Well, you seem to be quite demanding. As you say yourself, even Word
puts some things to the wrong place. So you can't expect a conversion
(whatever) to be perfect. I would try do the following : cut the
existing Word document into, say 10 parts, and try the conversion for
each of them. I would not expect that your big table will be converted
correctly, and in any case, a conversion (whatever) of such a complex
document must be followed by a lot of work. I myself observed that
sometimes tables are not converted at all, but are skipped. If someone
can effectively advise you for the way in which you can obtain the best
conversion, you are a happy man.
Marc H.
Tony a écrit :
" WRITER can of course read all your old Microsoft Word documents ..." it
says.
So as part of my testing to see if I will be able to change from MS to OOo
apps, I tried to import a large and complex Word document into Writer. This
is a severe test but it's a genuine document that I worked on a while back
and might need to revise. It is master file of a book with an enormous
table and lots of footnotes (some of which Word, incidentally, puts in the
wrong place because of a bug). File size in Word is about 5 MB. Write
seems to finish importing but then freezes completely and does not even show
any of the text.
This might be an unfair test, so my question is: what sort of limits are
there on what can be imported? Obviously if I can't import such a file I
will have to keep Word going, and this will be a nuisance when I change my
PC.
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