[users] Re: Potential Problems with Large Documents?
If you open AndrewMacro.odt in OOo 3.3 and then close the document, OOo will crash. This is because there are more than 32K (or is that 64K) style changes in the document. Note that this bug is fixed in OOo 3.4 I believe (or at least the dev versions that I have run contain the fix). At 100 pages, you are likely pretty safe. AndrewMacro.odt contains an extreme number of style changes because of color-coded program listings. This means that there may be hundreds of changes per page. On 05/14/2011 02:28 PM, Adam wrote: I've been reading with interest the thread on Crisis-Thesis Corrupted and just wondered, I have a document that is now 5Mb in size, 100 A4 pages and contains close to 40 images that is about 2 days away from being completedis there any physical document size constraint or potential problems with large documents that I should be aware of? Or are there any precautions that can be recommended. I do regular backups but would just die if anything should happen to prevent me from successfully completing this document. Thanks for nay feedback on this... -- Adam (wanting to tread cautiously) -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Potential Problems with Large Documents?
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: If you open AndrewMacro.odt in OOo 3.3 and then close the document, OOo will crash. This is because there are more than 32K (or is that 64K) style changes in the document. Note that this bug is fixed in OOo 3.4 I believe (or at least the dev versions that I have run contain the fix). At 100 pages, you are likely pretty safe. AndrewMacro.odt contains an extreme number of style changes because of color-coded program listings. This means that there may be hundreds of changes per page. On 05/14/2011 02:28 PM, Adam wrote: I've been reading with interest the thread on Crisis-Thesis Corrupted and just wondered, I have a document that is now 5Mb in size, 100 A4 pages and contains close to 40 images that is about 2 days away from being completedis there any physical document size constraint or potential problems with large documents that I should be aware of? Or are there any precautions that can be recommended. I do regular backups but would just die if anything should happen to prevent me from successfully completing this document. Thanks for nay feedback on this... -- Adam (wanting to tread cautiously) -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions. With all the footnotes and cross references I would hate to have to split this document that I am now working on into smaller docs so will continue and see how it goes. Taking lots of backups and keeping fingers crossed. -- Adam -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Cross References
Sorry if this is a dumb question but as I am under the pump here and can't work this out. I have noticed that when I add a cross reference a period is added immediately after this in the document. Can someone please tell me how can I stop this? Appreciate the earliest response... -- Adam -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Potential Problems with Large Documents?
Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions. With all the footnotes and cross references I would hate to have to split this document that I am now working on into smaller docs so will continue and see how it goes. Taking lots of backups and keeping fingers crossed. Note that you can use the Master document feature if you're really worried. Hagar -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Potential Problems with Large Documents?
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Hagar de l'Est hagar_de_l...@openoffice.org wrote: Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions. With all the footnotes and cross references I would hate to have to split this document that I am now working on into smaller docs so will continue and see how it goes. Taking lots of backups and keeping fingers crossed. Note that you can use the Master document feature if you're really worried. Hagar -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help The Master document feature!!! I'm sorry but I don't know what this is :( Adam -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: How to turn off automatic numbering permanently?
At 19:28 14/05/2011 -0700, you wrote: ... now if I hit Enter at the end of a paragraph that is numbered Writer is assuming that I want the next paragraph numbered as well. I had this permanently turned off before, but now I can't find the setting in Tools Options to turn it off permanently again. That's because it's not in Tools | Options... ! Can someone please point out where the setting is? Remove the tick from Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Options | Apply numbering - symbol: *. Incidentally, a quick way to disable this if you have the option ticked but don't want it on a particular occasion is to use Edit | Undo (or Ctrl+Z) immediately it happens. This will undo the autocorrection but leave the normal effect of the keystroke which stimulated it - exactly what you want. I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Odd Extension Offering
On 14/05/2011 5:42 AM, Hagar de l'Est wrote: Try to remove the extension: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?p=362#p362 Hagar When I start Open Office in the top right hand corner is always a symbol which has the tool tip Extensions available - Click for more info That in itself is OK but when I click it it offers me French classic and Reform 1990 Spelling, thesaurus and hyphenation. Version 4.1 That is all it ever offers me. Thank you, followed those instructions for WIN7 and it worked perfectly Problem solved Regards Bruce -- Bruce Lloyd http://www.brucelloyd.net/ PO Box 167 Dapto NSW 2530 -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: How to turn off automatic numbering permanently?
