Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
On 11/10/2012, Kyla Robertson robertsonk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm migrating from MS Word (Office 2002 !) to LibO Writer. In Word, my Normal.dot template contains many, many things: about 150 styles, 250 macros, some auto-insert texts, some custom shortcuts, many toolbars and custom buttons. How can I keep this all to use it with Writer? You can't. Nor should you. LO is not m$. Create all your styles (not macros, they are terrible functions to use) in LO, creating native odf files. Perform a cost-benefit analysis of your time to learn LO, the advantages of odf, etc. and compare to the cost of using m$ and decide which to use accordingly. Do not use LO as a free opportunity to write and create m$ documents. Search this mailing archive for previous posts on this ad nauseum topic. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
Hi :) Lol!! Welcome back e-letter! It seems a lot of things can be recovered and adapted for use with LO. You don't have to start again from scratch and refuse to do business with the entre rest of the world until they start migrating away from MS. If you did then LO would get nowhere. It is a good idea to keep your versions of your documents in LO formats = OpenDocument Formats such as odt, as those are native to the apps. It would mean you can rely on them much more. If/when you have to collaborate or present your documents to non-LO users then it's best to do Save As .. to save into the older MS formats (or the newer ones but they are a bit less predictable between different versions of MSO) such as doc (or Pdf if they don't need o be able to be edited). Note that Google-docs, Calligra, Lotus Symphony, AbiWord and all the rest use OpenDocument Formats as their default native formats too. Even MS Office is starting to pretend to allow people to use OpenDocument Formats although their implementation is a bit broken (what else would you expect from MS right?). Regards from Tom :) From: e-letter inp...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 15 October 2012, 11:49 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot On 11/10/2012, Kyla Robertson robertsonk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm migrating from MS Word (Office 2002 !) to LibO Writer. In Word, my Normal.dot template contains many, many things: about 150 styles, 250 macros, some auto-insert texts, some custom shortcuts, many toolbars and custom buttons. How can I keep this all to use it with Writer? You can't. Nor should you. LO is not m$. Create all your styles (not macros, they are terrible functions to use) in LO, creating native odf files. Perform a cost-benefit analysis of your time to learn LO, the advantages of odf, etc. and compare to the cost of using m$ and decide which to use accordingly. Do not use LO as a free opportunity to write and create m$ documents. Search this mailing archive for previous posts on this ad nauseum topic. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
On 15/10/12 12:16, Tom Davies wrote: Even MS Office is starting to pretend to allow people to use OpenDocument Formats although their implementation is a bit broken (what else would you expect from MS right?). Interestingly when you start a new installation of Word 2010 it asks you whether you want it to use OOXML or ODF as the default... I hope that's not the slippery slope of embrace and extinguish -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing:http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXMLhttp://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
Hi :) Probably is. Even so i think it's best to berate them for their poor implementation and keep hassling them to be better at their implementation of ODF. Like using the more up-to-date version (1.2) that everyone else is using instead of the ancient 1.1. Regards from Tom :) From: Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Monday, 15 October 2012, 12:23 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot On 15/10/12 12:16, Tom Davies wrote: Even MS Office is starting to pretend to allow people to use OpenDocument Formats although their implementation is a bit broken (what else would you expect from MS right?). Interestingly when you start a new installation of Word 2010 it asks you whether you want it to use OOXML or ODF as the default... I hope that's not the slippery slope of embrace and extinguish -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing:http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXMLhttp://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
a couple of suggestions: (1) choose LO as the default - in this way, these documents should open well in LO. (2) When you open these documents, 'save as' using the LO suffix. (3) do not delete MS Word. On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 4:43 AM, Kyla Robertson robertsonk...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I'm migrating from MS Word (Office 2002 !) to LibO Writer. In Word, my Normal.dot template contains many, many things: about 150 styles, 250 macros, some auto-insert texts, some custom shortcuts, many toolbars and custom buttons. How can I keep this all to use it with Writer? In Migration Guide: A guide to ease your migration to OpenOffice.org from other office [suites] (2004) ( http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/manuals/oooauthors/MigrationGuide.pdf ), I found a few things: * AutoText entries: will the built-in method to import them still work with LibO 3.6.2?(should I get version 3.6.2 or 3.5.6, btw? I'm not sure I understand the difference.) * AutoCorrect entries: there's a work-around with a macro and the editing of a ./user/autocorr/acorr.dat file... * Custom dictionaries: there was a work-around to import their content, but the link to download the macro isn't valid anymore. Do you know of a more recent migration guide, or a tutorial on the Web, or forum post maybe? I couldn't find anything else. Thanks in advance for your help! -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
Hello, I'm migrating from MS Word (Office 2002 !) to LibO Writer. In Word, my Normal.dot template contains many, many things: about 150 styles, 250 macros, some auto-insert texts, some custom shortcuts, many toolbars and custom buttons. How can I keep this all to use it with Writer? In Migration Guide: A guide to ease your migration to OpenOffice.org from other office [suites] (2004) (http://www.openoffice.org/documentation/manuals/oooauthors/MigrationGuide.pdf), I found a few things: * AutoText entries: will the built-in method to import them still work with LibO 3.6.2?(should I get version 3.6.2 or 3.5.6, btw? I'm not sure I understand the difference.) * AutoCorrect entries: there's a work-around with a macro and the editing of a ./user/autocorr/acorr.dat file... * Custom dictionaries: there was a work-around to import their content, but the link to download the macro isn't valid anymore. Do you know of a more recent migration guide, or a tutorial on the Web, or forum post maybe? I couldn't find anything else. Thanks in advance for your help! -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
