On Jan 27, 2009, at 23:09, Matt Needles wrote:
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
Le 23.01.2009 06:34, Matt Needles a écrit :
Using OOo 3.0.0 on Windows XP Pro SP3.
Why, after so long a time, cannot we export a Writer document
that has footers to a MSWord document and expect the result to
have the footers?
Also, why does not Writer export page styles to MSWord?
Hi,
where do you find "page styles" in MS-Word ? Is it a new feature
in MS-Word 2007 ? As far as I know page style is unknown in doc
file format.
Regards
JBF
I believe that Word does not support page styles. I base this on
things that I read recently, rather than any specific knowledge
from using Word. I never expect a document using complicated page
styles in OOo to move nicely to Word, or at least have any ability
to move back and forth between the two using MS Office.
You're right. MSWord does not support page styles. I had assumed
that it did; you know, supposedly the 900-pound gorilla of word
processors :). Anyway, the MS Office Online site shows a convoluted
way of getting different headers / footers on different pages. Our
way is SO much simpler!
Thanks,
Matt Needles
One of the biggest problems in getting used to OOo when coming from MS
Word or similar programs is this big difference in approach to the
document.
MS Word is a "word processor" and it's basic orientation is the word.
It is unstructured. It is great for banging out a short one or two
page stand alone document. You can do what you want anywhere you want
without affecting other things.
OOo writer is a document processor and while MS Word is more like a
flexible typewriter, OOo is more like Framemaker. OOo writer's basic
orientation is the whole document. That is why the structure with
styles, etc. OOo is good for short one or two page documents, but can
do long documents as well as maintaing a style across documents,
something that a business would consider valuable in maintaining a
consistent image.
I once tried to do a long document in MS Word and gave up after just a
few pages. I used Word Perfect at the time which went a lot further.
If I were to do it again, I would either use OOo or Scribus or a
combination of both.
Ross Bernheim
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