On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 21:37 -0600, home user wrote: > I did some serious experimenting this past winter. Writer could not > adequately handle the word-2010 documents. I even tried first > converting the word-2010 documents to word-2016. Writer could not > adequately handle those. Either way, I lose roughly half the text, > plus some of the formatting other than fonts. It seems the problem > is the "frames" in the word documents. There is a LibreOffice bug on > this. So I find my wisest option is to convert the files to > LibreOffice now, even if it's somewhat manual. And the conversion > must be done on the windows box. That makes sense, convert them before you're in a hurry to need them. You can run some office software in Linux (emulators or virtual environments), that could help with copying and pasting. Unless you'd prefer to run LibreOffice (for example) on Windows, and not have to bother with trying to get Windows software to run. There can be some benefit in remaking documents from scratch (removing peculiar fonts bigger, fonts smaller, fonts bigger, fonts smaller instructions that crept in between paragraphs, for example). When I've had to convert things before, I've often pasted slabs of text into a plain text editor, in the middle, then copy and pasted from there to the next application, to completely remove all formatting. Often the remove formatting options in word processors only does a partial job. A particular bugbear was trying to get them to not stylise a web address as a clickable link. Once it had done that, there was almost no undoing of it within the program. It sounds like you were using Word more as desktop publishing rather than typing. The fancier stuff isn't really the forté of word processors, other applications may be more suitable. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.62.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 5 16:57:59 UTC 2022 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
