[libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-11 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 11.10.2012 11:43, Kyla Robertson wrote: > Hello, > > I'm migrating from MS Word (Office 2002 !) to LibO Writer. In Word, my > Normal.dot template contains many, many things: about 150 styles, 250 > macros, some auto-insert texts, some custom shortcuts, many toolbars > and custom buttons. > > H

[libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-11 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 11.10.2012 18:08, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Hmmm, i would try opening the template and then do > File - "Save As .. " > and save the document as an OpenDocument Format template. I'm not sure if it > would work but it's got to be worth trying. > Regards from > Tom :) > > No, it should

[libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-11 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 11.10.2012 18:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: >> >> This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading >> .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with >> WinWord. >> >> > And with that attitude on a help list

[libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-11 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 11.10.2012 19:59, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > And all the offices will close and money will cease to be important and there > will be peace and happiness everywhere like Star Trek. > Regards from > Tom :) > However, Kyla R. asked how to fuel up her new e-car and the answer is that you mu

[libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-13 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 13.10.2012 16:37, Dr. R. O Stapf wrote: > > On 12.10.2012 01:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: >> On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: >>> >>> This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading >>> .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with >>> W

[libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-21 Thread Kyla Robertson
Hello all, and thank you for welcoming me here. First, I'd like to address the remarks of the few people who told me that I should not "fill any fuel into [my new car] even if [it] looks very similar like the old one". I am not starting my document-creating life from scratch today. I created lots

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Andreas Säger >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012, 13:27 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, >macros, toolbars from Normal.dot > >Am 11.10.2012 11:43, Kyla Robertson wrote: >> Hello, >> >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-11 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. And with that attitude on a help list, LO is never likely to become any sort of threat to MS Office, is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
ber 2012, 17:59 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, >macros, toolbars from Normal.dot > >Am 11.10.2012 18:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: >> On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: >>> >>> This is not a free clone

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-13 Thread Dr. R. O Stapf
On 12.10.2012 01:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading .doc files fairly well. Please switch to this software or stay with WinWord. And with that attitude on a help list, LO is never l

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-14 Thread anne-ology
why not just keep both programs on the machine ;-) On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Andreas Säger wrote: Am 11.10.2012 11:43, Kyla Robertson wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm migrating from MS Word (Office 2002 !) to LibO Writer. In Word, my > > Normal.dot template contains many, many thin

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-14 Thread anne-ology
it's got to be worth trying. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > > > > From: Andreas Säger > >To: users@global.libreoffice.org > >Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012, 13:27 > >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my > styles

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-14 Thread anne-ology
> > From: Andreas Säger > >To: users@global.libreoffice.org > >Sent: Thursday, 11 October 2012, 17:59 > >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my > styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot > > > >Am 11.10.2012 18:36, Gor

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-14 Thread anne-ology
and Henry Ford was building indestructible cars fueled with clean, efficient energy - all from a simple to grow plant; then the federal gov't stepped in at the behest of Rockefeller's oil industry and those factories were shut down. Supposedly the Dutch are now growing thi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-14 Thread anne-ology
I agree. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Dr. R. O Stapf wrote: > On 12.10.2012 01:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > >> On 11/10/12 13:27, Andreas Säger wrote: >> >>> >>> This is not a free clone of some other program. All it can do is loading >>> .doc files fairly well. Please switch

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
more about how to use it and less reason to be pushed into using MSO.  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Sun, 14/10/12, anne-ology wrote: From: anne-ology Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot To: "Andreas Säger&q

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-15 Thread anne-ology
have access to it when you need it. > Gradually you find more and more reason to use LO as you learn more about > how to use it and less reason to be pushed into using MSO. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > From: anne-ology > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, macros, toolbars from Normal.dot

2012-10-21 Thread Tom Davies
m Tom :)  > > From: Kyla Robertson >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Cc: documentat...@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Sunday, 21 October 2012, 22:56 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: From MS Word to Writer: keeping my styles, >macros, toolbars from Normal.dot > >Hello all