On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 11:46:40 -0500, Gene Young wrote:
download and install the add on Signature Switch.
Can find it for Thunderbird and Firefox.
Where can something similar for OpenOffice (Writer)?
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 19:00:18 -0800, NoOp wrote:
What is tedious about it? Copy your address info Insert|Envelope and
paste your bits.
Ypu think having to copy/paste one's own address, etc. *and*
recipient's address each time is *not* tedious?!
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:07:15 +, I wrote:
would not want to have always the same size at the front of
every document.
I suppose I could have them as the first 2 pages, then choose which
to use...
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:17:43 +, Harold Fuchs wrote:
Page1 is in a
section on its own so it can have its own page characteristics - size,
orientation etc. It has my sender info in the place (and tiny font) I
prefer and an empty text box into which I paste the name address of the
On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:48:55 -0800, NoOp wrote:
add your sender information in the 'Sender' box. -
That's the tedious bit, and why I instead use an 'envelope' file
already set up with sender info and addressee box, so all I have to
do is paste the recipient's address and print.
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:08:05 +0530, Ketan Patel/Ahmedabad
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Solution for 2)
Select Default option as shown in attached screen-shot. (Or u can use
Clear Formatting option as shortcut )
Thanks, Ketan!
Sadly, using either of those 2 settings made no difference.
With
Using OO Writer 3.2.0, I have come across a weird error in converting
from .odt to .doc. As a simple example:
If the .odt file contains the following line (literally) in Verdana font:
Apostrophe then “s” follows’s
after saving it as a Word 6.0 .doc file it contains:
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:08:05 +0530, Ketan Patel/Ahmedabad
Branch/IT/General wrote:
Solution for 2)
Select Default option as shown in attached screen-shot. (Or u can use
Clear Formatting option as shortcut )
Attached? Would very much lkke to see the solution!
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On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:32:34 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
How delightedly old fashioned
77-year-olds tend to be a bit like that!
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On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:50:02 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote:
leaves us wondering what is the point of Writer's envelope
provisions.
I did try them, and found them cumbersome compared with the
'envelope template' approach.
Perhaps in the meantime they have become slicker, but as I don't do
a lot
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:56:49 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote:
her approach says to
make a template - take as much time as you need to get it right - and
then use it whenever you need an envelope.
That's exactly what I do - for the two sizes of envelope that I
use.
Works fine for me.
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:04:30 +0100, Maurice Batey wrote:
Could someone provide a simple example of what the two 'Assign'
actions actually *do*, please?
No response; perhaps it's a mystery to all.
Or is there an explanation somewhere, perhaps?
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On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:01:22 -0700, RA Brown wrote:
Say you start a Default new document then decide to use a template
you have saved. Using the changer should change the styles used.
template you have saved
Do you mean *saved* using the:
File - Templates - Assign template
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:07:27 +1000, Dave Barton wrote:
Maybe this extension will help:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/templatechanger
Have installed that but am not too clear how it is used.
The web site says:
This extension will add two new items to the File -
Elsewhere I've had my attention drawn to the following method of
vastly speeding up the launch of Writer.
I don't remember seeing this mentioned in here before.
Anyone know of a problem with this?
http://www.fewt.com/2010/06/speed-up-open-office.html
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On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 09:13:04 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote:
Enabling Quickstarter
affects only the time spent preparing for the first use, not the overall
operation of OOo,
Well, I did title the posting Speeding up *launch* of OO Writer!
But thank you for the feedback, Barbara; most
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:17:34 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote:
the cited article wasn't restricted to launch
You are right!
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On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:35:19 +0200, Lars Nooden wrote:
You've probably missed the brouchure tutorial:
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2008/03/printing-two-si.html
I downloaded and tried the 'brochurewithframes.odt' template from
that site, but couldn't see how it worked.
On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:52:21 +, I wrote:
'brochurewithframes.odt' template
via the ...template here for a tri-fold brochure link..
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On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:13:37 -0600, Troll/Idiot wrote:
The frames are
linked so that text will flow naturally to the proper frame.
Yes, I see that now - thanks.
(But the Second Page header is still misplaced - above the top of the
frame, unlike the other 2 headers, and I can't move it.)
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:26:15 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
However, you can always download clip arts.
http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Clipart-to-OpenOffice.org
When I tried the above in OpenOffice 3.1.1, Writer locked up at the
'Add all' stage (Step 11 of the web site instructions).
Having done
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:39:21 +, I wrote:
When I tried the above in OpenOffice 3.1.1, Writer locked up at the
'Add all' stage (Step 11 of the web site instructions)...
Apologies for double posting! I failed to notice that my original
posting had arrived OK in the thread started by
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:19:39 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote:
I'm adding it just fine on my nearly 7 year old box...
Where do the contents of the 375MB download actually finish up?!
