[libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
Hello all, and thank you for welcoming me here. First, I'd like to address the remarks of the few people who told me that I should not fill any fuel into [my new car] even if [it] looks very similar like the old one. I am not starting my document-creating life from scratch today. I created lots of content over many years, and would like to keep using that content. There are thousands (millions?) of users like me: should all the people who used Word before OOo and LibO even existed lose the tools they've spent years perfecting? I think my migration questions are perfectly valid. And I'll go further: I think an official answer (read: documentation) should be available to all of LibO's users. Because no, not many people are born into using LibO: most are, instead, migrating from another office suite. If you want them to adopt this new software, you must help them doing so! --- Now, for what I did so far (questions in green): I opened my Normal.dot template with Writer, saved it as MyTemplate.ott. Then FilesTemplatesOrganize, selected it and made it the default template (that's exactly what Tom and Andreas recommended. Thanks!) The results: *Styles*: every new document allows me to use my former styles. All of them were imported, except for the few character styles I had: Word distinguishes between paragraph styles and character styles, and it looks like it won't let me convert a character style into a paragraph style. I'll have to re-create those in LibO (I'll make sure to read the two chapters dedicated to styles in http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/7/73/WG3400-WriterGuideLO.pdf). *Buttons*: LibO didn't import any of the buttons which referred to MS Word commands, which... makes sense, of course. I also had many buttons calling my macros, and it did not import all of them; I think it only imported the ones I had created, and not the predefined Word buttons... Although I'm not entirely sure. I'll need more custom buttons. It's nice to be able to import image files, but is there any way I could import several at once? *Toolbars*: in Word, I had 5 custom toolbars displayed out of 14. Well, LibO imported 4 toolbars, including one that wasn't displayed in Word and that I didn't really care about... No idea how it chose them. In Word, I had also placed buttons on the menu bar. It imported them, but won't let me remove them through its own interface now! ^^ *Shortcuts*: I suppose it makes perfect sense that I have to re-create those. That's alright. :) *AutoText* and *AutoCorrect* entries: I gave a method to import those in my last email... But on second thought, I won't. Instead, I will use a system-wide text expander such as Breevy or PhraseExpress, that will work in all my applications. *Custom dictionaries*: it looks like you can paste content directly in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\3\user\wordbook\DictYouJustCreated.dic, as long as you have one entry per line. No need for a macro! *Macros*, mine, the ones I actually need: I tried running several of them, and none seemed to work. It returns error messages from the first line of code every time... I must have forgotten something! In the Options, on the Load/Save / VBA Properties page, all the boxes are checked (can't remember if I did that or if that was the default). Is there any way to make that work any better? If I need to re-write / re-record everything, chapter 13 of https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/3/33/GS35-GettingStartedLO.pdfseems like a good place to start. And it provides links to other resources as well. I also found an MS Word macro to print a list of all my existing macroshttp://word.tips.net/T007423_Printing_a_Macro_List.html. That'll be useful to check them one by one as I re-create them! ^^ --- If you have ideas, comments, answers to my questions... please don't hesitate! Thanks, Kyla 2012/10/11 Kyla Robertson robertsonk...@gmail.com: 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
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
Hi :) Wow!! Looks like a lot of valuable work and some good feedback there. Perhaps something that would be good for a wiki-page? If you want to post some of the contents of some of your macros to the Users List or tell us what you wanted them to do then there might be soem help in translating them into LO macros or pointing you to existing Extensions that already do something similar. It's not really what the Users List is for but sometimes people with the rigth skills are here and get interested in the odd challenge. Regards from Tom :) From: Kyla Robertson robertsonk...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: documentat...@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sunday, 21 October 2012, 22:56 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot Hello all, and thank you for welcoming me here. First, I'd like to address the remarks of the few people who told me that I should not fill any fuel into [my new car] even if [it] looks very similar like the old one. I am not starting my document-creating life from scratch today. I created lots of content over many years, and would like to keep using that content. There are thousands (millions?) of users like me: should all the people who used Word before OOo and LibO even existed lose the tools they've spent years perfecting? I think my migration questions are perfectly valid. And I'll go further: I think an official answer (read: documentation) should be available to all of LibO's users. Because no, not many people are born into using LibO: most are, instead, migrating from another office suite. If you want them to adopt this new software, you must help them doing so! --- Now, for what I did so far (questions in green): I opened my Normal.dot template with Writer, saved it as MyTemplate.ott. Then FilesTemplatesOrganize, selected it and made it the default template (that's exactly what Tom and Andreas recommended. Thanks!) The results: *Styles*: every new document allows me to use my former styles. All of them were imported, except for the few character styles I had: Word distinguishes between paragraph styles and character styles, and it looks like it won't let me convert a character style into a paragraph style. I'll have to re-create those in LibO (I'll make sure to read the two chapters dedicated to styles in http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/7/73/WG3400-WriterGuideLO.pdf). *Buttons*: LibO didn't import any of the buttons which referred to MS Word commands, which... makes sense, of course. I also had many buttons calling my macros, and it did not import all of them; I think it only imported the ones I had created, and not the predefined Word buttons... Although I'm not entirely sure. I'll need more custom buttons. It's nice to be able to import image files, but is there any way I could