On 7/19/07, dax702 <dax702 at cox.net> wrote: > > Yes, you understand the problem perfectly. The soft returns created by > reaching the end of the line while typing convert to hard returns. I > couldn't think of how to articulate what exactly was happening.. I've used > Open Office before, it was a while ago. As I recall, their .wpd import > filter wasn't all that great. Perhaps it has improved by now.. I'll check > out OO again unless someone has another suggestion where I don't need > another piece of software?
Am I misremembering or wasn't there a way to save Word and WP files as two different types of plain-text, one of which exported soft returns as spaces rather than interpreting them as hard returns? (It's been a while since playing with either, but I thought there was a better way to export/save as...) -- Ubuntu Linux DC LoCo Washington, DC http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/
