[libreoffice-users] problems with document conversion

this problem just bit me in my job hunt. Apparently for the past two or three 
months, I've been sending out resumes and cover letters in Microsoft Word DOC 
format and they were garbled sometimes simply margin errors sometimes completely 
unreadable. Usually, I started with the standard odt format and converted to 
doc. occasionally I would do couple revisions in the .doc form and then convert 
back to ODF for my baseline. I was  using  revisions 3.5.0 and 3.5.1

this really hurts because there were a lot of really good jobs that I qualified 
for but didn't get any responses to. I'm not saying that the document conversion 
problem was the sole cause but it didn't help my application any. :-)

what I need help with is determining if conversion is going to be an ongoing 
problem in which point, I migrate to Jarta or equivalent. If it's not an ongoing 
problem, was it a procedural one. That I did something wrong in the handling of 
documents that caused it to become corrupt? For example, should I always start 
with the odt format and convert out words to PDF and DOC? And last, is detection 
of a failed conversion? Would it make sense for me to use jarta to verify 
document conversion.

if it is a procedural error and I need to start from odt as the primary source, 
is there any way to automate the production of alternative formats? For example, 
if I'm saving a file, can I also do document conversion at the  same time and 
save both PDF and DOC format files.

Thank you for any help in resolving this problem.

--- eric

PS no, PDF is not always a solution. Many agencies and companies here in the 
states only accept doc/docx format documents

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