import several at once? *Toolbars*: in Word, I had 5 custom toolbars displayed out of 14. Well, LibO imported 4 toolbars, including one that wasn't displayed in Word and that I didn't really care about... No idea how it chose them. In Word, I had also placed buttons on the menu bar. It imported them, but won't let me remove them through its own interface now! ^^ *Shortcuts*: I suppose it makes perfect sense that I have to re-create those. That's alright. :) *AutoText* and *AutoCorrect* entries: I gave a method to import those in my last email... But on second thought, I won't. Instead, I will use a system-wide text expander such as Breevy or PhraseExpress, that will work in all my applications. *Custom dictionaries*: it looks like you can paste content directly in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice\3\user\wordbook\DictYouJustCreated.dic, as long as you have one entry per line. No need for a macro! *Macros*, mine, the ones I actually need: I tried running several of them, and none seemed to work. It returns error messages from the first line of code every time... I must have forgotten something! In the Options, on the Load/Save / VBA Properties page, all the boxes are checked (can't remember if I did that or if that was the default). Is there any way to make that work any better? If I need to re-write / re-record everything, chapter 13 of https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/3/33/GS35-GettingStartedLO.pdfseems like a good place to start. And it provides links to other resources as well. I also found an MS Word macro to print a list of all my existing macroshttp://word.tips.net/T007423_Printing_a_Macro_List.html. That'll be useful to check them one by one as I re-create them! ^^ --- If you have ideas, comments, answers to my questions... please don't hesitate! Thanks, Kyla 2012/10/11 Kyla Robertson robertsonk...@gmail.com: 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
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
Hi :) Yes, that is the best way to migrate. Keep whatever MS Office you happen to have and install LO. There's no reason to upgrade the MS Office so you still make the saving but you still have acess to it when you need it. Gradually you find more and more reason to use LO as you learn more about how to use it and less reason to be pushed into using MSO. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 14/10/12, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote: From: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot To: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 14 October, 2012, 23:21 why not just keep both programs on the machine ;-) On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 11.10.2012 11:43, Kyla Robertson 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? 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! This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. -- 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] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
that works for me ;-) On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Yes, that is the best way to migrate. Keep whatever MS Office you happen to have and install LO. There's no reason to upgrade the MS Office so you still make the saving but you still have access to it when you need it. Gradually you find more and more reason to use LO as you learn more about how to use it and less reason to be pushed into using MSO. Regards from Tom :) From: anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot To: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 14 October, 2012, 23:21 why not just keep both programs on the machine ;-) On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.dehttp://mc/compose?to=ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 11.10.2012 11:43, Kyla Robertson 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? 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! This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. -- 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] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
why not just keep both programs on the machine ;-) On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 11.10.2012 11:43, Kyla Robertson 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? 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! This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. -- 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
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It works for me ;-) On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Hi :) Hmmm, i would try opening the template and then do File - Save As .. and save the document as an OpenDocument Format template. I'm not sure if it would work but it's got to be worth trying. Regards from Tom :) From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012, 13:27 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot Am 11.10.2012 11:43, Kyla Robertson 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? 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! This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. -- 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
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and Snow White lives ;-) On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Hi :) And all the offices will close and money will cease to be important and there will be peace and happiness everywhere like Star Trek. Regards from Tom :) From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012, 17:59 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot Am 11.10.2012 18:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. And with that attitude on a help list, LO is never likely to become any sort of threat to MS Office, is it? Personally, I do not want to threat anybody or anything. This software will never be any thread to anybody else's commercial product. When MS Office dies, LibreOffice will die as well simply because more and more people learn that nobody ever needed dinosaurs like these so called productivity suites. It is very different from what some people expect and somebody needs to tell about it to avoid hours of frustration. -- 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
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and Henry Ford was building indestructible cars fueled with clean, efficient energy - all from a simple to grow plant; then the federal gov't stepped in at the behest of Rockefeller's oil industry and those factories were shut down. Supposedly the Dutch are now growing this plant; will others follow - that's the $64,000 question ;-) On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 11.10.2012 19:59, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) And all the offices will close and money will cease to be important and there will be peace and happiness everywhere like Star Trek. Regards from Tom :) However, Kyla R. asked how to fuel up her new e-car and the answer is that you must not fill any fuel into it even if the car looks very similar like the old one. -- 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
