Hi :) It is fairly easy to have both office suites. Both are free and relatively light on resources. For your line of work it's probably best to have a few different suites and programs for the next couple of years until things settle down a bit. All the non-MS tend to be quite consistent with each other but many people are still on MS Office and that seems to continue causing these problems with formats.
Are you sure it is Doc rather than the newer DocX? The newer one is different for each different version of MS Office so different programs are each better at dealing with different versions of that particular format. People asking for the older MS format might well be using OpenOffice, LibreOffice, Google-docs, Caligra/KOffice, Lotus Symphony or any of the other programs and suites that natively use ODF. They mostly ask for the older MS format because it's easier for them than the newer MS format. So, it might be worth asking some of them if they would prefer ODF instead. Regards from Tom :) On 24 April 2014 22:15, john Culleton <j...@wexfordpress.com> wrote: > In general I use anything in preference to KDE > Office apps, but a recent instruction received > from a publisher in doc format was read more > accurately in Calligra Word than in Libre Office > 4.1. > > Specifically italic type was reproduced in > oversized sans-serif bold face in Libre but was > reproduced in oversized slanted type in Calligra. > I misunderstood the publisher's desires until I > used Calligra. He wants italics which is what I > normally would have used in the particular > situation in an index. > > Also in Libre certain bold face passages were > interpreted as larger sans-serif type > which caused some text to over print other text. > > Neither program scored 100% but Calligra came > closer. So I will give it a closer look. > > Doc format is not my favorite choice of course but > some customers insist on it. > > Copies of the original doc file are available on > request. > > > -- > John Culleton > Wexford Press > Free list of books for self-publishers: > http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html > PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus" > available at > http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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 > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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
