I have had similar issues with going from MS Office to
OOo with documents that have complex tables like your
sample documents posted. Here a few comments I have
on this situation:

1. When I opened up your first document in 1.1.4rc1,
it did screw up like you indicated. However, when I
opened it up in a recent daily build of the 2.0 series,
it mostly came out fine. Some of the formating in the
document was tweaked but I think two minutes of manual
tuning would make it look great.

2. The calendar sample in the 1.1.X and 1.9.X builds are
completely screwed up. When I had these types of issues
I added my $.02 to an existing Bugzilla ticket on
the specific issue and a fix made it into the
daily builds within a few short weeks. You might
want to look into doing the same thing.  In the
mean time it looks like more than a few manual
edits are in order to make it work in OOo.

<march>

> I am blocked from using OO seriously because it seems
> unable to import existing MS Word documents.  You have
> probably already noticed that I am good at breaking
> software.  My goal is just to start using OO for my
> word processing, but that will include hacking on
> documents from the Dark Side.
> 
> Can anybody advise me what I might be doing wrong, in
> trying to bring .doc files into OO?  See the links
> below.  The PDFs show how they look in MS Word.
> This is a church newsletter, which is a simple
> publishing exercise.  I'm sure OO can handle stuff a
> *lot* more complex than this. ...
> 
> This first example has a title and image on the first
> page, but OO starts right out with the text.  Then OO
> puts the title at the top of the second page with a
> place for the image, but I'm unable to view the image.
> When I export this to PDF, no graphic goes along.
> I have tried various views, and the page preview.
>  <http://members.cox.net/vodhner/PhxNews2004-12.doc>
>  <http://members.cox.net/vodhner/PhxNews2004-12.pdf>
> 
> This one has calendar squares consisting of two table cells
> with an invisible line in between.  OO loses the top half
> of each cell:
>  <http://members.cox.net/vodhner/PhxCalendar2004-12.doc>
>  <http://members.cox.net/vodhner/PhxCalendar2004-12.pdf>
> 
> (OO always draws so many *lines* all over the page.
> Can I get rid of those?)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Vic
> 
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