I've not seen tables-of-content move between Microsoft Word and ODF documents very well, in either direction. (But I have not dug into it enough to conquer whatever the limitations are, either.)
Say more about what you are doing and where you need to end up. Are you attempting to edit a dissertation using LibreOffice exclusively? Then you might want to have it as an .odt (not .doc) until the last possible minute. If you need to turn it in as a .doc, you might need to find a copy of Microsoft Office for a final edit, adjustment of the table of contents, etc. Or are you at the front end where you are starting with a model in .doc and want to replicate its table of content styles, etc., for continuing in LibreOffice? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Rob Harriman [mailto:rob.harri...@btinternet.com] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 13:37 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office Hi Tom, Thanks to you and the others who responded to my query. It made interesting reading. As suggested below I have installed Libre Office 3.4.2 in parallel with the default version of LO supplied under Ubuntu 11.04. I understand that things aren't always going to be right with .docx files so I have taken the thesis document I'm currently interested in and have converted it to .doc as suggested. Now when I look at this in LO (either version) it is not picking up all of the Table of Content entries. The original TOC was set up to pick up all Heading 1 through Heading 4 entries. I have tried using Tools - Outline Numbering - Numbering to define Heading 1 through Heading 4 entries, but this appears to have made no difference. Can anyone suggest what I should be using here please, or how I use this process to get these headings picked up? Also does this mean that I have to set this each time I look at different documents or is there a way of setting LO so that it automatically picks up all headers e.g 1 through 9 as a matter of course. Basically I am not really sure what Tools - Outline Numbering is supposed to do, or what the thinking is behind how TOCs are handled in LO. Can anyone enlighten me please? Thanks Rob On 12/08/11 21:21, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Yes, it does crop up quite often but it is still a legitimate question. > > Ideally convert things to doc format if that is possible. DocX is designed to > be incompatible with non-MS products imo. However the LibreOffice 3.4.2 often > does a better job of read/writing docXs than the 3.3.3 but having both is > possible if you follow this guide > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel > Still neither is perfect at it so trying to stick with Doc is better. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > ________________________________ > From: Rob Harriman<rob.harri...@btinternet.com> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Sent: Fri, 12 August, 2011 19:59:56 > Subject: [libreoffice-users] MS Word .docx formatting in Libre Office > > Hi, > Am a newbie to Libre Office so apologies if this has been answered elsewhere. > > When I load .docx files into Office 3 for view/edit the formatting is shot to > pieces and the Table of Contents is not picked up when included in the > original. > It appears that .doc files are loading ok. > I thought that .docx files were supported by LO. Apologies if this assumption > is > incorrect. > > Is there anything that I can do to address these formatting issues, or must I > convert these .docx files to .doc format before reading them in LO? > Thanks > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