On Sun, 15 May 2011 11:41:16 +0100 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com dijo: but now I can't find the setting in Tools Options to turn it off permanently again. That's because it's not in Tools | Options... ! Can someone please point out where the setting is? Remove the tick from Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Options | Apply numbering - symbol: *. Thanks! -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Automatic URL recognition
OOo 3.3.0 on Fedora 14, x86_64, from OOo, not from repositories. In Tools AutoCorrect Options I have unchecked URL Recognition, yet Writer still makes an URL underlined and clickable. Is there something else that I need to uncheck somewhere? -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Automatic URL recognition
At 10:22 15/05/2011 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: OOo 3.3.0 on Fedora 14, x86_64, from OOo, not from repositories. In Tools AutoCorrect Options I have unchecked URL Recognition, yet Writer still makes an URL underlined and clickable. Is there something else that I need to uncheck somewhere? There are two boxes against URL Recognition, one for typing and the other for modifying. Have you unticked both - or the appropriate one for your purposes? I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Cross References
On 15/05/2011 10:00, Adam wrote: Sorry if this is a dumb question but as I am under the pump here and can't work this out. I have noticed that when I add a cross reference a period is added immediately after this in the document. Can someone please tell me how can I stop this? Appreciate the earliest response... Never having used cross references before, I thought it would be a good idea to see how they work. So I followed the help file instructions for a text cross reference. For me they work fine - no spurious dots or anything. That's OOo 3.1.1/XP. Perhaps it might be worth your doing likewise on a dummy document to see if anything's different. Might give a clue. Otherwise I think you'll need to give more information - /exactly/ how are you creating the fields, and /exactly/ what appears on screen (eg, a reference appears as a field, which has a grey background - is the dot part of this?) before you'll get help. Oh, and the OS/version; you never know. And maybe post a short example. Sorry no actual solution! -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Potential Problems with Large Documents?
On 15/05/2011 11:38, Adam wrote: The Master document feature!!! I'm sorry but I don't know what this is :( The help file is a mine of handy information. Otherwise Google. The master document feature allows a single document to be split over multiple files. -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Potential Problems with Large Documents?
See http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Master_Documents Hagar On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Hagar de l'Est hagar_de_l...@openoffice.org mailto:hagar_de_l...@openoffice.org wrote: Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions. With all the footnotes and cross references I would hate to have to split this document that I am now working on into smaller docs so will continue and see how it goes. Taking lots of backups and keeping fingers crossed. Note that you can use the Master document feature if you're really worried. Hagar -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org mailto:users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org mailto:sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help The Master document feature!!! I'm sorry but I don't know what this is :( Adam -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Inserting a page before a table
I have a form that consists of one table. The table starts at the very beginning of the page. I can not figure out how to insert a new page before the table. I can't get the cursor outside of the table at the top. How ? Thanks in advance. Bill -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] hi from vienna
i just wanted to say - thanks for the open source possibility!! i will donate later for sure i got a netbook with MS win 7, starter edition... word and excel on this program is in simple words - SHIT so i got the info from a friend, that i should download open office, and it worked i am able to open .doc in open sourcemore features i am going to check the next days. thanks, and keep on doing what you do greetings maria -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] fake/phishing Openoffice site
Hi - are you aware of any fake or phishing Openoffice download site? I recently googled open office to find the download site. The top return came back with Openoffice 2011 download and showing www.openoffice.org as the url address yet when I followed the link, an address of www.openofficeonline2011.com was directed and opened. The site appeared very ligit, offered many download buttons, yet displayed latest version as 3.1.1. The download button directed to this address: www.openofficeonline2011.com/download.php following the link to that address produced a blank page with brief message about page not available ... I am concerned about any infection this site may have conveyed through clicking visiting it. Thank you for your time. I hope this heads up is useful to you as well. David J. Evans 972 226-9847 -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Potential Problems with Large Documents?