Hello,
I copy edit documents for a couple journals. I’ve edited dozens of articles so far in LibreOffice without a hitch. I typically save the documents in .docx format so others can open them.
On Tuesday I opened and began editing an article, and saved my progress without a problem. I finished the document today and sent it to my editor. He writes back and says he can’t open the document, and could I save it in .doc format instead of .docx. I open the document to “save as” and the formatting is completely messed up. First off, what used to be a 25 page double-spaced article is now 147 pages; the title, author name, author info, and first section are ALL on different pages; when I try to delete or back space to bring a line of text back up to the same page, the line of text is brought up to the same line as the title – IOW, there seems to be no ability to put two lines of text on one page.
I edited two other articles on the same computer, saving them the same way during the same stretch of time, with no problems.
I have no idea what is going on. I’m not real computer literate, but I’d like to avoid repeating the 4 or 5 hours of editing this article took.
The document was originally in .doc format.
The only thing I can think of is that at one point I noticed that the “drop down box” that typically has “Default” listed had “Free Form B” instead – but this didn’t have an effect while editing.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
JD