Re: Word to OpenOffice - what to do with styles?

["D. Michael McIntyre" <michael -dot- mcintyre -at- rosegardenmusic -dot- com>]

On Thursday 08 February 2007 2:50 pm, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
> I've got a bunch of Word documents that I want to bring over to OpenOffice
> 2.x.
>
> I've heard that it works more smoothly if your Word and OOo styles have the
> same names.

I haven't used Word since Word 95, and am much more familiar with OO.o.  If 
you know what the styles are called in Word, can't you just create matching 
styles in OO.o, and balance the equation that way?

I don't know.  I don't have any Word docs to play with.  It seems plausible 
though.
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