I have been trying out OOo for some months and am persevering with it, although I have several issues which prevent me from switching over completely.
But I have one thing that's bugging me, and I hope someone can help. I'm using OOo 2.3 and Microsoft Office 2000. I need to switch frequently between the 2 programs when using both Writer/Word and Calc/Excel. Files that have been formatted in OOo (eg, highlighting text in Writer, highlighting cells in Calc or applying special date formats to cells in Calc) cannot be formatted differently in Word or Excel. For example, text highlighting applied in Writer cannot be removed in Word -- I have to retype it! Similarly, cell highlighting applied in Calc cannot be removed in Excel. And new rows inserted in an Excel file take on the format (eg, a custom date format) applied in Calc to adjacent cells and that format cannot be modified in Excel by using Format > Cell or the Format Painter. Can anyone suggest an reason or, better still, a solution? Lindsay Graham Canberra, Australia --------------------------------------------- Please reply only to the list so that all may benefit.
