MS office & Open office compatibility issue

[Stephen]

William Muriithi wrote:

> I wonder if there is someone out there how have found a work around on
> this problem. If you happen to be using open office and editing a
> document in collaboration with some who is using MS office, the paging
> get really messed up.
> 
> For example, you have a 3 pages document in OO, send it across to
> someone who  uses MS office, the document will have around 2 1/4
> pages.  This of course is not good, as the person across may think you
> are not serious.  I have looked at the fonts, line gap, anything that
> can lead to different page size with no luck.

Consider that a 'page' is defined by the printer setup of the local 
computer.

Legal size paper is a larger page, than letter size, for example.

Or do you mean that data in the document is being lost?

Stephen
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