[KLUG Members] OO.o's handling of Word documents

[Eric Beversluis]

Some information re ability of OpenOffice to handle Word documents:

I recently received a Word document from my wife to print. As it came
first to Evolution I tried printing in in OpenOffice.org 2.0. Then to
check I forwarded it to Windows and opened and printed it in Word. When
I opened it in Word I discovered that there was a full page flow chart
(looked like it was created in Word, not imported from something like
Visio) that simply disappeared from the document when opened in
OpenOffice, with no indication even that something was missing.

When sent to Linux and opened in Writer (OO.o2.0),
--the solid square bullets became hollow, vertical rectangular bullets
--line spacing was increased (single spacing) from ca 3/16" to ca 1/4",
resulting in 7 1/9 pp becoming a bit over 8 1/2 pages.
--the quality of the printed page in Linux was significantly worse (same
laser printer). 
--When the document was saved (in Windows) as rtf and sent back to Linux
and OO.o, the flowchart still disappeared

EB