MS office & Open office compatibility issue

[Howard Gibson]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:32:45 +0300
"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.

William,

   Open Office spaces lines further apart than Microsoft Word does.

   Instead of setting large, bold fonts, use the headers from the stylesheet, than attach a table of contents.  Tell the MS Word user to right click, then update.  Don't tell them how many pages you are sending.

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