deedee E wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:17:04 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:I discovered this 'moving around' also when putting together 'bunny' manuals for work. Linux at home, M$ at work.
On Monday 03 Jan 2005 05:29, deedee E wrote:
Just curious - I used to import Word documents in to Lotus WordPro.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.
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.
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If the formatting of the document you wish to produce will allow it then make the document using Calc/excel, include the drawings, pictures, screen shots, etc, within the same directory for convenience, and you will find heaps less movement . A little more fiddling with having to merge cells, etc, but you will be able to find your drawings at least close by, most times - right where they should be.
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