[users] Re: Open Office "save as"

[Uwe Fischer]

On 31.03.2011 00:30, Karen wrote:


When I write a text document in Open Office 3.2 edition and want to send it to
others that dont use Open Office, what do I "save as"?  When I save as-- ODFText
doc "odt" file, others are unable to open the file.

So, if I want to send a text file as attachment, from the pull down menu under
"save as". what format should I save the text so anyone receiving it can open it
to read??



Hi Karen,

it is not necessary to save your current document to another format in 
order to get it mailed to some other user. Just use the menu command 
File -> Send and then choose the format.


See the following blog entry of the Open Office Help Tips'n'Tricks blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/sending_your_document_as_e

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[users] Re: How to select all the text in the document

[Uwe Fischer]

On 01.03.2011 09:42, Uwe Fischer wrote:

On 27.02.2011 21:38, Dotan Cohen wrote:

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:32, Uwe Fischer wrote:

Try pressing Ctrl+A several times :-)
First Ctrl+A selects the text in the current cell, next selects all
text in
the current table, next selects all tables and normal text.



I did try that, thanks. It was de-selected that which was selected. I
think that it was a bug, but installing LibreOffice 3.3 in it's place
took care of that.

Thanks, though!



So Libreoffice managed to fix that old 2002 bug?
http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7747

If yes, congratulation.



no congratulation, they did not fix this bug.

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[users] Re: table styles in impress

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On 25.02.2011 17:20, Daniele Palumbo wrote:

Hi,

anyone knows how to make a new table style in Impress, or to modify an
existing one?

Thanks!
d.


Hi,

unfortunately there is no easy way to do this.

You might be able to copy and paste Calc table areas, however. But 
that's just a workaround.


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[users] Re: How to select all the text in the document

[Uwe Fischer]

On 27.02.2011 21:38, Dotan Cohen wrote:

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:32, Uwe Fischer  wrote:

Try pressing Ctrl+A several times :-)
First Ctrl+A selects the text in the current cell, next selects all text in
the current table, next selects all tables and normal text.



I did try that, thanks. It was de-selected that which was selected. I
think that it was a bug, but installing LibreOffice 3.3 in it's place
took care of that.

Thanks, though!



So Libreoffice managed to fix that old 2002 bug?
http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7747

If yes, congratulation.

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[users] Re: Remove border from specific Writer table cells' boundary

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On 25.02.2011 10:27, Dotan Cohen wrote:

How does one remove the border for between two cells in a Writer
table? In this application Merge is _not_ appropriate, however the
border should not be seen.

Thanks.



Select both cells, then still holding down the mouse key move back to 
have only one cell selected.
Go to menu Table - Table Properties. You see that now the user-defined 
line arrangement only shows the borders for one cell, while when you do 
not select a cell it shows the borders for the whole table.
(Repeatedly) click between the small arrows to set or remove or leave 
border lines.


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[users] Re: How to select all the text in the document

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On 25.02.2011 08:26, Dotan Cohen wrote:

How does one select all the text in an OOo document? Edit ->  Select
All only selects the current table or table cell. Thanks.



Try pressing Ctrl+A several times :-)
First Ctrl+A selects the text in the current cell, next selects all text 
in the current table, next selects all tables and normal text.


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Re: [users] How can I see members.

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On 02/09/11 08:51, Kulolwa Bwoya wrote:
It is obviously that I have joined the org.How am i coming to communicate with 
members.Is Swahili involved also?

 Kulolwa.



Welcome, Kulolwa.

This is the public mail list for users of OpenOffice.org who want to ask 
questions how to use the software. Other users will happily try to 
answer such questions.


If you want to discuss the software or any topic related to 
OpenOffice.org, please subscribe to the public disc...@openoffice.org 
mail list.


See here for some more information: 
http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html#general


There are many language projects - an overview can be found here: 
http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html
The many supported African languages are listed here: 
http://l10n.openoffice.org/languages.html
The Swahili project pages, well, I can find only an external link to 
http://www.kilinux.org/



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Re: [users] Disable the auto opening of dialog boxes for tables and bullets in open office write.

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On 02/09/11 15:44, Filipa Andrade wrote:

Hi,

I searched but I didn't find how to disabled the auto opening of
dialog boxes for tables and bullets in open office write.
Every time I am writing a document and pass over a table or a
numbering section a dialog box opens. I don't want this to happen.

How can I disable it?

Thanks for your help.


Hi Filipa,

in case you mean the toolbars that open when you click in a table or 
numbered list, you can find some steps how to handle these in the 
installed Help and in the Open Office Help Tips 'n' Tricks Blog at 
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/now_you_see_it_now


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Re: [users] question regarding default line space of CJK fonts

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On 01/14/11 15:31, Qianqian Fang wrote:

On 01/14/2011 03:23 AM, James Wilde wrote:
Not only different default line spaces, Qianqian, but there is also a 
difference in the punctuation.  In the examples you provided there is 
a larger space between the last character of the left block and the 
comma, and a smaller space between the comma and the first character 
of the right block in QwnQuanYi Zen.  I assume that you typed the two 
samples identically.


hi James

the difference in comma position is understandable,
as it is the design of the glyphs in the font. But
the default line-space is the part that I don't
understand. I got even more confused when merging a
Tibetan font into Zen Hei and seeing the line-space
getting twice wider.

It looks like the line-space in OpenOffice is
somehow related to the minimum position of all
glyphs. I hope someone can clarify on on this.

thanks

Qianqian


//James




Hi,

I never used Asian fonts, but did you enable the support for Asian fonts 
in OpenOffice.org? (Tools - Options - Language Settings - Languages)


Then you find a tab page Text Grid when you go to Format - Page. May be 
this is of some help.


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Re: [users] MASTER DOCUMENTS

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...
Or, is it possible to import the Help from a downloaded DEV 
release to replace the installed Help that is incomplete? 


Just provide instructions, and nobody gets hurt.  :-)

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 or in doubt
Run in circles
 scream and shout!
...
Kevin, 
 You were earlier given a link to the Master Document chapter in the

Writer Guide. This chapter contains everything you need to know about
creating a master document including many illustrations. It contains
much more that you will find in the Help files. Is there any reason why
you have not used it?

Dan



Kevin just does what the poem in his signature suggests ;-)

The steps at 
http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/writer3/V3_3_revisions are 
indeed much more detailed than any part of the installed Help can ever be.
The installed Help can be replaced by a newer version. But since 
DEV300m91 the method to get context sensitive Help changed ( 
http://eis.services.openoffice.org/EIS2/cws.ShowCWS?Path=DEV300%2Fchangehid) 

So you must use a DEV300m90 or earlier if your production version is an 
OO.o 3.3 or earlier. I don't know where to find this on the Web.


Close OO.o and the (Windows only) Quickstarter.
Make a backup of your installed Help, for example by renaming the Help 
folder to Help_backup.
Install a developer version. Normally there is no system integration, so 
the file associations should still point to the production version 
(however, there is no guarantee...)
Find the Help folder, copy it over to where the production version Help 
was. The folder name must be Help. That's all.


