Open Office -> Word problems (was RE: Cyber cafe article)

[Brian Densmore]

Speaking of OO and Word...
I'm doing a document in OO put Everyone else who will use/
maintain it uses Word. I found this
really nice template for writing Technical documents.
It has chapter headings and footers and indexes and
pseudo-columned data. My problem is when I save it into
Word format. The tabbed data shifts on some lines and not
others, thus leaving the "columns" looking out of whack.
I'm using a courier 10 pitch font for those.
Secondly when I pull up the Word document the chapter
headings in the headers are all fubared! So this means
that I would basically have to hand edit every stupid
"column" that is out of sync and hardcode in the 
chapter names in the headers. Right now I am exporting
the final document into PDF for user viewing, since
none of the users will likely have OO. Any one seen this
behavior before and possibly know of a workaround?

Thanks,
"One of the other" Brians

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay  article
> 
> 
> http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/5284/
> 
> ... obstacles to getting people to switch 
> to Open Office.  I like what the kid did to his dad.  He 
> switched him right before a business trip so he had to use it.
>