(Here, nothing seemed to have been added to ~/.ooo3/gallery.)
Roughly how long did the install take on
On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:19:39 -0600, Programmer In Training wrote:
What speed processor? How much RAM?
Intel Core 2 Quad Q8300 (2.50GHz). 4GB RAM.
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On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:20:37 +, Maurice Batey wrote:
At this point a small window headed 'Apply' opened, but it was
incomplete, and would not respond to mouse clicks. It also locked up
Writer.
Trying again, I find that adding individual items from the
(very long) list does work
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:26:15 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
However, you can always download clip arts.
http://www.wikihow.com/Add-Clipart-to-OpenOffice.org
When I tried the above in OpenOffice 3.1.1, Writer locked up at the
'Add all' stage (Step 11 of the web site instructions).
Having done
I'm using 64-bit Mandriva 2008.0/KDE3.5.9 on a laptop (1GB RAM)
Using the Mandriva-supplied 64-bit OpenOffice Writer V 2.2.4, I was
finding that the first document took around 3 minutes to load (and if
I opened anything else during this period the whole desktop locked
up).
However, if I waited
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:39:50 -0700, Bob Estes wrote:
Check this out:
http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windows7/archive/2009/04/24/windows-7-release-candidate-update.aspx
This is not a Windows newsgroup, is it?!
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When starting to use OO Writer 3.0, is there a way of importing
e.g. the recent documents list, templates, etc. from OO2?
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Having done a complete re-install of Mandriva, and used
Mandriva's own 'font import' facilty (instead of Spadmin),
I find that Writer 2.2.1 now does handle fonts properly...
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:55:21 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
Ok, that means that the font is not known to fontconfig.
Maybe you installed (or tried to install) the fonts using the OOo
spadmin tool?
Yes, indeed!
You can try to track down where the font file is now:
$ locate bradley Papyrus
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:52:53 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
Does Mandriva use fontconfig?
Well, it says it is installed, as is fc-list.
If so, you can try these commands to get
more info:
$ fc-list : family file | grep -i bradley
That command does nothing (like a no-op -- i.e. no output).
Well, in desperation I un-installed Writer 2.2.1 and installed
2.3.1 from the OpenOffice site.
Main post-installation difficulty was actually finding the
Writer executable, as the KDE menu showed no 'OpenOffice'
icon under 'Office', and the executable has for some reason
been renamed
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 09:25:27 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
Did you install the desktop integration rpm? They're in a
subdirectory with the primary rpms. There's a specific one
for selected distributions.
I did keep the one for Mandriva, but I'm not sure it got
installed at generic RPM time, as
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:12:26 -0800, NoOp wrote:
Perhaps you should also check your system fonts see if installed there
as well. /usr/share/fonts
Yes, there are font directories in there, too.
[quoted text muted]
I do not have Mandriva, so can't help you there. But on a Debian
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:56:43 +, I wrote:
Had already did that (copied 2.0.3. fonts over to 2.2.1).
I've even tried deleting the /fonts directory from
/.ooo-2.0/user/, but Writer 2.2.1 still shows the same list of
fonts as before, with the same problem.
I also tried empying the
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:41:03 +1100, Russell Butler wrote:
Settings are in ~/.ooo-2.0 and ~/..openoffice.org2/user/
respectively,
Thanks, Russell.
Looks as though some distributions are calling it the former
and the OO site
the latter.
I'm getting desperate! Uninstalling and
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 15:45:55 -0800, NoOp wrote:
Odd. Where specifically is the font located on your system?
~/.ooo-2.0/user/fonts/
Another thing that you might try is to close OOo, rename the
.openoffice.org2 to x-./openoffice.org2-x and reopen OOo.
There is no openoffice.org2
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:49:22 +, I wrote:
Maybe it's time to un-install and re-install Writer.
Have now done that, but font problem remains.
Anyone any other ideas, please?
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Just moving over onto a more recent version of Mandriva (2008.0), and have
copied my Documents folder over, so using Writer 2.2.1 instead of 2.0.3.
But there is a weird problem with fonts. The first I knew about it was when
I edited one of my documents. The text appeared in the wrong fonts.
On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:12:03 -0800, NoOp wrote:
Don't know the command for Mandriva or SuSE, but Debian/Ubuntu is:
sudo fc-cache -fv
Tried that - no improvement.
You can also copy fonts to your OOo user profile directory:
~./openoffice.org2/user/fonts
Had already did that
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:39:44 -0400, Jim Hartley wrote:
or even a Windoze partition of their own
machine if they happen to be running dual boot
No need to copy; can just link to them!
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I'm currently using OO 2.0.3, as installed with Linux Mandriva 2007.0.
Is there a Mandriva 'urpmi' command that will upgrade from 2.0.3, e.g. to 2.2.1?
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On Sun, 13 May 2007 21:26:23 +0400, Kirill S. Palagin wrote:
Yes - during installation you will have an option of installing just parts
that you want.
