Re: [libreoffice-users] Comparison issue

When I troubleshoot issues like this, I make use of .fodt filetype and then
do a side by side 'diff' in a program like winmerge or Meld. But I
typically save a 'before" file , make mods, and an "after" file, which
makes diff render usable information as to 'why'.  You want to compare a
file to another file with the same text... In theory it should work, but
it's also likely that the files don't sync together nicely at first...
especially the way Libreoffice respects no style name, renaming them
in it's own insane way that doesn't seem reproduceable.

But digging into the XML code underneath the visual text you see is the way
to get to a solution.

It's got a steep learning curve though, as Libreoffice is a child of
OpenOffice, and a great grandchild of StarOffice... so the organization of
things in Opendocument XML is a little mystifying..


On Wed, Mar 11, 2026 at 7:40 PM Chris J. <rchristopherjohnson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi.
>
>
> Never mind why. I  haven't got that far yet. That's a different question
> I'll ask later.
>
>
> I have a set of five styles, four paragraph one page, I use for story
> writing, I've saved them with the other styles clearly marked. One would
> assume when I loaded them in two documents those two documents would be
> the same would. My default style when I create a new document is this set.
>
>
> I opened an existing document which uses these styles. I create a new
> document which, by default, loads these styles and sets them up
>
>
> I copy the text from the old document and paste it in the new document.
> The old document has 14 pages. Right of the bat we a problem. The new
> document has 12 pages. I go to the first page in both and line the
> windows up with 100% magnification (lower right corner). The last
> sentence at the end of the first page isn't the same. The new document
> has two more from the old document's second page.
>
>
> I can't figure out why. Anyone have any clues where to look?
>
>
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