Stick with Microsoft. I spent more time than I cared to sorting this out & eventually replaced software & older much loved hardware at an extremely awkward time.
Not helped by a troll & disappearing & impossible to copy emails. (If you get a bizarre email sent to you personally through this group print it out as proof) Still love OO but eventually... All the best Lucetta > On Mar 22, 2020, at 12:50 AM, Stan Hendryx <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m evaluating migrating to OpenOffice from MSO, using a MacBook Pro with > Mojave, MSO Office Mac 2011. I’m new to OpenOffice. I work on documents > collaboratively with others who use MSO, so my edits need to be transparent > to them in style and layout. My first trial had serious problems. I opened a > .docx document in OpenOffice 4.1.7. The original document comprises multiple > tables, one table per section, each table being about one or two pages or so, > total 60 pages. When opened in OpenOffice, the font was changed from Times > New Roman to Calibri. The footers do not show in OpenOffice, although they > are listed and checked under Insert->Footer as Converted1-Converted59. The > text boxes were missing. The number of pages was 57 instead of the original > 60 (possibly due to the missing footers). Are these problems endemic, or is > there a way to avoid them, have my documents look the same as in MSO? > Advice? > Thank you, > Stan Hendryx > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
