I have been with Windows for nearly 15+ years and I am very comfortable with that. Recently, on advise of a friend, I installed Kubuntu 9.10, (kernel 2.6-31-21-generic is the version which I select during loading) with Windows XP as dual boot. I tried to open and modify a word document ( MS office 2007 version) from the Linux OS. Following problems noticed. Can someone advise what could be done?
1. When I clicked on the icon of that document which is lying in that part of hard disk which operates with windows OS, it opened with open office org version3.1. But, I see that the various fonts which I had used in the document are appearing so different from the original view seen in MS office as also the different colors which I had used in various portions of the text were all shown in single color. Can open office be made to show at least the original colors of the alphabets as existing in the document in .docx format? Even if the fonts appear to be different while the document is open in open office (probably that font is not installed in my system with open office?), it is OK. Later, if I open the same document in MS office, they should look exactly as they were originally - which is not happening. Also, please see item no:4 below about what exactly is happening.
2. When I tried to save the document after some modifications, a query window came which had the following question. The document may contain formatting or content that cannot be saved in MS Word 2007 XML file format. Do you want to save the document in this format anyway? Use the latest ODF file format and be sure all formatting and content is saved correctly. Below this message were two buttons. First one said Keep Current Forma and the second one said Save in ODF format.
3. In the above, if I click Keep current format, a new pop up window comes up saying Error saving the document C: . . . . . . (entire path & document name). General input/output error while assessing media C: . . . . (entire path & document name). After this. there is a button titled OK. If I press OK here, this window goes off.
4. If I press Save in ODF format, the document saves at the location I select. When I go back into Windows and check, the original document which I had is there exactly as it was (without any modification) and the newly saved file is there with all the data as I corrected while in Linux but all the different fonts have changed to a single type, all font colors are black only and there is a slight disturbance in the formatting. Originally I had added some pictures in JPEG format as well as pdf format into the document at different places. If I had edited the document using MS office 2007, the location of those pictures would have remained exactly there in relation to the document although they would have moved slightly down or up on the page - probably even to next page. With the editing done in open office 3.1 it was looking as if everything is going OK. But when the document saved in that ODF format is opened in MS office, the writings have disappeared under the pictures which have remained exactly where they were on the page earlier. And . . . it was extremely difficult to edit that document to get it back to its original form with MS office 2007.
1. When I clicked on the icon of that document which is lying in that part of hard disk which operates with windows OS, it opened with open office org version3.1. But, I see that the various fonts which I had used in the document are appearing so different from the original view seen in MS office as also the different colors which I had used in various portions of the text were all shown in single color. Can open office be made to show at least the original colors of the alphabets as existing in the document in .docx format? Even if the fonts appear to be different while the document is open in open office (probably that font is not installed in my system with open office?), it is OK. Later, if I open the same document in MS office, they should look exactly as they were originally - which is not happening. Also, please see item no:4 below about what exactly is happening.
2. When I tried to save the document after some modifications, a query window came which had the following question. The document may contain formatting or content that cannot be saved in MS Word 2007 XML file format. Do you want to save the document in this format anyway? Use the latest ODF file format and be sure all formatting and content is saved correctly. Below this message were two buttons. First one said Keep Current Forma and the second one said Save in ODF format.
3. In the above, if I click Keep current format, a new pop up window comes up saying Error saving the document C: . . . . . . (entire path & document name). General input/output error while assessing media C: . . . . (entire path & document name). After this. there is a button titled OK. If I press OK here, this window goes off.
4. If I press Save in ODF format, the document saves at the location I select. When I go back into Windows and check, the original document which I had is there exactly as it was (without any modification) and the newly saved file is there with all the data as I corrected while in Linux but all the different fonts have changed to a single type, all font colors are black only and there is a slight disturbance in the formatting. Originally I had added some pictures in JPEG format as well as pdf format into the document at different places. If I had edited the document using MS office 2007, the location of those pictures would have remained exactly there in relation to the document although they would have moved slightly down or up on the page - probably even to next page. With the editing done in open office 3.1 it was looking as if everything is going OK. But when the document saved in that ODF format is opened in MS office, the writings have disappeared under the pictures which have remained exactly where they were on the page earlier. And . . . it was extremely difficult to edit that document to get it back to its original form with MS office 2007.
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