Ross Johnson wrote:
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 09:14 -0600, Thomas W. Cranston wrote:
I have had a lot of grief using open office to open MS Word documents.
My experience is that when the MS Word documents that have been opened
by OO, they become jumbled after being opened again by MS Word.
Only if you open them in OOo and then save them again as MS Word format.
Don't do that!
OOo warns you when you try to save document opened from a foreign format
and offers to save it in the OOo format. Please read the warning
carefully. If you save using the OOo format your original will be left
unchanged.
The warning is fairly long, and (from memory) I think the safety action
requires a 'No' answer (a negative response, which I think is
unintuitive - but then my opinions often contradict common sense).
Okay, this brings up a question which is a curiosity for me but may be
vital to others: if you are using OOo in a primarily MS Office
environment, as the OP seems to be planning to, what is the best way to
translate documents back and forth? In such an environment, you would be
constantly getting MS Office documents, working on them in OOo, and then
saving them to return to a person using MS Office again.
I haven't experimented much with this, but Ross's answer suggests that
it might be best to save an incoming MS Office document as its
corresponding OOo format, work on it, save it in its native OOo format,
then save it again as its corresponding MS Office type before handing it
off (or back) to the next person who needs it. Does that method work okay?
Hoping the answer helps someone,
Kira
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