HTML formatting Problem : MS Word Document Generation with OpenOffice 2.4

Question

I am using Openoffice.org to convert HTML document into a Microsoft Word document. We used divs to create a formatting block, but Openoffice is ignoring it. So we are forced to use tables and those, too are spilling out of the generated Word document on the right side. So i was wondering if there was any other way, where I can have formatted text separated by tabs (or a certain number of space)

Our text blocks in the Word document should look like below:

Area:  Area2                                                              
Sales:               Combined Sales:

Area A                                                                                    
                                           Pound           0.aaaa /unit

       Surcharge:                          Pound          0.aaaa /unit

Wishing you a wonderful weekend!!!

Suhaas

Answer 1

my own experience tells me openoffice's html rendering is nigh on useless and thus so are any documents it creates form imported html my own cv for instance is html and just because of this i always have to get a friend with ms-word to do the html to doc conversions then i take the doc and use openoffice to create the rtf odt pdf etc versions