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Re: [users] MASTER DOCUMENTS

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On 01/12/11 00:00, JOE Conner wrote:

On 1/11/2011 1:38 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote:

On 01/11/11 05:29, JOE Conner wrote:
What an interesting life I live.  I decided to create a master 
document for the first time, and that was a total exercise in 
frustration.

So, I began with the help file:


   To Create a Master Document

  1.

 Do one of the following:

  2.




We apologize for the incomplete Help page. A last minute technical 
problem unexpectedly removed all lists that are nested inside other 
lists. We did not detect this problem in time.

The Help page for OO.o 3.3 should be complete again.

Uwe

Will this be corrected for OOo3.30 stable?



No, we learned about this error only in June, 2010. A few days after 
Help freeze for 3.3. Yes, that freeze day was more than half a year ago. 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOoRelease33


It's a pity that we are allowed to provide an updated Help only for 
1/10th releases like 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and so on.

In current DEV300 developer releases, this is fixed since last July.

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Re: [users] MASTER DOCUMENTS

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On 01/11/11 05:29, JOE Conner wrote:
What an interesting life I live.  I decided to create a master document 
for the first time, and that was a total exercise in frustration.

So, I began with the help file:


   To Create a Master Document

  1.

 Do one of the following:

  2.




We apologize for the incomplete Help page. A last minute technical 
problem unexpectedly removed all lists that are nested inside other 
lists. We did not detect this problem in time.

The Help page for OO.o 3.3 should be complete again.

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Re: [users] Calc shows Sort greyed-out

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On 12/31/10 05:29, Lee wrote:

Using version 3.2.1 in OoCalc, I have a list of movie names to sort. Whether
I select all (CTRL A), select the specific columns, or select the range of
cells, the Sort function under Tools is greyed out. Saving the file, closing
and reopening didn't help.

Please advise; thanks much.Lee


Hello Lee,

Calc cannot sort with Edit->Changes->Record enabled. Temporarily disable 
recording changes, sort, then enable change tracking again (if you need 
that at all).


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Re: [users] Re: PDF Conversion

[Uwe Fischer]

On 12/12/10 07:08, NoOp wrote:

On 12/11/2010 02:45 PM, Douglas Hinds wrote:

NoOp mentioned:


While doubling the size of the PDF, you can save as a 'hybrid' PDF. That
way you can open the PDF directly in Writer and edit.

That's definitely worth a try.

But if I open a pdf file as such from oo write it will open it in oo
draw which does not offer that format when I try to save it.


I didn't say that the hybrid feature will work with existing PDFs.
Please read what I wrote.

If I a export a PDF as a hybrid file, and then open OOo and select
File|Open|path to the hybrid PDF, the file opens in Writer.



There is some information about the hybrid PDF format in the 
OpenOffice.org Help Tips and Tricks blog:

http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/openoffice_org_exports_and_imports

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Re: [users] how to specify a macro for "Graphics load successful"?

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On 09/09/10 20:26, Mike Scott wrote:

Subject says it the help file says
Choose Insert/Format - Picture - Macro tab

but nowhere can I find a Macro tab. (OOo 3.2/ubuntu, Impress.)


(yes, this is related to the video query! I'm now trying to trigger a 
macro on load of a new slide - this seemed a possible route, but looks 
unavailable. Any ideas welcome please.)





Hi,
the Help page that you cite is for Writer only. You cannot see this page 
when you call the Help from Impress.


While the Writer UI supports to bind a macro to an event, in Impress it 
looks like you need to do some macro programming:

http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=31312

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Re: [users] Envelops

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On 09/07/10 03:41, John Kaufmann wrote:

In a message dated 2010.09.06 18:03 -0500, Clayton wrote:


Several of the people who wrote the User Guide content are active
there, and can either take the knowledge you do have and maybe
correct the docs, or contribute to some combined effort to "get it
right" or at least less confusing. From there, we can look at
correcting or clarifying the application Help a little.  ...

... armed with the right questions, we can chase down the developers
and maybe get some clarification. It won't be an instant solution,
but it can be added to the list of things to fix in the docs. We've
got people on the Doc team willing to jump in there and fix things if
they know what needs to be worked on. This would be a great project
for someone.


Sounds promising. I'm only worried about the "/maybe/ get clarification" 
- people who do documentation should never have to wonder whether they 
can get clarification on what they document.


John




Hi,

the OpenOffice.org software code has its roots waaayy back in the last 
millenium.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openoffice.org and 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarOffice


It is very possible that the developers of older software modules are no 
longer available for questions and answers. And the current developers 
normally have other priorities than to browse through very old code just 
to see how some features work internally.


Mail merge, envelopes, and such are very old features, having been 
available since the first release of StarWriter. And the corresponding 
Help pages might be as old :-(


Do not assume that Help authors have access to a universal source of 
complete answers to all their questions. They can ask the developers 
about new features, but for most old features there is only 
experimentation or code inspection.


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Re: [users] [Solved] Re: [users] change scroll behavior

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Hi Thomas,

the OpenOffice.org Help Tips 'n' Tricks blog has a tip how to scroll by 
one page down or up.

http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/navigation_in_writer

May be this is helpful

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Re: [users] MONTH type

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On 06/11/10 14:25, Vic Dura wrote:

Hello,

According the OOo 3.2.0 (WinXP) Help:

=
MONTHS
Calculates the difference in months between two dates.
Syntax
MONTHS(StartDate; EndDate; Type)
StartDate is the first date
EndDate is the second date
Type calculates the type of difference. Possible values include 0
(interval) and 1 (in calendar months).
=

Could some kind soul explain the difference between "interval" and
"calendar" months?  I don't know what the difference is.

Thanks



Thank you for using the Help.
In the Wiki at 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_MONTHS_function 
you can find a much improved version by OO.o user Drking.

May be this helps.

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Re: [users] Multiple "sheets" in Writer

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On 06/11/10 03:42, RA Brown wrote:

Barbara Duprey wrote:


Instead of focusing on parallels to Calc, let's think instead about this:

   * You have a "family" of text documents, all related to the same
 overall function.
   * The documents are fully independent of each other for such things
 as styles, page numbering, layout, and so on.
   * When something causes you to want to edit or refer to one of these
 documents, chances are high that your requirement extends also to
 the other documents in the family.
   * Currently, each of these documents has a different name, and you
 open each in a separate window to achieve your objective.
   * The proposal is to allow the documents to retain their
 independence, but be contained in a single file that can be opened
 with one action and makes the individual documents readily
 accessible from each other to streamline the updating and/or
 referencing activities you need to perform.
   * When you have accomplished your task, you currently close each
 document separately. With the new structure, a single action
 closes all the documents.

Besides improving efficiency for the document owner, an advantage to 
this structure is that the recovery information tracks together for 
all the documents, making it less likely that they will get out of 
sync by being restored to different points in your workflow.


Dotan, is this a reasonable statement of your intent here?



Barbara,

Great post.

I would like to see at least one other added: The ability to have text 
and spreadsheets in the same file.  Having the ability to store scanned 
and PDFs documents would be an even bigger plus.


