Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

Hi :)
Lol!!  Welcome back e-letter!  

It seems a lot of things can be recovered and adapted for use with LO.  You don't have to start 
again from scratch and refuse to do business with the entre rest of the world until they start 
migrating away from MS.  If you did then LO would get nowhere. 

It is a good idea to keep your versions of your documents in LO formats = OpenDocument Formats such 
as odt, as those are native to the apps.  It would mean you can rely on them much more.  If/when 
you have to collaborate or present your documents to non-LO users then it's best to do "Save As .." 
to save into the older MS formats (or the newer ones but they are a bit less predictable between 
different versions of MSO) such as doc (or Pdf if they don't need o be able to be edited).  

Note that Google-docs, Calligra, Lotus Symphony, AbiWord and all the rest use OpenDocument Formats 
as their default native formats too.  Even MS Office is starting to pretend to allow people to use 
OpenDocument Formats although their implementation is a bit broken (what else would you expect from 
MS right?).  

Regards from
Tom :)  





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> Sent: Monday, 15 October 2012, 11:49
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from 
> Normal.dot
>
> On 11/10/2012, Kyla Robertson <robertsonkyla@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm migrating from MS Word (Office 2002 !) to LibO Writer. In Word, my
> > Normal.dot template contains many, many things: about 150 styles, 250
> > macros, some auto-insert texts, some custom shortcuts, many toolbars
> > and custom buttons.
> >
> > How can I keep this all to use it with Writer?
>
> You can't. Nor should you.
>
> LO is not m$. Create all your styles (not macros, they are terrible
> functions to use) in LO, creating native odf files. Perform a
> cost-benefit analysis of your time to learn LO, the advantages of odf,
> etc. and compare to the cost of using m$ and decide which to use
> accordingly.
>
> Do not use LO as a free opportunity to write and create m$ documents.
> Search this mailing archive for previous posts on this ad nauseum
> topic.
>
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