Re: [libreoffice-users] document conversion problems, losing formatting information.

[Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>]

Rogier,

On 04/10/2012 02:38 AM, Rogier F. van Vlissingen wrote:
> With a longish document (45 pages), which started life once as a .odt, but
> then was converted to a .doc because of a collaboration with word users, I
> revised some of the layout in a .doc format.
>
> When saving it however the change in formatting (first line indentations in
> some of the paragraphs) is lost. I discovered this when sending it to a
> colleague for editing, who opened it in Word, and did not see the indents I
> had claimed to apply.
>
> Since then, I can save the doc as .odt and preserve the indents as
> intended. I cannot however convert it to .doc, or I end up having the
> problem, and in fact in some cases word claims the document is corrupted. I
> can save it as a .doc and .docx and open it in word, but the formatting
> info is lost, and in fact, Word does not seem to give me the option to do a
> first line indentation in its style sheets, so I cannot even replicate the
> problem.
>
> The issue is the same if I do it manually or via the style sheet. It is
> lost as soon as I try to save it in .doc.
>
> I cannot seem to replicate the first line indentation in Word, because it
> does not have the option, I have found no way to work around this.
Is it possible to post a fragment of the file (if it is not sensitive) 
on Nabble or somewhere else?

Also, what version of LO are you using? I assume your OS is Windows.

--
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com


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