The advice in the article is excellent for ANY document
formatting, not just to keep documents compatible between
"Open and not-so-open Office suites."
It can be SO hard to get people to not use a word processing
program as if it were a typewriter (which just gets them in
a bunch of trouble down the road). Even the "younger
generation" that never used a typewriter seem to want
to format documents the hard way.
I'd add two tips to those already in the tinyurl.com
article. Actually they're more like basic rules to follow
whenever creating a document:
1. Content first, then formatting. Write out what you want
to say first, then worry about how it looks. "Form
follows (in this case chronologically, not just
philosophically) function."
2. If you ever have to press the "Enter,"
"Tab" or "Space" key more than twice
in a row, that's a sure sign you're doing something wrong
and need to find a better way to do it.
John Heizer
Nonprofit Technology Consultant
john zamtech.info
-----original message-----
>>It seem that a lot of questions about migrating to
OpenOffice.org revolve around compatibility with the
Microsoft products. Here's an interesting article on how to
format your documents so that they convert more easily
between the Open and not-so-open Office suites:
*Smart formatting for better compatibility between
OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office"* http://tinyurl.com/er4ja
>>
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