Andy


Hi,
if you replace "file" with "folder", it looks like everything is already 
there.
Just don't use the one and only "My Documents" folder for all your 
documents, but instead create a dedicated folder (may be with 
subfolders) for every project that needs multiple files. You can easily 
select several or all files from your operating system file manager, 
then print or open them.


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Re: [users] Re: Improvements on OpenOffice Smart Tags

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On 03/30/10 14:14, J. David Boyd wrote:

Akila Wajirasena  writes:


Hello,

I am doing a research on how the smart tag capability of OpenOffice can be
improved by adding new smart tag extensions. If you have suggestions about
new smart tags please put them here.


Akila



What are 'smart tags' in OpenOffice?  Have I missed something?




http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/successful_community_project_smart_tags

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Re: [users] don't want 'notes'

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On 02/24/10 16:24, Gracia M. Littauer wrote:
can I set OO NOT to open notes in my documents? I have looked in all the 
settings & can't find anythingthis started with OO3.1.1





just uncheck View > Comments.

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Re: [users] Auto correct

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On 12/17/09 17:09, Ian Davies wrote:
How do I get rid of the annoying flag that keep coming up when auto 
correct does its stuff? It is driving me mad.


Ian


Hi,
if you mean the Help Agent, then look into the Help (press F1) and enter 
"Help Agent" on the Index tab page.
You either disable the Help Agent in Options, or you do not pay 
attention to it three times in a row, then it will no longer appear for 
the same replacement.


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Re: [users] To use Alt-* or Ctrl-* for keyboard shortcuts?

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On 12/14/09 11:27, Harold Fuchs wrote:

2009/12/14 Dotan Cohen 


Many of OOo's menus have keyboard shortcuts underlined. How is the
user supposed to know if the modifier key for the shortcut is Ctrl-*
or Alt-*?

As far as I know, in *Windows* an underlined letter in a menu item

*always*

means Alt and the letter. If OOo does not follow this convention then I
think its authors are in breach of covenant. Can't comment on Linux or

Mac

though.

Seems to be Alt on Linux too.


Thanks. How are the Ctrl-* shortcuts marked?



In Windows they aren't. You just have to know ;-)




uncheck "Control Panel" > "Display properties" > "Appearance" > 
"Effects" > "Hide shortcut keys..."


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Re: [users] Help - I can NOT get OpenOffice to start normally.

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On 12/10/09 22:38, Harold Hauge wrote:

I have created a macro that calls a dialog that is started by the OpenOffice
Start Application event.

I have somehow created a loop that causes the dialog to continue to reopen
after it is closed.  I must use task manager to delete the process so I
cannot get to the code causing the problem.  I also get a note like:  Out of
Stack Space.  However, I have had similar code working OK for the past year.

I uninstalled then reinstalled Office but somehow the event command is still
there.

I am using OpenOffice 3.1  on a computer running   VISTA Home Premium

Any ideas on what I should try next?
Thanks

haugetutu



Hi,

press Shift+Ctrl+Q to stop a macro.

To disable all user settings, temporarily rename the user folder. 
OpenOffice.org will create a new default user folder for you when you 
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Re: [users] Toolbar functions different from menu functions [Was: How to make the "automatic" toolbars stop?]

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On 11/23/09 18:06, John Kaufmann wrote:

Hi Uwe,

My OO education owes much to you seeing the crux of my questions. 
However, in this case I think you missed my concern:

In a message dated 2009.11.23 10:12 -0500, Uwe Fischer wrote:


... functions in the Table toolbar are different from the
"corresponding" functions available via the menu. [In the toolbar,
the Background Color icon has a paragraph/text context, as opposed
to the cell or table context for Background color via the Table
menu. I don't know whether that is right, or good design, or the
intent of the design team, but at least the extended info is 
consistent with the behavior.


you can set different background colors to characters and paragraphs.
In Calc, you can set different backgrounds to cells, too.


Yes, I know that.  The concern is this: In the Table toolbar, the 
Background Color applies not to the table or cell itself, but to 
paragraph/text within a table or cell.  Via the Table main menu or 
context menu, however, the Background Color applies to all of the table 
or cell. (The difference is easily seen if you increase the border 
margins.)  This seems to me erroneous on multiple levels: There are 
other ways to apply a paragraph/text background color (including via the 
Formatting toolbar), without also using the Table toolbar for that 
function. Should not the Table toolbar provide shortcuts to Table 
functions?


This is not the only case where a toolbar function is different from the 
"equivalent" function via the menu; I just chose it because it is easily 
visible.  It seems to me that a certain lack of consistency in 
nomenclature and methods raises the OO learning curve unnecessarily, and 
that toolbar functions being different from menu functions, as a class, 
fall into that category.  Or did I miss something [again ;-) ]?


John



Hi John,

your ideas how to improve the user interface of OOo are certainly worth 
some more thoughts and dicussions. But this is the users mailing list, 
where users ask about how to use OOo. If you want to get into some valid 
discussions about UI, you would want to join one or more of the UX (user 
experience) mailing lists.

The UX project web page is at http://ux.openoffice.org/
The lists disc...@ux.openoffice.org and u...@ux.openoffice.org are quite 
active. Those lists have a much higher probability of being read by the 
people in charge of actively initiating such changes.


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Re: [users] Re: How to make the "automatic" toolbars stop?

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On 11/23/09 15:18, John Kaufmann wrote:

In a message dated 2009.11.23 03:53 -0500, Uwe Fischer wrote:


When the context sensitive toolbar is visible
turn it off using menu:View>Toolbars


This is also the topic of a blog entry in the
OpenOffice.org Help Tips 'n' Tricks blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/now_you_see_it_now


Thanks, Uwe. That page was a revelation, for a couple of reasons:

 1) For the topic at hand, and the use of Shift-F1 for extended tool tip 
info. [I /think/ I should have learned about that earlier, but somehow 
did not.] One of the things that did was to allow an easy 
comparison/verification of my earlier finding that functions is the 
Table toolbar are different from the "corresponding" functions available 
via the menu.  To take the first example, extended tip info says that 
the Background Color icon has a paragraph/text context, as opposed to 
the cell or table context for Background color via the Table menu. I 
don't know whether that is right, or good design, or the intent of the 
design team, but at least the extended info is consistent with the 
behavior.



you can set different background colors to characters and paragraphs. In 
Calc, you can set different backgrounds to cells, too.





 2) For the fact of a large library of OO documentation that I had not 
seen previously mentioned and did not even know existed. Of course I 
added it to my OO bookmarks, and then started seeing how it was 
organized, in order to use it more efficiently the next time there is a 
question. As far as I can see, there is no functional hierarchy of blog 
articles; is that correct? A discreetly small search box, two screens 
down from the top on the main page <http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/>, 
appears to be the only tool for searching for documentation on a topic; 
is that correct?




the blog entries are sorted by creation time ;-)
The tag cloud can be used to filter the results. You can also use Google 
to search the blog. To find all blog entries that contain the word 
"background", enter the following into a Google search box:


background site:blogs.sun.com/oootnt/


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Re: [users] Re: How to make the "automatic" toolbars stop?

