Re: [libreoffice-users] advice

Hi :)

Glad to hear all that.  I keep being told that MicroSquish Office doesn't do 
these weird things but your experience corroborates mine :)

I tend to avoid text-boxes and just keep it simple, as simple as possible but 
with formatting.  Yes, pictures do seem to jump around but by putting them 
inline and formatted as simply as possible tends to mean its easy to drag them 
back into the right places.

Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Richard L. Hess <lists@richardhess.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 28 December, 2010 18:19:00
Subject: 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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