On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 09:40:02AM +1100, Roger wrote: > > <snip> > > There's no whining and trolling, and nobody hates Libroffice. > It's a discussion about facts which affect real life. When you have to > present at University/College, you urgently want your presentation to > have the same (=100% identical) look it had when you developed > it. Although Libreoffice and Microsoft Office are format-compatible, > layouts and formattings often don't look the same. > And this *is* a problem. A real one. > > </snip> > I have to agree. > For me, this has been an ongoing problem for years. OpenOffice and now > LibreOffice both have not formatted well when processing or producing word > docs. > Roger there ARE some settings in OOo (and I assume LO, not having looked for them) that restore some compatibilty with Word in areas of adding horizontal and vertical spacing in various places. My (limited) expereience with them is that they get you a lot closer to the pagination Word gives. Ah, in LO 4.0, check TOOLS | OPTIONS | LIBRE OFFICE WRITER | COMPATIBILITY where there are several options for controlling such things. > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------- "For him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy--to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen." ----------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 (niv) ----------------------------- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