[Uwe Fischer]

On 11/21/09 23:00, Barbara Duprey wrote:

Andreas Saeger wrote:

John Kaufmann wrote:

In a message dated 2009.11.21 08:04 -0500, Andreas Saeger wrote:

When the context sensitive toolbar is visible turn it off using 
menu:View>Toolbars


Thanks, Andreas, but then it just comes back next time. When 
something is worse than useless, it has no place in my work 
environment - let alone coming without my request. I want a permanent 
fix.


John


Sorry John, but menu:View>Toolbars works for me. It turns off the 
appearance of context sensitive toolbars permanently. I tested the 
feature with OOo 3.1.1 (Sun Microsystems build) as well as 3.0.1 
(Ubuntu build) and with the toolbars for Writer tables, drawing 
objects and chart formatting (Calc).

This used to work for me since version 2.0.
Andreas


It's always worked for me, too, and currently does on OOo 3.1.1, VistaHP 
(it's always one of the first things I do when installing a new OOo, I 
work a lot with tables and really hate that thing!). John, did you note 
the part about "When the context sensitive toolbar is visible"?  If it 
isn't, turning it off in View > Toolbars would have no effect.




This is also the topic of a blog entry in the
OpenOffice.org Help Tips 'n' Tricks blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/now_you_see_it_now

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Re: [users] Does OO Help's Find support an exact string search?

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On 11/19/09 17:32, John Kaufmann wrote:
Seeking info on the automatic use of Writer's character style "Internet 
Link", I went to OO's Help and did a Find on "Internet Link" - without 
the quotation marks, it should be noted, because Help's Find does not 
support the convention of quotation marks to indicate an exact string 
search - and that is the problem: Is there a way to Find an exact string 
like "Internet Link"?


John


Hi John,

The Find feature in the OOo Help Viewer is not the best programmed 
search, to say it in a polite way. However, sometimes it CAN find what 
you are searching for.
When I enter Internet Link as a search term, it finds all pages where 
both words appear somewhere. One of them is titled "Editing Hyperlinks".
Find can only search for each single word, there is no way to find the 
string "Internet Link" in exactly that case and order, including the 
single blank space.
If you really need to do some advanced search magic (and in this case, 
"advanced" is a term for almost everything), you must use a tool that 
can search through all *.xhp files of your installed help file set.
The xhp files are stored in several *.jar archive files. Either your 
tool can search through archive files, or you first must uncompress the 
jar files to a folder of your choice.


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Re: [users] Open Office Help

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On 11/13/09 15:03, Gerard G wrote:

Would you recomend me some usefull help for Open Office.
I would like to find some EXAMPLE concerning :
1.)  simple form to set parameters,
2.) generating a query with parameters from form,
3.) executing a query, ( generating or updating a table )
4.) making a report based on the table from point 3.)
5.) Passing back some data from the result of query 3.) back to the form to 
adjust parameters.
 
May you send me some usefull internet links for that .

The normal help has to much information and it's quite difficult to find these 
really important.
I would like also to read sth about implementation of the transactions 
mechanism in Open Office.
 


Hi Gerard,

you can find more information about using Base on the 
documentation.openoffice.org page and on the Wiki:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Databases

You may get more answers if you do not crosspost to several lists. Use 
the normal list for user questions (this one), or use the Base list 
us...@dba.openoffice.org


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Re: [users] Syntax of an IF

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On 11/12/09 00:15, Walter Hildebrandt wrote:

I am trying to learn the syntax of the IF formula.so I can modify the
formula into a new, modified formula.

...

try entering or copying that formula to a Calc cell. Remember that 
formulas must start with a = character.

Then click the Function Wizard icon and there click the Structure tab.
Now you see the structure of your formula.

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Re: [users] How OO documentation is organized

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi John,

On 11/04/09 06:17, John Kaufmann wrote:
... 
But for systematic documentation under the auspices of openoffice.org, 
there seem to be two repositories which, frankly, I can't tell apart:

 wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/
 documentation.openoffice.org/
*both* of which are fed from documentation developed at
 oooauthors.org
and elsewhere.  For example, the tutorials pages
 
and  
both seem to carry the same content (just somewhat differently 
formatted).  Why is that?


I assume there is some reason for this divided organization, but I still 
don't see what that is - and have finally decided that my learning curve 
could be improved by asking for help on that point.  Can someone help me 
sort out the documentation model?


John


welcome to the web pages of the OOo documentation project.

You already found the two entry portals. The page 
documentation.openoffice.org is the normal project page, like all other 
entry pages (projectname).openoffice.org.
The Wiki page exists because the documentation project wants to simplify 
collaboration. Every registered user can edit and add pages on the Wiki. 
That's really easy on a Wiki, while it needs some more efforts on a 
"normal" web page.
The contents should be the same if possible, just the layout looks a bit 
different.


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Re: [users] Are there version control tools for openoffice?

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drew einhorn wrote:

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Andy  wrote:

drew einhorn wrote:

Something like RCS, CVS, ...


Drew,

No sure what your looking for here.  OpenOffice.org has some document
version tracking built-in.  When working on the users guides we use OOo's
ability to track and display changes from several users.  If this is what
your looking for I can go into more detail.



Looking for all that, and the ability to compare different versions of the same
file that diverged from a common ancestor outside when the versions were
edited outside of these tools.



So what's wrong with pressing F1 and entering "version"?

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Re: [users] Combine files.?

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On 10/22/09 00:40, James Elliott wrote:
I downloaded the "Combine Files" macro, but when I run it and click on 
the "Install" button nothing happens.


I have prepared several pages of a newsletter.  Each page is saved as a 
Draw file:

Page1.odg
Page2.odg
...
...
Page6.odg

I want to combine these into a single document and then send that 
document off to the commercial printer as a PDF.  I know how to export 
Draw documents to PDF, but what is the easiest way to combine them into 
one?


I would be much obliged for your help.

Many thanks,  James



Hi James,

open the first Draw doc, then choose Insert - File.
Select the next Draw doc, and so on.
The pages will be inserted following the currently selected page.

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Re: [users] How to install Swedish Thesaurus

[Uwe Fischer]

On 10/15/09 16:24, M Henri Day wrote:

2009/10/15 Lars Nooden 


Uwe Fischer wrote:

I've written a short guide how to easily see whether a user is
subscribed to the mailing list or not.


http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/General/How_to_know_if_a_user_is_subscribed_to_a_mailing_list

It'd be easier if the list software were set to flag messages from
unsubscribed users as such.

/Lars



Agree with Lars here

Henri



agreed. But it hasn't been done for years.
So, being an eclectic epicurean, I just posted this workaround.

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Re: [users] How Do I Make My Header Not Appear on Page 1?

