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lknoll
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 Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 8:55 am Post subject: [SOLVED] Document is being re-formatted on save |
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I am using open office version 3.3.0 on windows 7 professional.
The problem I am having is I have a document with 180 pages, when I perform a save as on this document, then close it, then re-open the newly saved document, it now has 181 pages. It appears that OpenOffice is re-formatting the document. The document I am working with does contain tables, I think this may have something to do with it. Is there a setting that would prevent this from happening?
Thanks,
Lee.
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lknoll
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| I compared the styles of the two documents and the original sets a rel-column-width and the newly saved document has a rel-column-width and also a column-width property set. |
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Are you saving in .doc format? If so, try saving as .odt.
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jrkrideau
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:46 am Post subject: Re: Document is being re-formatted on save |
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| lknoll wrote: | I am using open office version 3.3.0 on windows 7 professional.
The problem I am having is I have a document with 180 pages, when I perform a save as on this document, then close it, then re-open the newly saved document, it now has 181 pages. It appears that OpenOffice is re-formatting the document. The document I am working with does contain tables, I think this may have something to do with it. Is there a setting that would prevent this from happening?
Thanks,
Lee. |
What OS and version of OOo/LO?
Are you saving as as OOo file
Was the file created as an odt file?
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lknoll
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OO 3.3.0
Windows 7
Its an odt file being saved as an odt file.
The original odt document is the product of an odt template being inserted into another odt document by extracting the content xml using coldfusion. This original document is never saved using OO, but rather programmatically written to a location.
When this document is saved using OO, the problem occurs. After investigating, I believe/hoping it is a measurement settings issue. I think the template may be set to metric, while my profile is set to inches. |
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lknoll
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| Posted: Thu May 10, 2012 6:34 am Post subject: Solved |
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Issue solved. When I open the original document the table has a cell that SHOULD spill over into a second page. I have the settings set to allow this, but this does not always occur.
When the document is first opened, I have a macro that adds reference marks to every line running, so in here I check to see if the cell should be spilling over into a second page, if so, I set the KeepTogether attribute to True and then back to false. This in a sense jump starts the value and the cell spans 2 pages like I would expect. |
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