Jul 23, 2014 - There used to be an Excel cell sheet available here. Was created and released as part of the Conspiracies Sourcebook kickstarter, but. Currently Running: Conspiracy X - The Truth is a Lie on Obsidian Portal.
I just purchased a document form a lawyer. It is a 4 page contract that I use for my business and it has my name embedded in it and so forth. They distribute it in MS Word format as a doc file and as a PDF.
This is a pretty simple document as far as word processors go. It has a fairly consistent font through out and just some weight changes here and there.
However, if I open it in Writer, right off th ebat there are two places in the beginning where there is a large '1' in sort of reverse highlighting. I could simply delete these, since I don't see any purpose they are serving. I am guessing they are an artifact from some sort of mail merge operation or something. They do not show up in word though. Secondly around the 2nd or third page there is a section where the font just randomly changes from what it already was through out into some courier type light weight font. Then after that section it changes back without issue.
The question is, do you think M$ is intentionally putting tweaks into their documents to force this to happen or are these just the result of sloppy process in making such a document by th eoriginal author that simply don't manifest in MS Word because it ignores such stuff as so much flotsum?
If possible I would like to clean up the Word document in 365 (which I have access to) such that it is readily opened by Writer. Ultimately, I will have to get the whole thing into Writer if I have to simply put them side by side and fix as I go. It just seems that one could write a document cleanly (enough) that it would be compatible between them... or am I delusional?