CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

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#1

I do NOT appreciate being mis-quoted;
           I was responding to that Urmas who made the inane MSFT comments.

       If you were to read the whole bit, ... ... ...
           but I guess that goes against common sense :frowning:

       Out of the 2 sentences below, the first is part of my initial
response to the initial questioner;
            the second is part of the response by that Urmas.

#2

Sort of getting off topic here :slight_smile:

My understanding is that Herman has a template created for MS Word. He wants to use this template in LO and therefore needs to convert it into the format LO uses.

It was designed for Office 97 to 2000 and only works on certain computers with Office 2007/2010 as a plug-in.

Firstly can MS Word template be converted to an LO format? Does Herman have to start from scratch?

Cheers

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
Yes, to both the last 2 questions.

I'm fairly sure you can just double-click on a .dot to open it in
LibreOffice and then
File - "Save as Template"

However it is likely to be a good idea to start afresh and create a new
template using .ott from the start. MS formats tend to be riddled with
strange code and other junk and that has probably been added to over the
years as the template has been used in many different versions of MSO.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
I think we have all experienced that sort of thing.

This mailing list is meant for sharing ideas and building up answers. it's
not made to be precise about who came up with posts.

The thing was certainly said but it's difficult to know who said it except
for 2 facts;
1. we know what you are like and also what Urmas is like, at least on
these lists.
2. we can go back to the original posts or read them through Nabble

So how could anyone think you said such a thing?!? ;))
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: