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Perseus
December 1st, 2010, 10:48 PM
Ok. So, I originally wrote a paper in Microsoft Word 2007. My trial expired, so I converted to OpenOffice. I revised my paper in OpenOffice, and on OpenOffice, it fucks with endnotes and doesn't make them endnotish if you haven't noticed, so when I tried to reopen it in Word, guess what? My endnotes are fucked up and not endnotified. I shall show you to understand what I mean.
http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu176/DaTrooper00/Endnotes.jpg
http://i645.photobucket.com/albums/uu176/DaTrooper00/LeonardMosely.jpg

What do, VT?

Commander Thor
December 1st, 2010, 10:56 PM
If you keep backups, there may be a backup of it on the backup tab (Right click the document, properties, backup tab). Otherwise, there's nothing you can do (Besides re-doing the endnotes), the file was overwritten when you saved it in OpenOffice.

Perseus
December 1st, 2010, 10:57 PM
If you keep backups, there may be a backup of it on the backup tab (Right click the document, properties, backup tab). Otherwise, there's nothing you can do (Besides re-doing the endnotes), the file was overwritten when you saved it in OpenOffice.

I have the original file.

Commander Thor
December 1st, 2010, 11:00 PM
If you have the original file, then I don't see the issue.

Perseus
December 1st, 2010, 11:02 PM
If you have the original file, then I don't see the issue.

Well, I don't want to have to do more work than I have to. :P

This sucks, then. I have to transfer my revisions, which will take as much time as it did to freakin' revise. Gah. I hate Microsoft.

Commander Thor
December 1st, 2010, 11:04 PM
Well, I don't want to have to do more work than I have to. :P

This sucks, then. I have to transfer my revisions, which will take as much time as it did to freakin' revise. Gah. I hate Microsoft.

If it was OpenOffice that screwed with the endnotes, then wouldn't it be Oracle's fault? (So shouldn't you place your hate with Oracle?)

Perseus
December 2nd, 2010, 07:12 AM
If it was OpenOffice that screwed with the endnotes, then wouldn't it be Oracle's fault? (So shouldn't you place your hate with Oracle?)

It's Microsoft's fault since I ran out of trial uses for Word. :P