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Problems with LibreOffice 3.6.0.4 rendering MS Office 2007 documents

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I currently have 10.04 installed with the latest version of LibreOffice.

Before, I used to work in Windows 7 and MS Office 2007. Most if not all of my documents is in Word and Excel format.

Now I am in LibreOffice, and know about the small conversion changes, when opening up a document created in Word in LibreOffice Writer.

The one problem I have is the rendering. My pages seems to get larger - LibreOffice Writer is creating auto spacing in-between lines where there weren't any spaces, making my document that is a 2-page long, to 4 pages.

Sometimes after re-editing in LibreOffice Writer, I can only get up to 3 pages, because there aren't any space left on the pages.

Everything fits to a 2-page document in Word, but can't fit to 2 pages in LibreOffice.

What can I do?

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answered 3 Years ago bblerest · Accepted Answer

Are the fonts in your source document compatible?

One of the first things I would try is to understand if you are using compatible fonts in your source document as Ubuntu (libre office) may be substituting these and causing the effect you are experiencing. MS Core fonts are not installed as standard in ubuntu and you have to do this manually

Go to the terminal (Ctrl-Al-T)and type in

sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts

This will give you the core fonts, but if there are other TrueType fonts that you want installed, it is as easy as copying the font files to the ~/.fonts/ directory.