I have two 400-page manuscripts that were produced by a thirty-year-old word processor. They are in pages and I have scanned them to a USB. I use the public library computer which has LibreOffice. Can I convert this mess to a Word file so I can change the font and edit it, on a public computer. The alternative is to type the damn stuff in word by word, which has all the appeal of digging an outhouse with a spork.
I will greatly appreciate advice on this matter.
J. Freeman
It’s not clear to me if you have actual digital text files or page by page graphic files. Would you clarify please? If they are graphic, the first thing that you would need to do is OCR.
Go back to your library and save the file in doc or docx format or in both.
However, for reformatting a text document I would never again use WORD but WRITER with its very powerful Styles & Formatting function.
You can download and install LibO to your PC parallel to MS Office. I recommend the 4.3.5 version of LIbO but feel free to choose another one.