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On 10/15/09 12:06, Jay Gilchrist wrote:

Please help.  I want a header to appear on page 2 and thereafter, but NOT on
page 1.   How do I do this?
Thank you,
John Gilchrist



Hi, may be this helps:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Writer/FormattingPagesAndDocuments/How_do_I_make_a_header_appear_on_only_the_first_page_of_my_document%3F

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Re: [users] How to install Swedish Thesaurus

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On 10/15/09 10:38, Harold Fuchs wrote:

2009/10/15 M Henri Day 


2009/10/15 Harold Fuchs 

...

Forwarding to unsubscribed OP.


Thanks, Harold ; I seem to always miss the vital issue of whether or no an
OP is subscribed to the list !...

Henri



Pleasure. There are several people, including you, whose replies are usually
so interesting/valid/to-the-point that (a) I read them almost regardless of
the topic and (b) try to ensure the OP reads them too.




I've written a short guide how to easily see whether a user is 
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Re: [users] Registration wizard and Windows v Linux

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On 10/09/09 13:02, Clayton wrote:

Malcolm Moore wrote:

OK, We have given it a good kicking and it's fine

Many thanks


You have to thank the developers who provided the OXT :-)


that's true. I've forwarded Malcom's message to the developer, Carsten 
Driesner. I did not tell you on the list because I had no idea whether 
Carsten has currently time to fix this. And then Clayton also asked for 
an update. So poor Carsten must have felt overwhelmed...

And sometimes this works ;-)

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Re: [users] Registration wizard and Windows v Linux

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

you may want to open Help and enter the index "start parameters". The 
list of start parameters include two or more options to suppress the 
Welcome Wizard and other messages.


Uwe

On 10/07/09 15:20, Malcolm Moore wrote:

I didn't want  the wizard to pop up at all rather than
choose one of the options

The problem is that we have 500+ machines
and 1300 users. Any user can sit at any machine
If a user sits at 'machine A' and registers thats OK
but then tomorrow they sit at 'machine B' and it asks
them to register again etc etc ...

You get 65 registrations and we have users
that would rather use Word :-(

Mal


"Oh, Bother," said the Borg. "We've assimilated Pooh."
  _  


From: Brad Rogers [mailto:b...@fineby.me.uk]
To: users@openoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:10:36 +0100
Subject: Re: [users] Registration wizard and Windows v Linux

On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:35:32 +0100
  "Malcolm Moore"  wrote:
  
  Hello Malcolm,
  
  > How do I get rid of the registration wizard

  > On Windows it is a real pain. The extension
  > to stop it in 3.1 doesn't work in 3.1.1 any more
  
  "Already registered" should be an option, IIRC.
  
  > In Linux you don't get this annoying 'feature'
  
  It was there when I got OOo (under Linux).  Maybe it's been removed?
  
  -- 
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  / _)radnever immediately apparent"
  
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Re: [users] Localising the user interface

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On 10/07/09 15:03, John Kaufmann wrote:

In a message dated 2009.10.07 05:20 -0500, Uwe Fischer wrote:

it is indeed not easy to find any language pack that will change the 
user interface (UI) language of OpenOffice.org 3.


The 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Download_OpenOffice.org_LanguagePacks 
page only lists language packs for version OOo 2.3.1 unless they just 
forgot to change the listed names  - but may they work in OOo 3, too?


Good catch.  I'm afraid I can't comment on whether they work in later 
versions, because I downloaded from a mirror with version spec 3.1.1 
<http://openoffice.cict.fr/localized/fr/3.1.1/OOo_3.1.1_Win32Intel_langpack_fr.exe>. 
 I have not compared to earlier versions.



I've found some links to look like language packs for OOo 3 at the 
following address: 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Solutions#Language_Packs.2C_Dictionaries_.26_localized_Versions 



? - I'm sorry, I do not see them there.


Now I don't see them, too.
I hope someone will find them at this link:
http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/

Looks really difficult to find a language pack. And then, once you get 
it, it looks even more difficult to install it.


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Re: [users] Localising the user interface

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Hi,

it is indeed not easy to find any language pack that will change the 
user interface (UI) language of OpenOffice.org 3.


The 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Download_OpenOffice.org_LanguagePacks 
page only lists language packs for version OOo 2.3.1 unless they just 
forgot to change the listed names  - but may they work in OOo 3, too?


I've found some links to look like language packs for OOo 3 at the 
following address: 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Solutions#Language_Packs.2C_Dictionaries_.26_localized_Versions


I inserted that information to the Wiki at 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Adding_More_Languages


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Re: [users] Applying different template to OOcalc

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On 09/28/09 10:26, H.S.Rai wrote:

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Brian Barker
 wrote:

At 06:56 28/09/2009 +0530, H.S. Rai wrote:

Changing look and feel of OOcalc document seems not there, whereas it is
there for OOWriter and OOimpress. How one can apply different template to
OOcalc document ...

In the same way that you would for other document types:
o  Create a document with the properties you desire.
o  Go to File | Templates > | Save... to save the document as a template.
o  Create new documents based on this in one of various ways, including File
| New > | Templates and Documents.


I was asking about old file.


... or import style from different file?

This does indeed seem to be missing from Calc.


Doeas it work:

unzip foo.ods

replace styles.xml with styles.xml of different file, style of which
you want to import.

zip files

rename as foo.ods



the OpenOffice.org Help Tips'n'Tricks Blog has two entries that cover 
this topic and give different solutions:


http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/copying_styles_between_calc_spreadsheets

http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/applying_automatic_formatting_to_cells

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Re: [users] New GUI for OOo ?

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On 09/04/09 14:23, Lars Nooden wrote:

Bernd Eilers wrote:

Will the fact that this petition contains advertising for scam sites


The petition does need to move to a serious petition site, away from the
scam site, in order to be taken seriously.  Otherwise, we'll just have
to conclude that it is a very clever troll.



petition phishing troll

;-)

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Re: [users] Re: Petition against OOo Renaissance

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Harold Fuchs wrote:


Do you use professional "usability labs"? These are organisations that get 
people in off the street to try to use a piece of software. Typically the 
people don't have any training. They are observed & interviewed to find what 
comes easily and what doesn't. The results are used to improve the 
software's UI. I have usually found them very useful.




sure we do. Search Google for "sirvaluse staroffice" for just one example.

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Re: [users] Highlighting in Open Office 3.1

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On 08/31/09 13:11, Erling Larsen wrote:

Harold Fuchs skrev:

2009/8/31 tales 

 

  wrote
   

I installed Open Office 3.1 yesterday.  I was using 2.4.  I use XP.
Today I find that I can scarcely
see highlighting any more, particularly in
Calc.
Has my eyesight (or memory) gone since
yesterday morning?  Can I darken
highlighting?

