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Re: docx files on a Mac

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PhillipJones <pjonescet@comcast.net> wrote:
> Kit wrote:
>> In article <lbm5ar$b71$2@dont-email.me>, Erilar
>> <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> If 'they' are paying you for the service, buy MS Word and include that
>> in your charges. If 'they' are not paying you, tell them to do a 'save
>> as' .doc file before sending it to you.
>> 
> Actually the the Formatting, Paragraph/line end (Linefeeds) Tabs, and so
> on are usually preserved in application like OpenOffice (and its
> variants), Mellel, Nisus Writer Pro.
> 
> Usually though they save in their proprietary format. Though the Open
> Office (variants), Mellel, Nisus can export to word format.
> 
> What's destroyed is any VBA, or Macros  Text Editors such as BBEdit,
> BBEdit Lite, TextWrangler, Do destroy any formatting except Indents and
> Line feed/Paragraph end

OO also moves footnotes from end to page bottom, which misplaces requested
edits in the side bar. This also raises the question of what happens to
text and footnotes if I try to send it back.  I think I'd have to make
changes in the original Pages document so I could Save As Word in a .pdf to
send it back. And they aren't happy with .pdf to begin with.  

If any other Mac user is ever urged to turn an oral presentation to a
scholarly audience into an academic paper for publication, find out in
advance whether you'll be allowed to submit it in a form you can access!

-- 
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist with iPad

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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

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