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Converting files from Open Office to Microsoft Office
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Assuming you're taking you documents to the library on a USB stick or disc of some sort, or even if its something like Dropbox. If that's the case why not download the portable version of libre office or open office (whatever you like best) and run it at the library? No need to install anything or convert at all just print.
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Paula_Smith said:For the future - why don't you set the defaults in Libre/Open Office to save as .doc, .xls etc. then you wont have this problem going foreward.
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I've heard of Google docs, no experience. That would be worth looking into. It's popular with some contacts I have online.I do like Libre Office and would download it for my own use. My need is to send these documents to a museum via volunteers using their own computers and maybe archives. So many use Word and as sods law goes, it's the final ones with formatting that they want.Does Libre Office allow documents to be saved as a Word file sucessfully?I'm thinking that no one likes Word Online by some posts and it being left out of the equasion.Can't practise until the library opens and not keen then to use a shared space in the current situation so I'm grateful for you helping me to sort this out. I do save the work to a USB to take to the library to print.And thanks also for info on what extensions to save to. I'm so out of date!
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Do they need to edit the documents or just view them. If viewing only then the best way would be to save to pdf format and send that.
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Libreoffice can save to Word formats (.doc or .docx) however there may be formatting issues when opened up in Word (and visa versa) if there is complicated formatting involved; that is things like title pages, etc. My experience is that the more involved the formatting the worse the formatting issues. If you're using just Headers, basic tables, bold, italics, underlines and bullet/numbered lists you should be OK.Failing that there is always saving it as a PDF which both Word and Libreoffice are able to import and save to.Regards the portable versions, you can install them to your USB and take them with you and start them up from the USB there shouldn't be any issues. I used to do that. In fact you can have a portable software ecosystem on your USB (provided you have enough space) and take all your software with you everywhere.1
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I've never had to save as PDF and need to find out more about them. That sounds a simpler possibility in this case if I can work it.I must admit that it might be reasonable to recreate these documents in some other way. But I shrink at the thought of so much dull work in my free time and would need a different thread.The formatting is historical documents and the sequence of information I used full stops to create dotted lines. Not stable and when I started it was to be small, just for me. Then the research was so fruitful it sort of got out of control
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twopenny said:I've heard of Google docs, no experience. That would be worth looking into. It's popular with some contacts I have online.I do like Libre Office and would download it for my own use. My need is to send these documents to a museum via volunteers using their own computers and maybe archives. So many use Word and as sods law goes, it's the final ones with formatting that they want.Does Libre Office allow documents to be saved as a Word file sucessfully?I'm thinking that no one likes Word Online by some posts and it being left out of the equasion.Can't practise until the library opens and not keen then to use a shared space in the current situation so I'm grateful for you helping me to sort this out. I do save the work to a USB to take to the library to print.And thanks also for info on what extensions to save to. I'm so out of date!Just out of interest, I have opened up a blank document in LibreOffice (Writer Document) and saved it in ODF format. There are other choices in terms of saving from a drop down menu including Word 2007, Word 2003, Docbook and Office Open. I then opened the document up in Word 2016 no problem. Tried opening in Word 2010 and there was an error message indicating a corrupt file. It did however then retrieve the file contents and the document appeared as a Word 2010 document. TBH, I would say you are reasonably safe in using LibreOffice and then passing on these files to your colleagues in ODF file format, although they might all be using different versions of Word.Its just such a pity that you aren't able to have a trial run inyour own space.0
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Too true inspectorperez. It's frustrating not to be able to experiment but there are bigger problems at the moment.I might try to save and send by email to one and ask if they can open it. I might get a response in reasonable time as we are at home a lot!It might not be so simple as I've been happily chuntering along not doing updates because everything was working well for me.But only one way to find out.
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Personally I write all my documents in a text editor in markdown ( a simple text formatting scheme ) and use pandoc to convert this into any other document I need an output for. It is fairly complicated to use for non-techies though, but once you wrap your head around it it's indispensable. I used to use Zim (a desktop wiki) for research and still do for other things as it's extremely versatile formany things especially research as you can link things together; Zotero as well for referencing and recording where you got information from.
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Thanks but I think that's beyond the time I want to spend. I enjoy the research more than the recording.Though adding references is something I'm slack about to my cost. If we get another lock down/snow in winter I will investigate those because they sound interesting.When computers/videos etc first came in I was really into it and the go to. Then realised that I used only a small part, I could spend hours on all the possibilities and stuck to the basics I need to persue my interests. Now I'm really pleased that there are people who are so knowledgeable.
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