...

this is a new feature in 3.1

"For OOo 3.1, the selection in Writer was adapted to use overlay with 
transparency, similar to what was done in Calc before. That transparency 
is fixed (50% for Writer, 75% for Calc), the color is fetched from the 
system using the highlight/selection color. The old method of XO'ring 
(inverting) the selection was not dismissed, but re-implemented and is 
used when high contrast is used."


see 
http://specs.openoffice.org/ui_in_general/Rework_On_Transparent_Selection.odt


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Re: [users] Hard page break: search and replace

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On 08/18/09 17:44, Jonathan Kaye wrote:

Hi all,
Googled high and low and nothing even close to a solution. Here's the
problem. I'm using mail merge to convert data in a spreadsheet into a nice
report formatted the way I want. Everything is great except that OOo wants
to put a hard page break following every record (83,000 of them) but I want
the records to flow from one to the other without even a line break. (Don't
panic! There are line breaks but they don't come at the end of every
record). So what I would like to do is one of the following:
1. Let OO insert the page breaks and then I use a search/replace to convert
them all to a single space, or
2. Convince mail merge somehow not to put hard page breaks at the end of
every record. Instead it can put whatever it wants as long as I can find it
using a regular expression (so a newline is fine with me. But Openoffice,
unlike WordPerfect (ahem ;)) makes it impossible to find page breaks.

Any solutions will be rewarded by warm thoughts directed towards the genius.
Thanks,
Jonathan



Hi Jonathan,

try this extension:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/AltSearch

Haven't tested it, but might be what you're searching.

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Re: [users] Paste unformatted text

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On 07/24/09 09:48, Harold Fuchs wrote:






Does this mean that OOo 3.2 will include the Alt key in its set of
"customisable" keys?




may be. See http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4756 which 
is set to "Fixed" now.


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Re: [users] Re: Want Full Color Page Without Affecting Text Margins

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On 07/23/09 22:20, Larry Gusaas wrote:

On 2009/07/23 8:57 AM  James Greenidge wrote:
In Write, is there anyway to have a fully colored background edge to 
edge without affecting the text margins? For example, if I set the 
page margins in Page Style Default to 0.00 left and right margins, I 
can have a colored page from edge to edge but also so are the text 
margins going edge to edge instead of 1 inch left and right as I want 
them. Any hints?


In Format/Page, after you have set you margins to zero,  go to "Borders" 
and turn Borders on. Set border colour to same as your background 
colour. Then set "Spacing to contents" to 1 inch or whatever width you 
desire for margins.




Right. You can see an illustrated example in the OpenOffice.org Help 
Tips 'n' Tricks blog:

http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/creating_screen_optimized_pdf_documents

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Re: [users] Help font size

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Hi,

Eustace wrote:
Is there a way to increase the font size in the Help? In the 
Navigation pane it's OK (it gets it from the system, where I have set 
Comic Sans MS as font outside the writing area), but in the pane on 
the right it's too small for me.




please have a look at the OpenOffice.org Help tips and tricks blog at 
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/zooming_the_help_window


If you have a scroll wheel mouse, use the scroll wheel.

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Re: [users] Re: [Solved] Sun Presenter Console Problem with Vista Dual Extended Monitor Setup

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On 07/14/09 03:00, Harold Fuchs wrote:

On 14/07/09 01:18, Gene Kohlenberg wrote:

Harold Fuchs wrote:

On 14/07/09 00:38, Gene Kohlenberg wrote:
I finally remembered that there is an option to choose which monitor 
is used for the presentation.

...



...
I'm surprised your Sun Console 
Presenter has an option.




The Sun Presenter Console is a software that tells an application to 
show window A on monitor 1 and the remaining windows on monitor 2, or 
vice versa.
Surely this cannot be set by the OS or the video driver: they don't know 
about special program windows.
Of course in a two monitor setup (not in clone mode) you can 
drag-and-drop one window of a program to the other monitor, but I doubt 
that this is a permanent setting, so you would have to perform that 
nasty drag-n-drop every time you start a presentation.


I think the Sun Presenter Console can be very helpful, especially for 
laptop owners.


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Re: [users] Unrecoverable Documents OOo 3.1 on Ubuntu

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On 05/18/09 22:31, John Kennedy wrote:

Hi All,
Every time I start OOo I get a list of 4 files that it tries to recover. These 
files are no longer on my computer (they were attachments that I did not save). 
How can stop OOo from trying to recover files that no longer exist?


I entered this as a new FAQ:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/General/How_to_stop_OOo_trying_to_recover_files_when_starting%3F

in short, click Cancel when asked if you want to recover the files.

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Re: [users] Problem with printing from Open Office Writer File

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On 04/30/09 13:45, Jean Lear wrote:

I have been using Open Office for years now with XP.  I updated Open
Office to 3.0.1 at the end of Jan 09. In the past couple of weeks I
have had a problem with some new files made up in OO Writer when
trying to print them.  I have a Brother Laser Printer and a Canon
Pixma printer connected. I do not know whether the problem is with the
Open Office file or the printers but both printers refuse to print out
these files.  The data does not get sent to the printers. To get over
the problem I have copied the file to  MS Word or MS Works files and
the printers will both print them out. Today when I get a refusal to
print I copied the file and pasted it onto another OO Writer file that
I know has printed out in the past (made on an earlier version of Open
Office) and by telling the printer to print page ? where the new work
is the printing can be done. Today I downloaded a new copy of Open
Office 3.0.1 and installed it.  I opened a new OO Writer page, typed a
few lines on it and another refusal to print.  I copied one of the
files that would not print from the previous installation of OO to a
new Writer file and it would not print either. I have just typed some
text into an OO Spreadsheet and it printed OK.  I then copied and
pasted this to a Writer and it would not print.  I am at a loss to
know whether the problem is with Open Office or the printers - more
inclined to think it is in OO.
Has anyone else had such a problem?  Sorry this is so long but wanted
to explain in full what was happening.
Thank you.
me...@gmail.com


Hi,
the documents store the name of the printer and some printer settings 
when you save the documents. So if a printer is no longer available, it 
may be difficult to print that document using the Print icon. You would 
want to use the File->Print dialog and select the right printer.
Also try to clear the checkbox "Load printer settings with the document" 
which is at Tools -> Options -> Load/Save -> General.


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Re: [users] How to print in Handout mode

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Hi,

Wade Smart wrote:


My son needs to print about 100 slides and I wanted to do it in 
Handout Mode but I cant seem to print like that.




you can find some information about printing handouts in the 
OpenOffice.org Tips 'n' Tricks Blog:

http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/printouts_of_your_handouts

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Re: [users] Standalone Help Files

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On 03/26/09 23:50, Ugly Me wrote:

How do you view help files outside of OOo?  As with a few other open source
programs I have used, it uses some bizarre help format that is totally
incompatible with the standard .hlp/.cnt/.fts  and .chm/.chw files that are
easily viewed from the desktop or virtually any directory window by double
clicking them.  I find this quite useful when trying to look up a reference
prior to using a program.  This is, of course a standard in MS Windows - I
don't know if there's a Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris equivalent.  Anyhow if there's
a way to view the help files it would be of great help to me - who knows?
Maybe even to others.  Thanks.



there is an (outdated) guide at the documentation.openoffice.org page:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/online_help/helpers/helpauthoring/guide/OOo2HelpAuthoring.pdf

Mind that the help source files are no "bizarre help format" but use 
well defined XML formats that can be opened and viewed with every text 
editor. While most of the "standard" formats that you list are 
proprietary formats developed by a Company That Must Not Be Named(TM) 
here. You will even not be able to open a "standard" .chm help file on 
their latest operating system Vista.


