The way I deal with this in other places, such as the chapter on templates, is to tell the reader to look in Tools > Options > OOo > Paths to find out what the path is. I realise that "Basic" is not one of the items listed there, but we should be able to say something similar about finding that directory.
--Jean On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 20:59 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > My primary concern is that Windows 7, Windows XP, and Linux all use > very different paths as to where things are stored (and I have no idea > where Mac versions store things, and the different flavors are simply on > their own.) . Linux users can generally sort things out. > > That said, your changes look fine in context, and, the other issue we > should likely treat uniformly across documents. So, what other documents > discuss storage locations? Perhaps we can simply label this an advanced > topic or enumerate the possibilities. For example: > > Linux, start from the user directory, so the structure is > ~/.openoffice.org/3/user > > Windows I cannot verify at the moment (I am on a Linux box) > > Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\<name>\Application Data. User > macros are stored in OpenOffice.org\3\user\ > > Windows 7: C:\Users\<name>\AppData\Roaming\OpenOffice.org\3\user\ > > No idea about Mac. Thoughts? > > > On 10/03/2010 06:55 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > Thanks, Andrew. That's more good news. Meanwhile, I found three places > > that referred to OOo2.x and changed them. One was a generic statement > > that I think is no longer needed and the others were paths > > with .openoffice.org2.0/ in them, which I believe should now > > be .openoffice.org/3/ -- you might like to check the chapter to make > > sure I got it right in context. I used change tracking so you can find > > them quickly. > > > > http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/gs3/V3_3_revisions/0113GS3-GettingStartedWithMacros_JHW_JS_20100730.odt/view > > > > --Jean > > > > On Sun, 2010-10-03 at 18:37 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: > >> I am not aware of any changes. > >> > >> On 10/03/2010 06:11 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > >>> Andrew, Do you know of any OOov3.3 changes that affect the GS with > >>> Macros chapter? Thanks. > >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
