a question about libreoffice writer:

users
#1

hello every one.
my sister wrote one document in microsoft word.
i offered her libreoffice and encouraged her to use it.
when she opened the document with libreoffice writer, she told that
before of many words - is added to her document while openning with
libreoffice writer!
she did not add - to her documents and she did not want this unwanted
changes for it.
could you please help her to solve this problem?
thanks for your help and god bless you all.

#2

nasrin khaksar wrote:

> hello every one.
> my sister wrote one document in microsoft word.
> i offered her libreoffice and encouraged her to use it.
> when she opened the document with libreoffice writer, she told that
> before of many words - is added to her document while openning with
> libreoffice writer!
> she did not add - to her documents and she did not want this unwanted
> changes for it.
> could you please help her to solve this problem?
> thanks for your help and god bless you all.

I am afraid that will be difficult without you giving more details. Maybe it has to do with the language and/or script in which the document was written?

#3

I agree that more details are required. Could you perhaps copy and paste a few words into your e-mail message from both the original MS Word document and the resulting LO Writer document?

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Is it possible to copy a small part of the document as it would appear in
Word and how it appears in Writer so we can see the difference? If the
document is not confidential then uploading it to Nabble (using the "More"
button to get a drop-down menu and use the top item "Upload a file") might
help. Nabble injects an html link directly into the message window so that
people can choose to click on that link if they want to see the file. Other
file-sharing Cloud storage are also good but using them means you have to
copy&paste the link to the file into the message yourself.

Word is a bit weird with it's formatting and hidden coding. It doesn't help
that each version of MS Office uses a slightly different file-format, which
makes it difficult for MS Office users to share files sometimes.

I usually try to open Word files in the same version of Word (if i can) and
then use copy & "paste as text" or copy&paste into a text-editor and then
from there copy&paste again into Writer. Using keyboard short-cuts that is;