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/05/2011 08:16, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: If you open AndrewMacro.odt in OOo 3.3 and then close the document, OOo will crash. This is because there are more than 32K (or is that 64K) style changes in the document. Note that this bug is fixed in OOo 3.4 I believe (or at least the dev versions that I have run contain the fix). Can you explain more than 32K style changes in the document in more detail? I don't remember ever having OOo crash because I was using too many styles. Even in those documents that contained text in a hundred different languages, and a dozen paragraph styles for each language. IOW, text that used more than 1,000 paragraph styles, in addition to umpteen hundred (¿500?) character styles, 30+ page styles, 100+ list styles, and ten frame styles. OOo was stable. Saving the document to MS Word format, and then opening it with MSO on Windows is a different story. It is trivial to create documents with OOo on Windows, that when opened with MSO on Windows will cause an instant Blue Screen of Death. jonathon - -- All emails sent to this with email address with a precedence other than bulk, or list, are forwarded to Dave Null, unread. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJN0Cq2AAoJEDqP6lg9AbnKXM4H/jfMomvYBBN5KnnX1dofg8vp W6y9IVn4rhYZRaAOOUbjnq/egFtuGba1uQY/P96cY46Qo7KOnV56rkvXc8lSgVy2 Proi/1fcyJdqRZowbFJsJ10lHIJk6OXdz+LaO70WCjjWKzHxvnrkx2puWVDpLmi3 jIVuc+2i4AifomiOz4g20AaAXb0/uESolw0EbYpvOyyBPqbqnTLykdhq5rxFwrUA nki5NxB2IQ6xhwvU1w+vLOtPCtJToL/m+GlbLGcnaaFGu9H4sr5eTBG0wiPO1WWi UzA7CmYEdHPypcpmJrhl5wpC1OAG/NFnjoSxJdunZbmkvFIG+SlB2SJUhclIFbA= =ax6f -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Inserting a page before a table
On 5/14/2011 11:01 AM, william drescher wrote: I have a form that consists of one table. The table starts at the very beginning of the page. I can not figure out how to insert a new page before the table. I can't get the cursor outside of the table at the top. How ? Thanks in advance. Bill I'm using OOo version 3.1.1 (not the newest, I realize). I just tried it and found it to be simple: I put the insertion point to the left of the first character in the upper left hand cell of the table, and press Enter, and it moves the table down one line and puts the insertion point at the top of the page, outside of the table. In some earlier version, I remember struggling to do that task, though. -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Inserting a page before a table
I tried it and it worked also. Just put the cursor to the far left in the first cell and press enter. Jay Taunton From: Richard Detwiler rldetwi...@frontiernet.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2011 3:45 PM Subject: [users] Re: Inserting a page before a table On 5/14/2011 11:01 AM, william drescher wrote: I have a form that consists of one table. The table starts at the very beginning of the page. I can not figure out how to insert a new page before the table. I can't get the cursor outside of the table at the top. How ? Thanks in advance. Bill I'm using OOo version 3.1.1 (not the newest, I realize). I just tried it and found it to be simple: I put the insertion point to the left of the first character in the upper left hand cell of the table, and press Enter, and it moves the table down one line and puts the insertion point at the top of the page, outside of the table. In some earlier version, I remember struggling to do that task, though. -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help-- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Automatic URL recognition
On Sun, 15 May 2011 18:38:23 +0100 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com dijo: At 10:22 15/05/2011 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: OOo 3.3.0 on Fedora 14, x86_64, from OOo, not from repositories. In Tools AutoCorrect Options I have unchecked URL Recognition, yet Writer still makes an URL underlined and clickable. Is there something else that I need to uncheck somewhere? There are two boxes against URL Recognition, one for typing and the other for modifying. Have you unticked both - or the appropriate one for your purposes? Yes, both boxes are unchecked. It does not underline and make clickable a link that I type. But if there is a link in text copied and pasted into the Writer document it still underlines it and makes it clickable. This happens even if I paste special. The only way to get rid of it is to take the time to go to Format Default Formatting. Even just double-clicking on the paragraph style in the Styles toolbar does not change it; I have to go to Format Default Formatting to get rid of it. It is time-consuming and annoying, especially considering that I use Writer only for writing academic papers that will be printed on paper. As far as I know there is no way to click on a paper document, yet the underlining and colored text still appear on the paper. -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Cross References
