Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Trial of LibreOffice

Hi :)
There is no harm in having both LibreOffice and OpenOffice installed
alongside each other.  Mostly i tend to find they are so much the same that
either will do, although i have a slight preference for LibreOffice.

I found these guides to be the best help with LibreOffice;
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications

Chapter 3 of the "Getting Started Guide" helps a lot with styles and
formatting but a long-term user of OpenOffice might not find anything
hugely new or different.

I tend to find most documents written with MS Office a pita tbh.  I tend to
just copy&paste as "unformatted text" into a new document and then apply my
own formatting.  Back when i used to use MS Office too it would take hours,
even days, to reformat even a 1-2 page document to fit into the
newsletter.  Using "paste as plain text" (or as unformatted text) helped
quite a lot but LibreOffice/OpenOffice's "Styles" made such work take just
a few minutes.  I'm not sure what i'd do if the document was many pages
long or highly complex though.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 30 September 2016 at 13:16, Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Le 30/09/2016 à 13:19, Alwyn a écrit :
>
> > The formatting issue remains to be resolved.
>
> What can I say, the format painter uses hard formatting, and that is
> frowned upon by those who use styles ;-)
>
> It may of course be a bug in the format painter, searching in the
> LibreOffice bugzilla might enable you to find out if others have had the
> same problem.
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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