On 05/30/2013 07:10 PM, King Beowulf wrote: > On 05/30/2013 05:44 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: >> ...I can >> generate a three column page in LO Writer, and it prints fine. The >> problem comes when I save, and then re-open the file. Instead of having >> three columns, I have three pages. > Works fine here with LO Writer Version 4.0.2.2. I opened an old MS Word > 97 doc, coverted to 3 columns, saved, it reopened fine. I don"t have WP > docs so can't test that one. > > Now, when you save your document, did you explicitly say to save in ODT > format? I think, LO, by default, tries to save back into the original > file format and the conversion to WP my be gimpy.
Thinking you might be on to something I tried again, starting with a new document opened from within LO Writer (as opposed to using the default, which I have set to .doc, since that's what I have to use for the work I do.) Instead of copying and pasting anything, I typed each line in sort of generically -- "Line one, line two," etc. When I finished the first column I inserted a manual column break and pasted a copy of column one into column two. I repeated that for column three. Then I saved as .odt, .docx, and .doc. I opened each, and they all looked correct. Next I took a copy of the .doc version, selected all, deleted, and typed in the text I usually use. I copied and pasted some text from a .txt file. As with the preceding test I inserted manual column breaks and pasted column one into columns two and three. I saved it. Since it was a .doc, it saved as .doc. I shut down LO Writer and reopened what I just saved. The three columns became three pages, again. However, I noticed some blank lines that hadn't been there before. After deleting the blank lines I still had three pages. But when I inserted a manual column break, moved to the newly created column, hit delete, the text on page two moved up into column two. I repeated the process of deleting blank lines that shouldn't be there in column two, inserted a manual column break, and hit delete. Then I did the same thing for the text that moved up into column three. When I was finished I saved, closed, and reopened. This time the page looked like it should. I also figured out how those blank lines got there. Sometimes, when I paste in some text, it wraps to the next line. To keep things lined up I insert a tab at the beginning of the second line. However, even though it now looks right, it's not. What I need to do is insert a new line character at the end of the first line, and then insert the tab at the beginning of the second line. Anyway, I now have a process that works. And more importantly, I can produce a template I can hand over to someone else so that they can do this task on their copy of MS Word in the future. Thanks for giving me the hint to take a more step by step approach to tracking down the real problem. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