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I agree. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Dr. R. O Stapf reinh...@stapf-online.comwrote: On 12.10.2012 01:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. And with that attitude on a help list, LO is never likely to become any sort of threat to MS Office, is it? I also would like to comment on the All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well.. I entirely switch over to LO and find especially Writer better than Word. The styles-functionality in Writer is great. About 2 years ago I had to put a master thesis in the right format and it was a nightmare and a huge workload in WORD. In Writer I assume I could have done it in a fraction of the time and without much headaches. What want to say is it would be nice if users of LO, who do not understand ALL the features and functionality of LO AND MSO are be careful with such negative statements. However if there are bugs or requests for new features, they should be expressed and reported. This helps LO to become more known. -- 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
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On 12.10.2012 01:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. And with that attitude on a help list, LO is never likely to become any sort of threat to MS Office, is it? I also would like to comment on the All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well.. I entirely switch over to LO and find especially Writer better than Word. The styles-functionality in Writer is great. About 2 years ago I had to put a master thesis in the right format and it was a nightmare and a huge workload in WORD. In Writer I assume I could have done it in a fraction of the time and without much headaches. What want to say is it would be nice if users of LO, who do not understand ALL the features and functionality of LO AND MSO are be careful with such negative statements. However if there are bugs or requests for new features, they should be expressed and reported. This helps LO to become more known. -- 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
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Am 13.10.2012 16:37, Dr. R. O Stapf wrote: On 12.10.2012 01:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. And with that attitude on a help list, LO is never likely to become any sort of threat to MS Office, is it? I also would like to comment on the All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well.. I entirely switch over to LO and find especially Writer better than Word. The styles-functionality in Writer is great. About 2 years ago I had to put a master thesis in the right format and it was a nightmare Read again the original posting. This is not about better or worse. It is about how to transform a customized WinWord setup to Writer. WinWord and Writer are completely different applications. There is no normal.dot, templates and styles are differently organized, the API is completely incompatible. Any sort of compatibility with WinWord is about loading .doc files fairly well. This is much more than most other text processing applications can do in respect to Word files. Then there is a highly experimental macro compatibility which tries to map the WinWord elements in VBA to elements of its own API. As far as I know, no other software tries to run macros of some other application and in most cases this does not really work. Same with loading .docx files. -- 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
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Hi :) Hmmm, i would try opening the template and then do File - Save As .. and save the document as an OpenDocument Format template. I'm not sure if it would work but it's got to be worth trying. Regards from Tom :) From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012, 13:27 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot Am 11.10.2012 11:43, Kyla Robertson 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? 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! This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. -- 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
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On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. And with that attitude on a help list, LO is never likely to become any sort of threat to MS Office, is it? -- 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
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Am 11.10.2012 18:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. And with that attitude on a help list, LO is never likely to become any sort of threat to MS Office, is it? Personally, I do not want to threat anybody or anything. This software will never be any thread to anybody else's commercial product. When MS Office dies, LibreOffice will die as well simply because more and more people learn that nobody ever needed dinosaurs like these so called productivity suites. It is very different from what some people expect and somebody needs to tell about it to avoid hours of frustration. -- 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] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
Hi :) And all the offices will close and money will cease to be important and there will be peace and happiness everywhere like Star Trek. Regards from Tom :) From: Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012, 17:59 Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot Am 11.10.2012 18:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. And with that attitude on a help list, LO is never likely to become any sort of threat to MS Office, is it? Personally, I do not want to threat anybody or anything. This software will never be any thread to anybody else's commercial product. When MS Office dies, LibreOffice will die as well simply because more and more people learn that nobody ever needed dinosaurs like these so called productivity suites. It is very different from what some people expect and somebody needs to tell about it to avoid hours of frustration. -- 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
[libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot
Am 11.10.2012 19:59, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) And all the offices will close and money will cease to be important and there will be peace and happiness everywhere like Star Trek. Regards from Tom :) However, Kyla R. asked how to fuel up her new e-car and the answer is that you must not fill any fuel into it even if the car looks very similar like the old one. -- 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
