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From: "Mary Compton" on 19 Dec 2009 15:48

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From: "William W. Austin" <waustin(a)speakeasy.net>
To: "Openoffice" <discuss(a)openoffice.org>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 9:49 PM
Subject: [discuss] Is this a bug or ... (long)


>
> After years and years of using OpenOffice (and before that StarOffice),
> I have run into a repeatable problem. But I don't know whether it is
> the result of very specific formats on which my office "standardized"
> about 8 or 9 years ago, or whether it is a real bug worth reporting.
>
> Here's the scenario:
>
> All dox have to be submitted in M$ Word (office 2000) format (".doc")
> But since I'm bucking a trend - I am on Linux, not Windoze, and the
> prospect of running MSWord under CXOffice (it works, but is very, very
> sloooooooooow), doesn't exactly thrill me - I use Openoffice instead.
>
> Well and good: I can create the documents and turn them in - and they
> work perfectly and everyone (but me) is happy.
>
> However, when I get a doc which has been edited by MSword, then the
> heading numbering INVARIABLY loses its separating spaces. That is, say
> you have a doc with headings which look like:
>
> 1. Level 1 heading
> 2. Level 1 heading
> 2.1. Level 2 heading
> 2.1.1. Level 3 heading
> (etc.)
>
> When I pull the doc up in OOWriter, the spacing between the heading
> numbers and the heading text is gone, and I see:
>
> 1.Level 1 heading
> 2.Level 1 heading
> 2.1.Level 2 heading
> 2.1.1.Level 3 heading
> (etc.)
>
> If I go to the stylist and check, the spacing to text and
> Minimum space numbering<->text are invariably set to 0 (and *outline*
> numbering shows up in the stylist along with numbered and bulleted
> lists on the numbering style tab).
>
> [But on the docs originally created in OOo-writer this has not always
> been the case for some reason...???].
>
> I'm wondering whether there is something I'm doing wrong or whether
> instead this might be the result of some marginally-incorrect format
> which "usually happens to work" and is in common use at my office. (and
> I can't submit a sample - it's all burn-before-reading stuff that
> *cannot* leave the office... period).
>
> Looking it up in bugzilla if this *is* a known issue, then I'm just
> looking it up incorrectly (sorry).
>
> Any opinions or suggestions on this one would be greatly appreciated.
>
> - Thanks
>
> --
> william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
> "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
>
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From: "Mary Compton" on 19 Dec 2009 15:54

----- Original Message -----
From: "William W. Austin" <waustin(a)speakeasy.net>
To: "Openoffice" <discuss(a)openoffice.org>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 9:49 PM
Subject: [discuss] Is this a bug or ... (long)


>
> After years and years of using OpenOffice (and before that StarOffice),
> I have run into a repeatable problem. But I don't know whether it is
> the result of very specific formats on which my office "standardized"
> about 8 or 9 years ago, or whether it is a real bug worth reporting.
>
> Here's the scenario:
>
> All dox have to be submitted in M$ Word (office 2000) format (".doc")
> But since I'm bucking a trend - I am on Linux, not Windoze, and the
> prospect of running MSWord under CXOffice (it works, but is very, very
> sloooooooooow), doesn't exactly thrill me - I use Openoffice instead.
>
> Well and good: I can create the documents and turn them in - and they
> work perfectly and everyone (but me) is happy.
>
> However, when I get a doc which has been edited by MSword, then the
> heading numbering INVARIABLY loses its separating spaces. That is, say
> you have a doc with headings which look like:
>
> 1. Level 1 heading
> 2. Level 1 heading
> 2.1. Level 2 heading
> 2.1.1. Level 3 heading
> (etc.)
>
> When I pull the doc up in OOWriter, the spacing between the heading
> numbers and the heading text is gone, and I see:
>
> 1.Level 1 heading
> 2.Level 1 heading
> 2.1.Level 2 heading
> 2.1.1.Level 3 heading
> (etc.)
>
> If I go to the stylist and check, the spacing to text and
> Minimum space numbering<->text are invariably set to 0 (and *outline*
> numbering shows up in the stylist along with numbered and bulleted
> lists on the numbering style tab).
>
> [But on the docs originally created in OOo-writer this has not always
> been the case for some reason...???].
>
> I'm wondering whether there is something I'm doing wrong or whether
> instead this might be the result of some marginally-incorrect format
> which "usually happens to work" and is in common use at my office. (and
> I can't submit a sample - it's all burn-before-reading stuff that
> *cannot* leave the office... period).
>
> Looking it up in bugzilla if this *is* a known issue, then I'm just
> looking it up incorrectly (sorry).
>
> Any opinions or suggestions on this one would be greatly appreciated.
>
> - Thanks
>
> --
> william w. austin waustin(a)speakeasy.net
> "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
>
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