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Open Office Writer Problems

  • 22-09-2010 5:31pm
    #1
    yellowellie
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭


    Open Office users, I need your help.

    My work computer doesn't have MS Office so I've got OpenOffice. When typing up simple documents in OpenOffice Writer I'm having terrible problems with bulleting.

    I type the doc, save it as a .rtf (as recommended by our I.T. guy) as I go along and close the document when I'm finished. Every time I open the doc again the bulleting is all over the place - bullet points gone and even some words missing and cursor font size changed.

    I am tearing my hear out with this as I'm wasting so much time re-doing work that I've done several times. I'm not opening older versions or anything because I've 'replaced the existing file' with exactly how I want things laid out.

    Any suggestions please?


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  • #2
    bhickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,340 ✭✭✭bhickey


    yellowellie wrote: »
    I type the doc, save it as a .rtf (as recommended by our I.T. guy) as I go along and close the document when I'm finished. Every time I open the doc again the bulleting is all over the place - bullet points gone and even some words missing and cursor font size changed

    Go now to your IT guy and give him a firm kick! Saving as RTF is exactly what's going to lose you a lot of formatting.

    If others (particularly those with MS Office) will ever need to read or work on the documents then set your default file format in OpenOffice to 'Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP' as follows :

    Tools > Options > Load/Save > General

    While you're at it you want change the default spreadsheets (change to 'Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP') & presentations (change to 'Microsoft Powerpoint 97/2000/XP') formats too.


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