For viewing the OOo help files, use the OOo Help Viewer. It's free.

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Re: [users] Complex text layout - General Options - Numeral

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Hany Motawea wrote:

Dear Sir:
How can I change the numeral option to (context) in the complex text
layout general options?
I only have three option (Arabic or Hindi or System)
Is there a module or plugin to be added to your program to make it
write numbers in (context) option?

Even when I choose the option (system) & the windows xp numerals
system is adjusted to (context) still not working.


  


Hi,

this option should be available in the next release OpenOffice.org 3.1.
See the specification document at the specs.openoffice.org web page:
http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/ctl/TextNumeralsContextMode-Spec.odt

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Re: [users] OpenOffice 2.4 Writer Indexing

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Brian Barker wrote:

At 18:43 14/03/2009 -0700, DeWayne McCarty wrote:
I am creating an Alphabetic name index for a large book (700+pages). 
When the index is generated, there is an occasional page number with 
a "p" following it. I have not been able to find an explanation to 
what it means. Can anyone tell me what it means?


The indexing facility can combine identical entries on the same or 
consecutive pages.  So "entry 22, entry 22" would be combined as 
"entry 22", "entry 22, entry 23" as "entry 22p." and "entry 22, entry 
23, entry 24" as "entry 22pp." - with "p" meaning "and following page" 
and "pp" meaning "and following pages".  This seems to be the default 
option.  If you prefer not to see the p. and pp. forms, you can remove 
the tick from right-click | Edit Index/Table | Index/Table | Options | 
Combine identical entries with p or pp.


The help text attempts to explain this, but gets it slightly wrong, I 
think.


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


Help text will be slightly better in OOo 3.1
there is also a short discussion of this topic in issue 
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=94602


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Re: [users] Sorting order

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John W Kennedy wrote:

On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote:
For example, in the German spelling bible called "Duden", the umlauts 
Ä. Ö, Ü are sorted as if they are just plain A, O, U characters.


Really? I worked for American Hoechst and its successors for 29 years, 
and I was always instructed to collate them as equal to AE OE UE (and 
ß as equal to ss, of course).




The AE, OE and UE are replacements for Ä, Ö and Ü in case that the real 
characters are not available (for example, using old typewriters, or the 
first 7-bit ASCII only computer displays). Today, with Unicode 
everywhere, there is no excuse for not using the Umlaute or all the 
other special characters.
This replacement rule is not related to the sort order rule. The German 
sorting order is given by this string:


ExemplarCharacters{"[a ä b-o ö p-s ß t u ü v-z]"}

found in 
http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu/trunk/source/data/locales/de.txt

For English it is not as complicated:

ExemplarCharacters{"[a-z]"}




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Re: [users] Sorting order

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Hi,

On 02/03/09 15:27, Séamas Ó Brógáin wrote:
I wonder if anyone can shed any light on the way in which Openoffice 
sorts items in alphabetical order.


Openoffice applies the “word-by-word” variant of alphabetical order, 
whereby spaces and certain punctuation marks are sorted before letters 
(so that, for example, New Haven comes before Newcastle), and I want to 
change this.


yes, Writer sorts paragraphs by comparing the characters one by one. To 
some extent, the sorting order that is defined by the rules of the given 
language is respected, too.
For example, in the German spelling bible called "Duden", the umlauts Ä. 
Ö, Ü are sorted as if they are just plain A, O, U characters. So 
OpenOffice.org Writer should sort paragraphs the same way, if you set 
the language of those paragraphs to German.


Of course you must be able to sort the next list of English or French 
paragraphs according to English or French language rules, etc., so it is 
not a matter of locale or OS settings.


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Re: [users] using OOo for newsletter - articles spanning parts of several pages.

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Web Kracked wrote:



Any one know, off hand, where the documentation is for
creating newsletter pages is?

I have been using Page Maker for a while and want to do the work with 
OOo.
The trouble is the dividing articles up to flow over several pages 
automatically

during the editing process.

i.e.
main article on left column of page one, where the over flow or most 
of the text
is on page 3 right hand column.  Think of a newspaper where the 
article continues
on page such and such.  Now add the fact that as you do some editing 
and text formatting,
the text will need to flow to the next part of the article without 
manual cut/paste.
All you will need to do is somehow select the bottom of the first part 
and then link it

to the top of the second part on page 3.

I really do not remember how to do this, since I use Page Maker for 
the newsletters.
Used it for 10 years(?) or so and never really went to OOo for that 
task.  I am so
use to that software, but have not upgraded beyond version 7, I think 
maybe it is time

to start using OpenOffice.org for that task.

So any help with where it is in the documentation and how to do the 
job as well?




yes, press F1 for Help, then enter "newspaper" or such.
It's called "linked frames".

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Re: [users] Disabling number to date conversion

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On 01/09/09 13:04, Dotan Cohen wrote:

2009/1/9 Uwe Fischer :

please have a look at the OpenOffice.org Tips 'n' Tricks blog. There are
some tips titled "Fighting Automatic Replacements in Calc".
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/fighting_automatic_replacements_in_calc



Thank you. The page you mention lists two possible workarounds:
1) prepend an apostrophe to numbers
2) Format each cell as text

Neither of these are acceptable as solutions.



well, these two workarounds are the only I know for Calc. For tables in 
Writer you can disable the automatic number recognition (Tools - Options 
- OOo Writer - Table), but not for Calc.


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Re: [users] Disabling number to date conversion

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Hi,

On 01/09/09 11:44, Dotan Cohen wrote:

In OOo 2.4 I managed to disable automatic number to date conversion. I
cannot for the life of me find out how in OOo 3.0, and from searching
the web it seems that this cannot be done?!?

I do _not_ want to create a default template. I want to configure Calc
so that I can open a document, enter "8.5" into a cell, and not have
it turned into a date or anything else. I repeat that for this use
case a new default template is _not_ the answer, and neither is
defining each cell as text.

Thanks.



please have a look at the OpenOffice.org Tips 'n' Tricks blog. There are 
some tips titled "Fighting Automatic Replacements in Calc".

http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/fighting_automatic_replacements_in_calc

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Re: [users] Re: Draw: perfectly straight line

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Hi,

On 12/23/08 02:14, NoOp wrote:

NoOp wrote:
I just tested with WinXP MSO 2002 and OOo 3.0 and I see what your friend
is talking about. On MSO, a diagonal line will appear jagged (stairstep
effect) in the draw box until the mouse is released. As soon as the
mouse is released the line appears perfectly smooth - even when viewed
at 500%. In OOo the line renders in stairstep (minor, but still
noticeable). That's on a .24pixel professional quality monitor and also
tested on a two other systems w/like monitors.


Well... not sure if it's actually cool or not. It would be really cool
if OOo rendered the line as MSO's draw does (crisp and clear with no
stairstep effect). But it does validate your friend's observation.

There may be a bug filed in OOo for this already, but searching the bug
database tends to be an art in itself. So, if you look for one be sure
to reserve some time to do so...



