Thanks Paul. Since posting the original question I discovered a bug for this issue has already been reported.
Paul wrote: > For me (winXP-pro) it works sort of ok. > > Putting a picture as a tiled background to the page using OOo, saved > as .odt, then re saved as .doc. Reopening in word the background was > still there. Things that didn't work so well : > - The graphic, when displayed in word were not the same proportions as > what they were in OOo. This had nothing to do with the 'tiling' of the > picture, since I redid it and the distortion remains. Word seems to > try and stretch the graphic over the entire page. > - In word, the graphic is displayed over the whole page. In word the > graphic is only displayed over the same area as occupied by the text. > This means that you get a square of non graphic around the outside > according to the set margins. > > HTH, /paul > > On 11/9/05, Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Can someone else please check this out for me and make sure I'm not >>doing something wrong. I tried to save a document with a page background >>graphic in .DOC format. It saved the document but not the background. If >>saved in .ODT format everything saved fine. Is there some option I need >>to enable to save page backgrounds when saving in .DOC format, or have I >>hit a bug? >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
