Hi :) I find MS Word fairly hopeless at dealing with pictures. Writer seems to have a lot more sophistication especially when using native formats such as Odt. It seems to have a wider range of ways to anchor things and moving them around the page is easier.
At my main work-place they still use MS Office for most things but are now using Writer for their newsletter and beginning to look at it for other things too. Good luck with the report to MS :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 10/11/11, Jonathon Waterman <peedyswo...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Jonathon Waterman <peedyswo...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Dropped Caps - Sharing a .doc file created in LO 3.4.3 and MS Word 2007 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 10 November, 2011, 17:00 Thanks for the suggestions,Tom. The file is definitely being saved in .doc format - and it uses Garamond 11 font in both MS Word and LO. I recently installed 3.4.4 - yet have not had time to see if the incompatibility problem still exists with this latest version. I've also noticed a graphics problem whereas I would anchor a jpg in LO to a paragraph, yet when opened in MS Word - it changes position and shows it in Word as being anchored to a character. Strange. Unfortunately, I cannot save in PDF format since additional editing will be done. Thanks for your help. I'll submit the problem to MS and see if they might have an insight into what's going on. On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Tom <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi :) > Apparently the best bet is to keep the original copy of the document in Odt > format and use "Save As ..." to save in the older MS formats. Are you sure > the file is saved as Doc rather than DocX? In the "Save As ..." menu it's > the "Microsoft Word (97/2000/Xp)" option. > > Perhaps the dropped caps are a different font? One that the MS Office user > doesn't have? If you could find the fonts file and forward it to the MS > Office user they might be able to read the document properly? > > If the document only needs to be viewed by the other person and not edited > at all the Pdf would be the best format as it displays the document exactly > the way it appears on your machine. > > Again many apols that no-one was able to give any answer sooner. Hopefully > someone might have a better idea and help you soon. > Apols and regards from > Tom :) > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Dropped-Caps-Sharing-a-doc-file-created-in-LO-3-4-3-and-MS-Word-2007-tp3485160p3497203.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > 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
