[tdf-discuss] Re: LO and WORD styles

marcpare4 wrote
> Le 01/03/14 08:25 PM, edo1 a écrit :
> > This question has been touched upon for previous versions of LO but I'd
> > like
> > to double check for ver. 4.2.0.4 I'm using. I'm planning to do a book
> > layout, using styles, collaboratively with a distant colleague. The
> > problem
> > is she knows little about styles, works in MS Word 2013, and usually
> > saves
> > files in.docx format. (I'm urging .doc on her.) I myself am unfamiliar
> > with
> > MS Word styles and don't know how compatible they are with LO styles. So,
> > will there be a problem of styles colliding, and what's the best way we
> > can
> > avoid that? Thanks, edo1
>
> This seems like such a large undertaking to worry about such 
> compatibility. I wonder if it would not be better to suggest to her to 
> try to install LibreOffice and you could then just send her the start of 
> your book with styles included and see if she could manage with 
> LibreOffice? At least one of you would be familiar enough of styles to 
> make it work without having to struggle to make the styles works with 
> MSOffice.

You're quite right, the best solution would be to use the same program.
Still, I'm curious to know if the compatibility is good enough to allow us
to work in both LO and WORD. From your reply I gather that it's not.



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