Re: [libreoffice-users] My organization is new to Libre. Looking for cheat sheets

Paul Auger wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> We are brand new to Libre. We are used to MS office. Is there a "cheat
> sheet" that says "If you do this in office these here the steps you need to
> take to do the same thing in Libre?"

Not sure about that; hopefully others can help there.

I've always found LibreOffice very similar to MS Office (at least up to 
MS Office 2003, before they introduced those "ribbon" toolbars). About 
the only thing that kept catching me out was that Format > Page in 
LibreOffice was at File > Page Setup in MS Office. Opposite way round to 
you though - having got used to LibreOffice, I always had to think about 
where to find the page formatting options in MS Office! (and it never 
did make sense that page formatting was on the File menu when character 
and paragraph formatting were on a Format menu...)

> Also we have noticed that when we
> import documents especially those with tables the formatting  is altered.
> any advice?

For various reasons, the older MS Office .doc, .xls and .ppt formats 
generally import into LibreOffice better than the newer .docx, .xlsx and 
.pptx formats. So if your files are in those newer formats, try using MS 
Office to save them into the older format (File > Save As and choose the 
older format, probably called something like "Microsoft Office 2003", 
for the "Save as type" option). Then import that older-format file into 
LibreOffice.

It does mean you need MS Office to do the conversion, but a medium or 
large organisation would probably want to keep a couple of MS Office 
licenses anyway, to ensure they can access historical files, even once 
the majority of the organisation has transitioned to LibreOffice. One of 
the benefits of the Open Document Format used by LibreOffice (and other 
open source office applications) is that you're not reliant on one 
company's product to be able to access your old files in future.

Mark.

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