On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, Tom Williams wrote: > Hi! I have a Word document that I downloaded from an online Sharepoint > site that appears mis-formatted in LibreOffice Writer 6.2.7.1 on Ubuntu > 19.04 Linux. It appears as if the page breaks are off. In any event, > the document is a legal document so I'm not willing to post the document > "as is" in a bug report, if I end up filing one. > > What would be a good alternative to preserve the information that shows > the formatting issues but not include the other legal information, in > the document? > > Thanks in advance!
One possibility is to replace all characters by something else. For example, in Find & Replace, turn on 'Regular expressions' (under 'Other options') and replace '[a-z]' by 'x'. When you say 'the page breaks are off', do you mean that the page breaks occur in different places? Are they off by only a little? Maybe it's because the document uses a font that your system doesn't have so the font is being replaced by a font with slightly different font metrics? I believe that sometimes the formatting won't be quite the same even between different versions of Word, much less between Word and another word processor. - Robert -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
