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| I created a .doc in Word 2007. I used a variety of fonts and sizes of fonts
| to create it. I saved it as .doc, .rtf and .docx. I then opened, or tried
| to, the resultant files in OpenOffice Writer. The .doc opened fine and
| displayed the document with the formatting as I had made it on Word. The
| .rtf file opened as expected and the .docx wouldn't open at all. I
| expected this to be the case.
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| I then saved the .doc as an .odt file in OOWriter and transferred it to
| the Windows machine and opened it via the Word2007 odt addon. After Word
| had converted it, it opened in Word and looked exactly the same as when
| I created it. I then saved it back to .doc (save as .odt is not working
| (at present?). I then transferred the saved .doc back to the Linux box
| and opened it in OOWriter and all the formatting had gone.
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| This is a stupid dirty trick (as far as I can tell). It basically means
| that Word (as it stands now) is deliberately stripping away the
| formatting in .odt files when it saves them to .doc (currently the
| only format that OOWriter can work with from Word). It's not that
| Word can't render the formatting from an odt file, just that it strips
| it away when saving back to .doc. Bear in mind that this part of the
| process does not require the odt addon.
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