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. > >George Fischer <gfischer at visi.com> writes: > > > >>Or use glabels. I've found it pretty easy, but then I've never done >>anything complicated, either. >> >>http://glabels.sourceforge.net/ >> >>"rick " <rick at eworld3.net> writes: >> >> >> >>>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 >>> >>> >>> >>>>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. >>>> >>>>_______________________________________________ >>>>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>> >>> >>-- >>George Fischer - gfischer at visi.com >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list