Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.sys.mac.apps > #20638

Re: docx files on a Mac

Show all headers | View raw

gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2014-01-21 17:38:26 +0000, gtr said:
> 
>> On 2014-01-21 15:56:11 +0000, Erilar said:
>>>> How do you open one of these on a Mac without destroying the formatting?  I
>>> can open it with Open Office, Bean, and if I remember correctly, even
>>> Pages, but the format is destroyed.
>>>>> The original is a paper with endnotes I'm supposed to submit as Word. I can
>>> save as Word, though I have to mail it as a .pdf, but they want me to make
>>> a couple corrections in the docx they sent me and the side note stuff ends
>>> up in places where it haa no discernible connection to the text. Cryptic
>>> notes don't help.
>>>>> Even if I could make sense of it and make the corrections, the endnotes
>>> would still be turned into page notes, which is the wrong format.
>>> Give them your corrections in a secondary file:
>>> 	Replacement text for 3rd/4th paragraphs, ...
>> 	Change all occurences of X to Y...
>> 	Update the residents of building X to read ...
>>> Etc.
> 
> Oops.  I meant to add that you can give them the entire text of the
> thing, and have them paste it in, retaining the foot notes and whatever
> the hell formatting they like.

Thanks for the suggestions, but so far I'm being told that doesn't work. I
DID  send the 3 minor corrections I COULD find, even though I can't make
head nor tail of one they sent, but that's apparently not good enough.   It
was a LOT of work for something I was told was going to be published that
now apparently isn't. Never again.  I'm going back to researching just for
fun.
-- 
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

Back to comp.sys.mac.apps | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-21 15:56 +0000
  Re: docx files on a Mac Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-01-21 09:28 -0700
    Re: docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-22 21:04 +0000
      Re: docx files on a Mac ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2014-01-22 22:38 +0100
      Re: docx files on a Mac Suze <replytome@thenewsgroup.com> - 2014-01-26 19:02 -0600
        Re: docx files on a Mac erilar <drache@chibardun.net.invalid> - 2014-01-26 19:29 -0600
        Re: docx files on a Mac John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2014-01-27 07:57 -0800
          Re: docx files on a Mac android <here@there.was> - 2014-02-05 19:53 +0100
      Re: docx files on a Mac android <here@there.was> - 2014-02-05 19:53 +0100
  Re: docx files on a Mac Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-01-21 17:05 +0000
  Re: docx files on a Mac gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-21 09:38 -0800
    Re: docx files on a Mac gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2014-01-21 09:39 -0800
      Re: docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-22 21:04 +0000
  Re: docx files on a Mac Kit <kityzyme@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-22 11:59 +0000
    Re: docx files on a Mac PhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net> - 2014-01-22 17:44 -0500
      Re: docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-23 14:50 +0000
        Re: docx files on a Mac Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-01-23 17:16 +0000
          Re: docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-24 14:01 +0000
            Re: docx files on a Mac Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2014-01-24 16:49 +0000
    Re: docx files on a Mac Richard H <Richard.H@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-05 17:33 +0000
  Re: docx files on a Mac John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2014-01-24 04:05 +0000
    Re: docx files on a Mac Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-01-24 14:31 +0000

csiph-web