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Hi,
I noticed that when I open the same file in Libre Office on Win 10 and LL 4 there are small differences in the formating. Does anyone know what's the cause of this and if there is a way to prefent it?
Bellow are screenshots from the same ODT file opened in Win 10 and LL 4.

My experience tells me that it's a Libre Office problem...I always have issues working with LO...so I change to Softmaker Free Office.

Regards

Paulo

I too always have problems with LO when collaborating with colleagues who are using Word.  Have started to use WPS office for those tasks.  Seems to be less problems.  https://www.wps.com/linux/

The posts in the WPS community forum do not inspire confidence in the product, it is full of spam messages. I could not find clear install instructions, or a 64bit version for intel cpu. Could you please give more info on how you downloaded and installed WPS-Office?
Thanks newtusmaximus for the link.

My partner's cousin was a "developer" for MS working on campus for many years. I can assure you that the problem is with the Windows UI. It is simply such an extravagantly sloppy and hopelessly overwritten over coded patchwork that it's performance is unpredictable even in house at Redmond on their own developers' machines. Without OEM agreements the MS UI would be around 75% dysfunctional. The numbers for mainline Linux distributions would of course be completely inverted. All I can recommend is using Windows fonts on both machines as defaults, preferably the oldest still functioning T/T fonts developed at HP a hundred years ago, and match all margins, kerning, and headers and footers and set as defaults. NOT a LibreOffice flaw. The other alternative is PDF or raw unformatted (skip line for paragraphs) text like we did a hundred years ago. In human years based on retained toxin levels MS Windows is at least 1,000 tears old. It's death is imminent and I'm trying very hard to outlive it.

TC 

[member=5916]trinidad[/member] , thanks, I think I will stay with Libre Office, its in the repo, is kept updated and is well tried and tested.

I am slowly converting my colleagues to use Libre Office on their Windows machines and standardardise to the ODF format.  Much of the EU is changing over. 

Thanks [member=5916]trinidad[/member] I guess I will just keep the editing of ODTs to my linux machine, it's my main machine for productivity anyway, the Win 10 PC is more for gaming and maybe Matlab stuff as that eats RAM for breakfast.