MS office & Open office compatibility issue

[Tyler Aviss]

This has been a pain for me in general, especially with important
documents such as resume's etc. It's not just between OO and MS-Office
though, I've seen things get messed up between different versions of
MS-Office or different default page settings. Normally I do a few of
the following:
a) Export to PDF (which is standard in most institutions), works fine
so long as the person on the other end doesn't need to edit the
document
b) Manually start new pages (CTRL+Enter)
c) *Sacrifice a **chicken to the deities of standardization in hopes
that this issue will be resolved better in future versions
**or other small animal
* no chickens were harmed in the making of the post. Sacrifice of
anything other than time and IT equipment is not recommended

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:32 PM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi pals,
>
>  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.
>
>  If there something that I can do to avoid this issue? If not, what
>  should I change on receiving a document to have it paged properly
>  automatically. I would be happy with a toggle function - ie, receive a
>  document, do one or two things, and the document automatically get
>  back to the intended paging, then just before sending it out, reverse
>  the steps you used on receiving so that people using MS office don't
>  get pissed off.
>
>  Any help here would be highly appreaciated.
>
>  Regards,
>  William
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