Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Dropped Caps - Sharing a .doc file created in LO 3.4.3 and MS Word 2007

Thanks for sharing the info. Pedro.

Fortunately I have found the cause of this problem and it could be listed
as a user error.

Needless to say after using MS Word for roughly 17 years I know it better
than L.O. - which I recently have started to use as my full time word
processor.

Anyhow - in MS Word - You can create a drop cap at the beginning of a one
line, short sentence. Tonight, I discovered that does not hold true to
either OpenOffice or LibreOffice.

Its seems for either OO or LO - you have to have a paragraph with a minimal
of three lines of text in order for Drop Cap to work properly.

I really with L.O. had a LibreOffice 3.4 Manual for Dummies available so
extreme novices to the program could easily learn each program/feature
within L.O.

The only manual I have seen so far is for L.O. 3.3 and it is definitely not
written in a simplistic manner.

Thanks again for your help.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com> wrote:

> Jonathon Waterman wrote:
> > In doing further testing - I have also discovered if you install
> > OpenOffice
> > 3.3.0 - the problem exists there, as well. Ironically, whatever is
> causing
> > this does not affect MS Word 2007.
> >
> > Apparently, LO 3.4.4. has shut off some Drop Cap setting which affects
> all
> > versions of L.O and OO.
>
> I can always set a Dropcap in a paragraph. The funny part is that if I save
> the document as ODT it will not retain the font used for the Drop Cap
> because it doesn't save the Character Style (it shows as [None] on reload).
> Saving the document as DOC keeps the correct formatting. LOL
>
> In the attached files the Drop Cap is formatted as Times New Roman and the
> text as Arial. In my PC if I open the ODT file again it will show the Drop
> Cap as Arial while the DOC file shows as TNR.
>
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3498751/dropcap.odt dropcap.odt
> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3498751/dropcap.doc dropcap.doc
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