Word to OpenOffice - what to do with styles?

[Kevin Amery]

You could try opening Styles and Formatting, right click on the custom
style, choose "Select all X instances" and assign them to another
style (one that has a name analog in OOO). Rinse and repeat as
necessary.

HTH.


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Until next time...

Kevin Amery (in Uxbridge, Ontario)


On 2/8/07, Kevin McLauchlan <kmclauchlan at safenet-inc.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> 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.
>
> Naturally the Word styles don't have suitable names (the docs were produced
> by a writer
> who was chopped during a merger), so them're the ones I want to change.
>
> Anybody done this sort of migration and have suggestions (or even a reliable
> keyword to
> search in the Techwr-l archives)??
>
> When I go to Tools > Templates and Add-ins... in Word, and try to rename
> styles, it
> doesn't rename them.
> Instead, it keeps the old name and extends it with a comma, a space, and the
> new name.
> That's some sort of aliasing arrangement, which I'm sure is wonderful, but
> isn't what I'm hoping
> for.............  is it?
>
> If I open the doc in OOo, does it pounce on the aliases and smoothly
> substitute its
> equivalently named styles?
> I'd just go ahead and try, but when I tried to import the unmodified Word
> doc, OOo 2.1
> hung.  I thought it might have been just laboring with the awfulness of Word
> docs, so
> I let it crawl and went home. Next morning, it was still and unresponsive.
> Don't need
> that again.
>
> The Word doc is less than 300 pages.
>
> Suggestions? Thoughts? Pithy observations?
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin in Ottawa
>
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