No I just was moving it to Linux and testing in OO.

George Fischer wrote:

>Okay, this was a stupid suggestion, unless you aren't purposefully using
>Word and OO to maintain some sort of Windows compatability.
>
>Sorry.
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>George Fischer <gfischer at visi.com> writes:
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>>Or use glabels.  I've found it pretty easy, but then I've never done
>>anything complicated, either.
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>>http://glabels.sourceforge.net/
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>>"rick " <rick at eworld3.net> writes:
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>>>You know that you can make business cards inside OpenOffice.org. I bought blank cards on an 8.5x11 sheet at OfficeMax and printed on my Laser printer. Let me know (off list) if you want to know more about how that works.
>>>
>>>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>>>From: Samuel MacDonald <smac at visi.com>
>>>Reply-To: TCLUG Mailing List <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
>>>Date:  Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:29:27 -0600
>>>
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>>>>I created a document using Word 97 (I'm not buying another M$ license)
>>>>The document is a table with business card size cells (for business cards)
>>>>
>>>>It has a graphic in each of the cells
>>>>It has 2 bullet points
>>>>It has 2 different fonts, some bold.
>>>>No color.
>>>>
>>>>Standard information for a business card.
>>>>
>>>>As a word doc it's 671k, for one page, it has a graphic on each card.
>>>>
>>>>I opened it in OO Writer and saved it as an OO Writer "sxw" file, it's 
>>>>6,724k !
>>>>OUCH that's a bit large for one page, over 6.5 megabytes!
>>>>
>>>>Anyone know why this happened or is this normal behavior form Open 
>>>>Office. Opening this document from a LAN drive is very painful.  It 
>>>>prints great but the size is larger then expected.
>>>>
>>>>Sam.
>>>>
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>>George Fischer - gfischer at visi.com
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