Re: [libreoffice-users] advice

For a very long time, the U.S. Government used Word Perfect over MS 
Office. I was doing a lot of Gov't contract work in the 1980s and 1990s 
and had to convert everything to Word Perfect (or write in it). I think 
with Windows, they went to MS Office. Word Perfect moved from Utah to 
Canada sometime when Corel bought them and it does, indeed, have a loyal 
following here, but the one user (a writer/editor) who I help support 
who bemoans her loss of WP to live in an MS-centric world also is upset 
over the loss of Eudora for Thunderbird.

As far as title pages go, I don't even see compatibility with "fancy" 
graphics among installs of MS Office of the same alleged version (i.e. 
2003 to 2003) on different machines or on different printers. My two 
boys have come up with constructs in MS Word that self-corrupt and other 
things. I don't think they've switched between 2003 and 2007, but 
perhaps. I found I could only open one document in Word 2010 that my 
younger son had created in 2003.

For some reason, teachers are impressed with doodads and geegaws on 
title pages.

I find complete compatibility between MS Word and LO or OOO when I 
carefully use styles and have strict adherence to straight-line text. 
Once I start placing images or other stuff, then all bets are off. I've 
seen many corruptions in Word over the  years from my writer/editor 
friend. I even rescued the text of an entire book for a church minister 
in the late 1990s from a Word corruption. We lost the formatting but 
recovered all the text and it went on to be published.

A thought for your title pages: make a jpg or png graphic that you drop 
in for most/all of it--but even then, mixing a graphic with text can 
create some unexpected results, especially if you treat it other than an 
"inline with text" arrangement.

Based on my now-more-limited use of a word processor, so far, I do think 
that Word 2010 is the most stable version yet, especially running under 
Windows 7, but I'm trying to wean myself from the MS products and am 
using LO far more and with fine results. There are enough differences in 
menu structure/ways of doing things (though not as much as between Word 
2003 and Word 2007) in LO/OOO that I'd prefer not to go back and forth.

However, if you work in a Word environment--as I tell my writer/editor 
friend--your best bet is using the same version of Word as your client 
is using. My favourite version of Word is 2003, as it is the one I've 
used the most and know the best.

Cheers,

Richard

On 2010-12-28 10:08 AM, bill topp wrote:
> i don't use openoffice.  with the exception of some screwball canadians who
> appear to be using wordperfect every individual to whom i send a business
> document uses microsoft word.  i am a wordsmith, i have little use for
> graphics.  however my document headings are formatted to give a decent title
> page.  i found that when i created a simple title page in openoffice and
> saved it in .doc format and then opened it with my microsoft word even the
> simple text box and drawn black lines came back scrambled.  when i opened a
> word document in openoffice it looked perfect, but then when i simply saved
> it and re-opened it in word it was scrambled again.

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