[KLUG Members] OO.o leading vs Word leading

[Robert G. Brown]

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 01:55:33 -0400, Andrew Thompson wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 07:17, Eric Beversluis wrote:
>> When I open a Word doc in OO.o, it takes up more pages.
How many more pages?

>> It looks like
>> this is because OO puts more space (leading) between the lines.  Is
>> there anywhere in OO to adjust this so the pagination will be the same
>> as in Word?
>
>There is a setting, if you go through the menus to Format > Paragraph,
>and select the Indents & Spacing tab (leftmost; probably selected
>already). Line Spacing, near the bottom, offers a number of options,
>including "leading". I'm not sure if it's exactly what you want, though.
>You might try "fixed" instead, and set it to 1/n", where n is the number
>of lines per inch (or whatever unit of measure you're using).
>
>I was also going to suggest defining a custom named style, and maybe OOo
>would take the hint, but after rereading your request, I don't think
>that's really what you were asking for. Might be worth trying, though,
>if my main suggestion doesn't work.

I have had similar problems using a document among versions of Word, like
something created with Word 2000, and used in Word 97. Also, Andrews answer
implies something that people don't often think of... moving stylesheets
to OO is important, and it is best done before dong much else... that's
another good question for Eric: Were you using any particular styles in
your document?
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