On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 22:03 +1100, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > On 20/03/2006, at 1:01 PM, Jon Silk wrote: > > > Thanks again for the fast reply! > > > > More questions embedded in your response below... > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Sun 3/19/2006 4:43 PM > > To: [email protected]; Jon Silk > > Subject: Re: [users] New Questions - Character Shifting, Delay/Slow > > Processing Speed, & Mac Intel Compatibility > > > >> > >> Lets see how we go with answers for your questions: > >>> 1) When I open MS Word documents in my Open Office, the characters > >>> and spacing shift; my resume, for example, went from being one page > >>> in MS Word, to over 1.5 pages in Open Office. What gives? > >> > >> The most common cause I have seen for this is that you are using a > >> font that is not available on the platform and it guesstimates what > >> font to use. This causes some differences in the font used and > >> changes to the size. > > > > I'm using Times New Roman font size 11, which both applications > > (Word and Open Office) have-- I don't understand why the spacing is > > shifting. > > The other thing that may be different is that MS Word does not use > page styles. This may be getting translated slightly differently when > you import to OOo. Are the margins and page sizes etc the same? Where > is the extra spacing actually coming from here?
I've noticed and confirmed that OOo (at least the 1.x version), when opening .doc files, as default puts more space between lines than does Word. I've had to go in to page setup and manually set the line spacing to something like 0.17" to get pagination to come out consistently with Word pagination. (Format, Paragraph, Line Spacing, Fixed) EB > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
