Paste from OpenOffice
Written by Denise Witter Thursday, 14 January 2010 14:53
This post is an experiment of sorts. I'm not writing it in Joomla. I'm writing it in Open Office. With formatting.
I wanted to test out the "copy and paste" ability of OpenOffice to Joomla and see how well the post makes the transition. I've read plenty of "Don't Do It! Don't Paste From Word to Joomla!!" horror stories, but I was curious as to whether pasting from OpenOffice would be as bad as pasting from MS Word.
OpenOffice is so awesome and works perfectly for me in many of my word processing needs. In the past, I had always wanted to try out OpenOffice, but MS Word was working well enough for me I just didn't get around to it until I bought a new computer last year. A Windows Vista 64-bit computer that wouldn't run my MS Office 2003 Suite.
Such a shame.
I could've just upgraded to MS Office 2007, but really, I was pretty disappointed. And it was just the impetus I needed to give OpenOffice a real chance.
I haven't looked back since.
I just published the post and viewed it. Even with the pasting, the Verdana font, the italics, and other little formatting bits were preserved. The only issue I had with it, was it added extra space between the paragraphs that I had to go back and remove.
All-in-all though, not too bad.
