If you are a user of OpenOffice on the Mac, like I am, you have probably noticed that in converting documents back and forth between .odt and .doc formats messes with your bullets. Instead of little dots, you get clapper boards, which are cute but not useful for a professional documents.
Today, buried deep in a page discussing this bug, I found a very useful manual fix that has worked for me:
“I’ve had success using the Font Replacement Table, located in the OpenOffice.org ->Fonts. Enable “Apply replacement table”, select “Symbol” in the lefthand FONT drop down, select “OpenSymbol” in the righthand “Replace with” dropdown. Press the checkmark to the right to add the substitution to the table. Make sure you check the Always box.
Once this is set up, opening and saving in MSWord 97/XP format preserves the bullet characters in both directions.”
Hope this helps you.
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Thanks! I find OpenOffice .doc support to be bearable at best. But this certainly helps a lot.
Comment by Troels Axelsen — January 17, 2010 #
Thanks a lot! It works
Comment by benjamin — April 23, 2010 #
Brilliant, thank you so much
Comment by Gervais — May 11, 2010 #
Thanks for that – definitely helped me out. I’ve added a link to it on my computer tips page at http://www.squidoo.com/dannyscomputertips. I think it is the first Mac tip I’ve put on there so far!
Comment by Danny Staple — June 19, 2010 #