Re: Word to OpenOffice - what to do with styles?

Subject: Re: Word to OpenOffice - what to do with styles?
From: "D. Michael McIntyre" <michael -dot- mcintyre -at- rosegardenmusic -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:20:35 -0500

On Thursday 08 February 2007 2:50 pm, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
> I've got a bunch of Word documents that I want to bring over to OpenOffice
> 2.x.
>
> I've heard that it works more smoothly if your Word and OOo styles have the
> same names.

I haven't used Word since Word 95, and am much more familiar with OO.o. If
you know what the styles are called in Word, can't you just create matching
styles in OO.o, and balance the equation that way?

I don't know. I don't have any Word docs to play with. It seems plausible
though.
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