On ಬು, 2008-01-23 at 14:12 -0800, 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,
This behavior has been rather inconsistant and enabling change tracking makes it worse. > (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), if formulas are entered using Math tool ...... M$ Office cannot display them. > (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." Reference to Figure captions seem to work. However I have had issues with references to Chapters etc. > > I don't need to share documents with people using Word, so these issues > aren't > really problems for me, If you are not sharing documents, I would STRONGLY suggest you use .odt as the documents behavior is consistant and I have had no stability issues with large documents. > but I can imagine they'd be deal-killers for other > people. Should I be surprised to see so many things that don't translate > correctly from Writer to Word? No ..... it is common and they are deal killers. Have you tried to check the compatibility of M$ Office on Windows and MAC. It is no better. > > Thanks, > > Scott Scott, thanks for the C++ books. I enjoyed reading them. -G > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
