A well formatting document is consistent, correct (in terms of meeting any stated requirements), and easy to read. Basically, the mechanics of how the words appear on the page.
Tips and resources for how to use Microsoft Word styles and templates to simplify formatting.ĭocument formatting refers to the way a document is laid out on the page-the way it looks and is visually organized-and it addresses things like font selection, font size and presentation (like bold or italics), spacing, margins, alignment, columns, indentation, and lists.Overview of the general standards for document formatting and the importance of using consistent, clear formatting.Of course MS will never do so even if somebody would donate the entire code to them. Any application can implement this standard without too much technical issues and with no legal issues at all. OOo's ODF file format (odt, ods, odp etc) is designed to be as interoperable as possible. It is part of their business model to be like that. PDF guaratees that the same document looks the same on any system.įor complex documents there is no alternative to Microsoft software. Where the docx format includes some new formatting attributes without equivalent in the old doc encoding, you could not see that attribute in OOo anyway.Īpart from this the visual appearance may differ between versions of the same office suite. The old doc format supports almost the same formatting attributes as the new docx does. MS Office will support the doc format for the years to come. docx: some people send to me papers in MSWord 2007 and sometimes I have also to evaluate the visual impact, which is a problem when you are not sure about the formatting. My problem is that simply I cannot avoid the. Since I don't want and can't anyway install MS Office 2010, I was wondering when I will have the possibility to open a MSOffice 2010 file with Openoffice. I work as a researcher in Nanotechnology in a Swiss university and my pc has not Office 2010 installed: I don't complain, I use Openoffice if I can, but my problem is that I find more and more files in MSOffice 2010 format. I had 99% compatibility for word excel and powerpoint files, till 2007. doc 2007 files and I didn't have installed (nor want to) Office 2007.
Years ago Openoffice saved my ass with many. I am a happy user of Openoffice since a long time ago, and I am very grateful for this wonderful software. My name is Andrea, I'm an italian chemist (a bearded male, in case you're wondering, I know, but in Italy Andrea it's only a male name, there's a huge M under Sex in my Identity Card:-) and I've Openoffice 3.2 on a Windows XP Professional operating system. I apologize if I'm not in the right place or if someone already posted the answer (I could not find one).
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