2008/11/2 Barry Neilan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > First, please let me know if this is how to get my question answered. When > working in Open Office Writer and transferring documents to Microsoft Word, > I have been having some trouble. Is it possible for information to be > duplicated or deleted when transferring between the programs? Could a > paragraph or a few sentences be repeated or deleted from my document? > ~Barry Neilan >
Text that is in a regular paragraph should not be deleted when sharing a document in Open Office and MS Word. However, you are much better off exchanging PDF documents with users who do not use Open Office. Although Open Office does support the .doc and .docx formats to an extent, there are small formatting differences between the two. The next service pack will add .odf funcionality to MS Word, but I do not expect it to use OOo as a reference implementation so there will be slight formatting differences there as well. Of course, two people cannot edit a PDF document. If you need collaboration, then you should encourage the other party to install Open Office as well. There is a portable version available for users without admin privileges on their computer. I have introduced about 20 people to OOo this way, and all but one has thanked me for it. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
