Hi, Scott Meyers wrote:
I recently started working with OOo, and I just saved my Writer document in Word 97/2000/XP format. I then opened the document in Word XP, and I was surprised to see that (1) frame content (e.g., listings and diagrams) seemed to be missing entirely, (2) special symbols were missing from the text (e.g., the mathematical "there exists" symbol, which looks like a backwards capital E and which is present in Windows' Symbol font), (3) some tab-based text was placed at the wrong locations on the page (probably at the wrong tab stop), (4) superscripted text was not superscripted, and (5) cross references to frames were replaced with "Error! Reference source not found."
there are some possible areas of problems when using files in other applications, on other platforms, on other computers. Writer or Word are not designed as cross-platform desktop publishing systems where you would not expect such problems. (1) if your frame content is an OLE object in Writer, it will not show up in Word, except when you tell Writer to convert the OLE object into the respective object of the Microsoft world. Have a look at menu Tools - Options - Load/Save - Microsoft Office. (2) the special symbols use a special font. Ensure that font is installed on the Windows machine where you want to load the file, and that Word can use that font. (3) default tabs are calculated based on the default font and printer driver. On another system there might be some very small differences which can add up to some visible tab position changes. Try to use defined tab positions instead of the default tabs. (4) superscripted text - depends on how you superscripted it. A single superscripted 2 would be shown as a special character on one system, while it would be placed as a scaled normal character on another system where the font doesn't know that special character. (5) in Writer you can set references to captions of frames, not to frames directly. That should transfer well to Word, afaik.
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