OpenOffice is it is a nice cheap office suite if you want to read the letter Auntie wrote you with her genuine MS Word or the spreadsheet from your favorite club's annual financial statement. However, I have experienced creating a more complex layout than a simple letter and the elements DID NOT stay in exactly the same place and/or size in OpenOffice as they were in MS Word. So I would stay in a like to like mode if you are collaborating with others to make a newsletter or some other print item. MS Word is a hair pulling experience by itself that will only get worse if you are doing Word to OpenOffice or vice versa.
Kirk On Nov 26, 2007, at 7:42 AM, avox wrote: > > > > Eddie-58 wrote: >> >> Hi >> I currently produce a news letter in word, but I am trying to swap to >> using open source program's. >> The problem is that at the other end the people who turn it into a >> printed newsletter only use word. >> Having discovered Scribus, I would be interested to know if there >> is any >> way I can export to a word format . >> > > Scribus is a page layout program that makes it easy to arrange text > and > graphics for the printed version. Word is a wordprocessor, and > horrible for > doing any layout work. > > If others insist on using word for final layout, make sure that you > will not > be involved in the layout process and use OpenOffice to prepare > your texts. > > If you care about the emotional well-being of the ones doing the > layout, > convince them to use Scribus. > > /Andreas > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/scribus-to-word- > tf4873505.html#a13948651 > Sent from the Scribus mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
