles -- environments in LyX terms -- it would probably be a fairly easy job to create the needed styles -- if they don't exist -- in OOo ;and just quickly reformat the whole thing. In OOo you would need to understand the use of Styles> See [url=http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Chapters][b]OOo Authors[/b][/url] --- On Mon, 3/21/11, Hannu Vuolasaho <vuo...@msn.com> wrote: From: Hannu Vuolasaho <vuo...@msn.com> Subject: Help me out of .doc To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Received: Monday, March 21, 2011, 9:08 PM Hello! I made small edition to my final thesis in Word and now it looks terrible again. I want to get rid of it. I have more important things to do than keep document's layout in looking good. I have been playing with openoffice writer2latex and lyx for several hours without notable success. So could someone import this template doc http://edu3.tokem.fi/TIEDOSTOT/Tekniikka/Opinnaytetyon_malli_Versio_3_3_21_9_2010.doc to lyx and send it back to me if I ask nicely? That doc has three styles. Cover, beginning and the rest of it. Also appendices need one style more but I'll figure that out by myself when I get there. No header or footer and pagenumbers restart. I believe that's easy. It seems to be too big task for a newbie who just read trough some tutorials and FAQs. Results should be quite similiar so that when the document is printed (or PDFed) you can't say which one is from real tool and which is from MS Word. I believe after I have lyxfile to play, I can copy, paste and adapt to the rest of document. Or is this one of those things that I have to just live with and hate those who made computer "easy to use"? Thanks in advance, Hannu Vuolasaho
