* Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> [110123 12:58]:
> On 1/23/2011 1:32 PM, RA Brown wrote:
>> On Sun Jan 23 2011 11:00:33 GMT-0800 (PST) Tim Johnson wrote:
>
>>> <snip>
>>> So to ask the first question:
>>> Why are separate page styles not being saved?
>>>
>>> NOTE: This document is subject to very strict standards by the
>>> recipient.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>
>> First, what format are you saving the file as. ODT or DOC? If the
>> later that is the problem as OOo does not inport or export to DOC with
>> 100% fidelity and some things get lost in the translation.
>
> Good catch, Andy! Tim, Word (at least prior to Office 2007, and therefore
> in the .doc format; not sure about the newer formats) has no concept of
> page styles, so that aspect of OOo can't be carried from .odt into .doc,
> and therefore is not there when you reopen the file in Writer (when there
> is again a conversion into .odt while Writer is working on the file). So
> you should stay with .odt until you send the document off. If they accept
> .pdf files, that will be the most reliable way to make sure they see what
> you do. Otherwise, you might want to get the free viewer from Microsoft
> so you can check the .doc file, since they're so strict about the
> formatting.
:) To make a long story short, the solution was reached by
first saving to an .odt format. We found then that we could
save the finished product retaining the desired formatting.
Now: I am trying to figure out how to delete all but the
first 3 pages..... on vim all I have to do is type `vgox'
<blush> couldn't resist that one.
thanks again and good tip on the pdf format
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