If you can submit a pdf that would be nice.  In that case what you see is 
_definitely_ what you get.  I generally send documents in pdf format unless I 
expect that someone will want to modify things (like a contract to a new 
customer -- folks just can't keep their hands off of those).

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Doug Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date:  Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:09:51 -0600

>If the paper will be rejected if there are errors and if rejection means 
>loss of income or other penalties, why on Earth would you not go over it 
>prior to submittal even if the document had been originally prepared in 
>MSWord?  Admittedly, my experience with MSW is limited to MSO97 and is 
>severely out of date, but I can remember many documents that had only 
>limited resemblance to the original when re-opened, let alone being 
>opened on the other end of an email exchange.
>
>The problem with creating in OOo and exporting to MSO is that achieving 
>identical rendering is a function of reverse engineering a closed and 
>proprietary file format that is intentionally obfuscated.  Mistakes happen.
>
>But, as Clint might say, "You feelin' lucky, Prof?"
>
>Doug
>
>Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
>> If I submit electronically a paper with footnotes and cross-references
>> which was composed in OOo 1.1.4 and convert it to Word format, will the
>> conversion work or should I go over the whole thing before submitting it?
>> 
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