On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:17:04 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 03 Jan 2005 05:29, deedee E wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 13:43:43 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Windows systems for security reasons. These days VBS is about the > > only reason anyone can give for keeping MSWord. OOo Writer does > > everything else MSWord does and then some. > > > Just curious - I used to import Word documents in to Lotus WordPro. > Formatting and everything was fine unless someone had embedded a 'drawing'. > That was diabolical. Do 'drawings' import OK in OOo?
This is still a problem -- but the problem is in the Word document. AFAIK, nothing can get around it, not even Word itself. If an embedded graphic takes a full page, then things seem to go correctly. However, if the embedded graphic is inline, even anchored, Word may move it around. All one has to do is open the Word document (using Word on the machine the document was created on (!!!)) and make a change (almost any change can have an effect, e.g., deleting a word is enough). Then, scroll through. Frequently you will see that graphics have changed their position (and that can affect pagination and so on). Also, Word almost never embeds a graphic, but links to it. So when exchanging Word documents, it is important that you get it with the graphics embedded. A linked graphic is not really in the document, but is calling or linking to another file on the system. As soon as you try to change the Word document, the graphic can disappear altogether if you don't also have the file that the graphic is linked to. deedee Registered Linux User #327485 Visit "WordStar & GNU/Linux" http://www.wordstar2.com Also, see WordStar Users Group Community http://www.wordstar2.com/WordStar_Users/index.php -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10
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