Ubuntu's OpenOffice formatting changed from XP's OO formatting

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Apr 8 01:31:45 UTC 2008


On 04/07/2008 05:57 PM, Joseph wrote:
> 
> I used to use OO with Windows XP and formatted the odt documents as needed.
> 
> Then when I changed to Ubuntu, and bring those OO in XP documents, the 
> formatting has been changed.  Changes are such as:
>       Areas where font size is altered
>       Page formatting (margins)
>       Text style changed from Comic Sans to New Times Roman
>             How can I get some more interesting fonts???  Everything 
> looks the same
> 
> 
> I have approximately (probably more than) 1000 odt documents made with 
> OO in XP.  It is so time consuming to make all these changes.  Seems 
> that they were made with OO in Xp the settings should be the same with 
> OO in Ubuntu....
> 
> My question:   Is there a way I can set OO or Ubuntu, so that documents 
> will maintain all the previous settings in which they were originally 
> saved?
> 
> Thanks in advance for all helpful replies
> 
> Joseph
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Install the fonts that you used in OOo XP.






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