On 05/29/11 at 06:15pm, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > On Monday, 30 May 2011 02:32:32 +0530, > Mihira Fernando wrote: > > >> Currently I'm making the Final University Project and I've found that > >> the templates provided by teachers for the reports are in Microsoft Word > >> format. It is sad to note that encourages the use of a closed-format for > >> something that should mean a contribution to humanity... [snip] > >> > >> Are there some tools that can be recommend me to do this kind of > >> conversion (DOC -> ODT) with or without intermediate steps? > > > have you tried opening it with google docs and saving as odt ? > > Yes, we tried to upload the Word document to Google Docs, but the styles > are displayed broken too. >
If the styles are not translating, why not create a new document with the style information and copy/paste the content? If that won't work, and formatting is crucial, I recommend you export to a different format from Word itself. After all, it is a proprietary format and all other programs which read it are based on reverse-engineering it. Go to the source, and save in something more appropriate. Perhaps use a print-to-PDF option. But I think my first suggestion is your best bet overall. Then you can author in open formats from the start. -- Liam
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