At 15:24 03/06/2008 -0700, Denise Cadicamo wrote:
I am in OpenOffice 2.4 with Windows XP. Working in Writer with tables. My original question asked how to write sideways. It was answered and I have done it but it won't stay. When I close the document and then come back to it the writing is turned back again. It is most frustrating. I am again working in a document that was changed from Word to OOo 2.4 when I converted. I went in and used format-character-position-90%-ok. Then close, open and it is back to the way it was before.
I've experimented a bit with this, and I think the answer is just that text rotation and tables do not convert well to Microsoft Word (.doc) format. If I put rotated text in table, as you describe, and save this as a .doc file, I don't get consistent results. Depending on exactly what I try, the document generally does not display properly in the (free) Microsoft Word Viewer, and it may or may not display properly if I reopen this file in Writer. The OpenOffice help text does say that "[t]ables, frames, and multi-column formatting" are amongst "features that may cause conversion challenges" with Microsoft Office.
You say this document was "changed from Word to OOo 2.4 when I converted". But I suspect that, although you opened a .doc file in Writer (and therefore converted it in a sense), you may have been saving the document as .doc - in other words, still in Microsoft Word format. This way, you are effectively repeatedly converting the format to and fro each time you save and reopen the document; this process will be subject to problems if you use facilities that do not transfer well between the formats.
If this is so, use File | Save As... and select "ODF Text Document (.odt)" to save a new version of your document. Reopen and edit this as necessary. If you intend to print your document, your problem will almost certainly be solved.
If you need to send the document is to others without OpenOffice but with Microsoft Word, you may (since you appear to be using Windows) wish to install the free Word Viewer from the Microsoft web site. You can then save a .doc version of your final version and see how it may appear in Microsoft Word. It may be that you can adjust your document or try other techniques for text rotation in order that your final version displays correctly in Microsoft Word. Another, and possibly better, route may be to export your final result as PDF instead. PDF files are more robust to changes of platform, application software, and so on. (That's what the"P" stands for!)
I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
