| The Wonders of Forced Docs Conversion | oxytocin | 5/5/12 8:45 AM | Below is how Google has converted a 4-line listing in a doc that it's auto-converted (auto-converted -- i.e., converted by its own decision). The first 4 lines are from the original doc. The lines beneath those are the results of Google's conversio |
| Re: The Wonders of Forced Docs Conversion | Gill | 5/6/12 7:58 AM | What exactly did you do? Upload a word doc? Can you please give exact instructions, and also tell us which computer and browser you are using? |
| Re: The Wonders of Forced Docs Conversion | oxytocin | 5/6/12 8:26 AM | This was an already-existing Google Docs doc (not uploaded, etc.). I didn't do anything. Google has been converting my documents. When I opened this one, I noticed the mess it had made of those lines of text. I went back to 'See original' and cop |
| Re: The Wonders of Forced Docs Conversion | Gill | 5/7/12 3:20 AM | OK, thanks. I have no idea what happened here - I will escalate to the Guides for you. |
| Re: The Wonders of Forced Docs Conversion | oxytocin | 5/7/12 6:20 AM | Thanks. I wonder if any thought was given to creating 'conversion templates' that could be used to reformat converted documents according to certain rules (such as specific reformatting for 'tables'), rather than forcing users to manually reformat e |
| Re: The Wonders of Forced Docs Conversion | Adah | 5/7/12 6:29 AM | Hi there oxytocin - Thanks for your post, and thanks to Gill for escalating. Are you willing to share the document with our team so that we can try to understand what happened in this case? This sounds pretty unusual, and while we do expect some for |
| Re: The Wonders of Forced Docs Conversion | Gill | 5/7/12 2:57 PM | Thanks Adah. |
| Re: The Wonders of Forced Docs Conversion | oxytocin | 5/7/12 8:11 PM | I could share the document with you but what would be the point now? The glitches I posted are in the revision history, but I've already edited the document back to what it was. It's one of the more dramatic instances of an array of things I've pos |
| Re: The Wonders of Forced Docs Conversion | Gill | 5/8/12 10:05 AM | Sounds as if you have it open on an Android device - hence the little green man. |
| Re: The Wonders of Forced Docs Conversion | oxytocin | 5/8/12 1:17 PM | No, I'm just staring at my Mac laptop (no android device). |