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This articles collects our notes which shows some of the differences between OpenOffice.org 1.x.x Writer and Microsoft Word. Knowing about differences may assist if a person is looking to migrate to OpenOffice.org.

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I have received a word processing document which is an rtf formatted document from a travel agent. I can't open it in OpenOffice.org. What should I do?

22/08/05

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When I open and MS Word document in OpenOffice.org the text does not flow correctly around the images.

22/08/05

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When I open an MS Word document in OpenOffice.org Writer the page footer numbers start at 2 instead of 1.

22/08/05

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When I open a Word document with Writer the file name does not appear in the title bar. The first part of the text appears. I would like the file name to appear.

22/08/05

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How do I get the Writer file name to appear in the title bar instead of the document title.

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I would like to apply my own defined style to sections of text almost like the format painter available in word but predefined. How do I do this?

22/08/05

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I've received an email containing an attachment which is a Word document. The document contains pictures, but in OpenOffice.org these show up as a white square with small image in the top left hand corner with a square, circle and triangle. What is happening?

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We have converted our real estate brochure from Word to OpenOffice.org writer but the graphics have lines through them. What do we need to do?

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