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		drucken on Feb 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft’s Biggest Miss It would be helpful if you could indicate what is missing or what you mean by correctly importing. If there are no detailed Word error messages or diagnostics, perhaps you could ask your lawyer to send you a PDF or paper version, so you can tell if there are any differences. I for one would be very attentive to the possibility of missing or incorrect information in legal documents...

SomeCallMeTim on Feb 17, 2012 [–]

It's not information so much as formatting that's always what gets messed up.

One document went back and forth between Word and LibreOffice and the numbering was always screwed up. Instead of:

1. 2. 3.

...it would come in:

.1 .2 .3

No actual missing information. Just screwed up formatting.

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