Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-15 Thread e-letter
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-15 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
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

Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
:)  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

Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-14 Thread anne-ology
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