[lug] Problem with MS Word tables in OpenOffice

Evelyn Mitchell efm at tummy.com
Thu Sep 16 18:54:59 MDT 2004


* On 2004-09-16 18:45 Elyse M. Grasso <emgrasso at data-raptors.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to get OpenOffice to handle tables in MS Word docs sensibly at 
> page boundaries. I've got a 9 page Word document that only shows as 7 pages 
> in OpenOffice: the table on page 5 just sort of runs off into the twilight 
> zone instead of getting split at the page boundary and continuing onto a new 
> page.

What happens if you split the table on page 5 prior to where it runs off
into the twilight?

> 
> Any suggestions for either a fix or workaround or useful google terms would be 
> enormously helpful.
> 
> I'm using OpenOffice  1.1.1 with the KRUD FC2 August dist.
> 
> Thanks
> -- 
> Elyse Grasso
> 
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