OK - thanks, Kirill.
What makes you not want other parts of Office?
To save space on my (Vista) laptop.
(I have the full package
Although I have the full (Linux) package on my desktop, I would like to
install just Writer on my Vista laptop.
Can just Writer be installed?
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the new document I created
today is also in there as well as in the other.)
What purpose does .mdk-folders serve?
Could someone throw some light on this, please?
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:59:30 +0200, Philipp Lohmann - Sun Germany - ham02
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do not let the missing font in the
dropdown disturb you, that dropdown is a combobox, you can simply enter
Times.
Is there no way of getting e.g. Times into the combobox list?
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other files...
Have gone back to using Acrobat to view PDF, and it
seems OK printing now; must have been a temporary printing glitch
earlier...
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them - but it wouldn't.
So, how is one supposed to print PDF files?
(Using Linux SuSE 9.0 Pro, Firefox, KDE, CUPS.)
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(Actually, it does quite a nice job colour-coding various constructs.)
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extension?
Is it really 'on' to use OO Writer to create Web pages?
I would find this much more convenient than using e.g. the Kate editor.
(I notice that it does (correctly) treat .PHP doc's as HTML doc's.)
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file suitable for SuSE 9.0?
Regards,
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On Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:07:49 +0100, I wrote:
I'm now happy with 2.0.1 ( will go to 2.0.3 if I can find a source for CD
copy),
I am assuming that 2.0.3 would pick up and use all the 2.0.1 setup that I
have customised.
(No need to reply if that is so!)
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else done this? If I ask YAST to remove 1.0.0 will it remove only
the executable files?
(Using SuSE 9.0 Pro.)
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On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:29:53 -0400, Chuck wrote:
Sounds like what's being described here is a window that been zoomed to
full screen. Try pressing CTRL+SHIFT+J to get it back to normal.
Quite poss! Thanks, Chuck. Will try that another time...
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to the screen. Then you can see the X for closing the window. ;)
Yes - right on the button! Great - many thanks, Sigrid...
W.r.t.to upgrading to 2.0.3 (?), is this straighforward?
(Using SuSE 9.0 Pro, KDE)
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has moved up on the screen (leaving a gap below),
and once the Title Bar disappears off the top it can't be moved back
down (or can it?).
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is 'File' 'Edit' 'View' 'Tools' 'Window' Help'.
All else is blank.)
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On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 14:54:47 -0400, Pete Holsberg wrote:
So when there's only one doc open, there are two Xs: one that
closes the doc and one that closes Writer.
But in my case when I close the (only) document, there is no 'X' to
then close Writer...
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On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 20:15:10 +0200, Sigrid Kronenberger wrote:
Where did you find OpenOffice.org 2.1
Sorry - dropped bit in memory. Is 2.0.1...
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P.S. I'm also puzzled that - when I open OO2.1 - it puts up an empty
document with letterhead. It doesn't really bother me (it's often
useful!), but I wonder why it does it. Can't find any option that controls
On Tue, 16 May 2006 19:43:42 +0200, Uwe Hobohm wrote:
black fonts print as colors
Some printers - when the black ink is running out - use the colour
cartridges to make a 'black'.
Just a shot in the dark...
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On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:20:26 -0500, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
please file an issue into Issue...
Will pursue this on return from S. of the equator later in Feb...
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as far as I can tell will lead you to this bit of
information.
Exactly right again! That's the knub of it, and that's the fruitless
trail I followed...
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On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 21:13:20 +, Wangshanpo wrote:
if you open a read-only document it allows you to
open an editable copy.
Yes, as I now find (after enabling Extended Tips).
Thank you!
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was hoping for a solution such that I could just hit a key to
get new doc with no letterhead, instead of having to choose a template
dyamically.)
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I am unable to figure out what the 'Edit File' button is
for (even after carefully reading the Help info on it...)
Could someone clear the mists, please?
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On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:54:03 +, I wrote:
Anyone know of CD availability of 2.0.1, please?
Just learned that linuxemporium.co.uk has the 2.0.1 CD's as of today.
(Though the entry is still labelled 2.0.)
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On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:28:47 -0500, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
8daysoftheweek is one.
Thanks for the tip, but when I looked just now, they seem to be stuck at
2.0.0.
Anyone know of CD availability of 2.0.1, please?
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available, please?
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On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:11:34 +0100, Sigrid Kronenberger wrote:
Yes OOo 2.0 can read and write the old files.
Thank you, Sigrid (and Daniel). Much appreciated...
Now to look for a convenient source from which to d/load V2 (2.1?).
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will happen with my old 1.1.0 '.sxw' etc.
files, and letter-heads, styles, etc.?
Does V2 accept them?
Is it possible to install V2 alongside 1.1.0 such that it will
find and read the existing 1.1.0 files?
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