Hi Kim: I think what you are seeing is the total garbage that Microsoft puts out. I don't use Word or Office because I have a Mac, and putting that junk on my Mac would be sacrilegious. I do use WordPerfect on a PC and have for many years, when importing or opening a WP doc in Word it is always screwed up. Taking the same doc from WP into OO works fine. Just my 2 cents worth-Joe
On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:43 PM, kwalsh2004 wrote: > Hello - > > I am writing to every e-mail address I could find on your Contact Us/Help > page on your web site. I teach computers part time at two small private > elementary schools - and one of them couldn't afford the licenses of MS > Office, so we've been using Open Office. I found it to lacking in all the > things that would make it easier for these younger kids to learn the > application, like Clip art, page borders, etc. > > That aside, I am writing to tell you of my latest issue. I usually use MS > Word at home to write up my lesson plans, but last week, I updated the > page in Open Office Writer and saved it in the same format (MS Word), not OO > Writer. When I tried to open it today, in MS Word (my home computer) - none > of the text in my table is there - 99% of it has dissappeared! The onlything > left was my headers and 29 blank pages (it was only one page when I saved > it). > > I had to download Open Office on my home computer, where I was able to open > the Word document in Writer. When I copied the table into a new Word > document, it was all messed up - the rows and columns were not the size they > appeared in Writer (or the original Word document), so I spent about 30-45 > minutes to fix one of my lesson plans so that it look like I had it > originally. I have 4 total to fix. There was a one-page plan for each week > (Jan. 25th and Feb1st), and each had 3 columns (one for the class period > times, and one for each day that I teach: Tuesday and Thursday and the other > was Wednesday and Friday), and one school had 10 rows and the other had 11. > Now I have to fix the other two, and I don't really have 3-4 hours to waste > fixing this. It's been a struggle with the kids, but I have learned my > lesson - I will never use Open Office for any of my personal and > professional documents. > > Kim Walsh > > (P.S. I didn't register the version we use in school as we are hoping to be > able to afford MS Office next year and didn't want to be part of any > feedback study, or receive any e-mails or spam.) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