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 3:42 AM, Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.ukwrote: On 15/05/2011 10:00, Adam wrote: Sorry if this is a dumb question but as I am under the pump here and can't work this out. I have noticed that when I add a cross reference a period is added immediately after this in the document. Can someone please tell me how can I stop this? Appreciate the earliest response... Never having used cross references before, I thought it would be a good idea to see how they work. So I followed the help file instructions for a text cross reference. For me they work fine - no spurious dots or anything. That's OOo 3.1.1/XP. Perhaps it might be worth your doing likewise on a dummy document to see if anything's different. Might give a clue. Otherwise I think you'll need to give more information - /exactly/ how are you creating the fields, and /exactly/ what appears on screen (eg, a reference appears as a field, which has a grey background - is the dot part of this?) before you'll get help. Oh, and the OS/version; you never know. And maybe post a short example. Sorry no actual solution! -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help Let me be more specific. My document has numbered paragraphs and if within the text I add a cross reference to one of these paragraphs using Insert Cross r*e*ference... Numbered Paragraphs and then select Number in the Insert reference to option I get the following in the insertion point of my text: 84. --- note the period so what I want to do is add words like: .see paragraph 84 above. where 84 has been inserted with the cross reference function but I am getting (note the period after the 84 .see paragraph 84. above. suggesting that the sentence has ended after the 84. Hope this clarifies. Adam -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Problem with Cross-Reference
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:13 PM, RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.netwrote: Adam wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:53 PM, RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net mailto:rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Adam wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:55 AM, RA Brown rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net mailto:rabr...@the-martin-byrd.net Are you by chance saving to .doc format? Yes is that a problem :( I need to save it in.doc format as my firm uses MS Word Adam Yes, it can be very much of a problem. The MS formats were closed and had to be reversed engineered to get what is available. The ability to create MS formats is better in OOo then MS's ability to create ODF formats. You should also ways save in the native ODF format and only save as MS format just to send a copy to someone else. If you really need 100% compatibility then you really need MSO. ** Please reply to the mailing list, to keep the information available for others ** So just to clarify, if I save in native ODF format and only save as MS format just to send a copy to someone else, when I do send it to others they will see the correct cross-references! Appreciate if you could confirm this otherwise I may end up in a real mess. Thanks Adam The only way to verify that is to test it, on each file. Some of the formating will 'stick' others will not. There are file viewers for MS formated documents from MS. If your running a version of Windows you can use those to see if the documents come out the way you want. Funnily enough if I use the Page number instead of the paragraph number in cross references it works fine. That is Instead of using Insert Cross r*e*ference... Numbered Paragraphs and then selecting Number in the Insert reference to option If you use Insert Cross r*e*ference... Numbered Paragraphs and then select Page in the Insert reference to option then your document is saved with correct cross references. I sense that this is a relatively easy bug to fix and would enable better and safer functionality when needing to work with partners using MS Word. Adam -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[users] Re: Automatic URL recognition
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Sun, 15 May 2011 18:38:23 +0100 Brian Barkerb.m.bar...@btinternet.com dijo: At 10:22 15/05/2011 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: OOo 3.3.0 on Fedora 14, x86_64, from OOo, not from repositories. In Tools AutoCorrect Options I have unchecked URL Recognition, yet Writer still makes an URL underlined and clickable. Is there something else that I need to uncheck somewhere? There are two boxes against URL Recognition, one for typing and the other for modifying. Have you unticked both - or the appropriate one for your purposes? Yes, both boxes are unchecked. It does not underline and make clickable a link that I type. But if there is a link in text copied and pasted into the Writer document it still underlines it and makes it clickable. This happens even if I paste special. The only way to get rid of it is to take the time to go to Format Default Formatting. Even just double-clicking on the paragraph style in the Styles toolbar does not change it; I have to go to Format Default Formatting to get rid of it. It is time-consuming and annoying, especially considering that I use Writer only for writing academic papers that will be printed on paper. As far as I know there is no way to click on a paper document, yet the underlining and colored text still appear on the paper. I think you will find that what your looking for by looking at the Character styles for Internet Link. That controls the color and underline, which is what is showing up when printed. It will still be clickable in Writer bu will not show as a link. Andy HTH -- - To unsubscribe send email to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
