2009/1/3 G T Smith
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Greg Freemyer wrote:
All,
I want to create multi-format document.
The first page or two would be cover letter. The later pages would be spreadsheets.
Can that done in OO?
I have done this with OO by OLE linking to spreadsheets.
However, there are a number of subtle gotchas (as in M$ but different ones exist in M$. I have a bugzilla still extant about a formatting issue in OO with such an import). The only environment which I have worked with that did this consistently with minimum grief was Lotus....
There are a number of ways of linking a spreadsheet to a document in OO some dynamic, some not, all have different pluses and minuses. I would suggest experiment to find the method that suits your requirements.
If you are talking about M$ ability to include an embedded spreadsheet OO does have this capability. I have run into problems with this arranging largish spreadsheet layouts, so only make use of it for fairly trivial calculations.
Can it be exported into a MS Office supported combined doc?
Never tried this. I think the major issue here is if the documents are linked dynamically then not only would the main document need to be converted, but any linked spreadsheets. I would suspect this would would work if the spreadsheet was fairly basic. I would be intrigued to find out how well this works.
The other problem was portability with dynamically linked documents, I seem to remember issues with paths of required dynamically linked documents causing problems on occasions.
I do not think M$ would support a combined document but to get around that, create the document in OO, convert to PDF and then send to the M4 folk. Portable Document Format to the rescue :) Regards Hylton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org