Currently the released versions of OOo cannot display graphics with 
anti-aliasing. But it is planned for OOo 3.1, see 
http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/drawing_layer/SolidDragging.odt
although it doesn't seem to be easy to add this feature to work on all 
hardware and software platforms.
Currently the jagged edges appear only on screen, so there should be no 
problem when printing. If you need a crisp looking screen display, 
export the file to PDF and view that PDF file on screen. PDF may also 
help when printing.


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Re: [users] Impress in Vista

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On 12/12/08 14:10, Joe Grech wrote:

In fact yes.  I sent a friend of mine a PP att and he told me that he cannot 
open them under Vista, he needs a new MS Office.  I recommended him Open Office 
which he download and liked it very much.  But when he tried to open PP it 
started OK but after a few seconds it stopped and asked for MS Office


Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:22:36 -0500
From: james.kn...@rogers.com
To: users@openoffice.org
Subject: Re: [users] Impress in Vista

Joe Grech wrote:

Does Impress open Power Point in Vista?  Are there any tricks to do it?? Tks
OpenOffice opens Power Point files on any operating system.  Are you 
having a specific problem?



If the PoperPoint file opens in OpenOffice.org, but after a few seconds 
it asks for MS Office, then it is possible that the PowerPoint document 
contains embedded objects from other MS Office programs, for example an 
Excel table.
If Excel is installed on the same computer, the document opens, but if 
Excel is not installed, the embedded object must be converted.


Your friend can try to open OOo, then choose "Tools - Options - 
Load/Save - VBA Properties". Then check all checkboxes.


This tells OOo to substitute all known embedded MS Office objects by its 
own objects. So the embedded Excel table would be converted to an 
embedded Calc table, and the presentation can start.


There may be a few embedded objects of MS types without corresponding 
OOo types, but in most cases the checking all the checkboxes trick 
should work.


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Re: [users] Hello!

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On 12/08/08 21:11, Nikolai Kunitsõn wrote:

Hello!
I have a problem with opfenoffice.org and I hope I get an answer.
I wrote one text in Openoffice.org in russian, I saved it, but when I opened
it again in a few days half of the text were in some weird symbols.
Like this:

5 мая было создано первое коалиционное правительство из министров-"
„{„p„Ѓ„y„„„p„|„y„ѓ„„„Ђ„r" „y „}„y„~„y„ѓ„„„‚„Ђ„r-„ѓ„Ђ„€„y„p„|„y„ѓ„„„Ђ„r
(„O„‚„|„Ђ„r 1997:434). 18 „y„ђ„~„' „~„p„‰„p„|„Ђ„ѓ„Ћ „ѓ „Ѓ„Ђ„}„Ђ„‹„ђ
„K„u„‚„u„~„ѓ„{„Ђ„s„Ђ „~„Ђ„r„Ђ„u

I would like to know, if it is possible to recover my text? I really hope it
is possible.
Best regards,



Hi Nikolai,

without seeing the odt document I can only guess what is the reason for 
this strange formatting. May be you did use another font for the bad 
formatted text? A font that cannot display Unicode or Russian encoded 
characters?


May be you can find some more help on one of the Russian language 
mailing lists at http://ru.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectMailingListList


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Re: [users] Can't save .odt with password

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Dennis Tibbetts wrote:

Help says just check the 'save with password' box on the 'save as' dialog box.  
My version 3.0.0 doesn't show a 'save with password'.

  
If you are using Vista, there is a known issue that this checkbox is not 
available. Use the OOo file dialogs until this gets fixed. (Choose Tools 
> Options >  OOo > General)


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Re: [users] Re: Section Header frustration

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Hi,

Jerry Clancy wrote:
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Had this trick been documented anywhere in the Section or Header help 
sections it would have saved me countless hours of frustration. 
Instead the sections allude only to Inserting or Editing sections.


I would have thought that you should be able to click in a section or 
highlight a series of pages and just double-click a different page 
style to change it but I was never able to do this successfully 
without changing both sections. Remember, I had existing text and 
sections. What I'd like to see in Help is a section entitiled 
"Changing Page Styles for Text".


One other thing I forgot: Per the Help on "Inserting Sections," you 
should be able to highlight text, do Insert Section and select a 
different but existing page style. You can't do this. It insists that 
a new style be created.


I also wonder, in hindsight, if I went about this backwards because of 
my MSO experience, namely, I approached from the Section first 
(because this is where headers are in MSO) rather than Headers. I 
never tried turning off a section header and then doing an Insert 
Header, picking one of the submenu page styles. Might have worked.




thank you for your hints how to improve the application help.
The help has a page called "Defining Different Headers and Footers". You 
can find that page from the Index entry "page styles; changing".
There are no links from the OOo "sections" help pages to the topic of 
page styles, because the OOo sections are very different from the 
Microsoft Word sections - OOo sections do not affect page styles, 
headers and footers at all.
If you look at the help index "Microsoft Office" you find some help 
pages titled "Comparing Microsoft Office and OOo Terms" and "Using 
Microsoft Office and OOo", to name just two of the pages.
The help page named "Inserting Sections" has no information about page 
styles. Please tell us where you found that misleading information so we 
can change that.


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Re: [users] Porque no funciona el Open Office

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Hi,

please have a look at 
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Installation/How_do_I_install_OpenOffice.org_on_Windows%3F 



If you cannot download OOo due to a slow connection, you can order a CD 
from http://distribution.openoffice.org/cdrom/index.html#cdrom


Uwe


marianella gonzalo castro wrote:

Hi Mr. Harold Fuchs,
 
I am sorry I didn't know was an English language list. I am going to try to explain you in English even though my English writing is not that good since I am from Costa Rica.

I downloaded Open Office in my computer, and it took very long, but when I opened it, it 
said "This folder is empty". I don't know what else I need to do to make it 
work. I hope you can help me. Thank you very much. I appreciate a lot your replay and 
your help.
 
Thanks again. Have a good day!
Marianella 


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Fecha: miércoles, 19 noviembre, 2008, 1:06 am





2008/11/18 marianella gonzalo castro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Hola, instale el Open Office pero al abrirlo dice THIS FOLDER IS EMPTY. No se 
porque dice que esta vacio. Que debo hacer para poder hacer uso del servicio.
Hace un tiempo lo habia instalado en la otra computadora y funciono 
perfectamente pero por otros motivos mi computadora se daño y al instalarlo en 
la nueva computadora no me funciona.
Espero me puedan ayudar, lo necesito para trabajar en mi casa.
Muchas gracias
 
Marianella M.




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Re: [users] Re: turn off formatting popup

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On 11/16/08 07:35, Brian Barker wrote:

At 12:55 15/11/2008 -0800, Gary Noop wrote:

On 11/14/2008 09:17 PM, Brian Barker wrote 7 times:
[snip]
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker

Ironic... Brian's post came through (popped up) 7 times; ...


For the avoidance of doubt, I didn't actually write seven times, of 
course: as can be seen from a detailed look at the headers, I wrote and 
sent once but the list processor became embarrassingly over-generous in 
its distribution!  I was relieved that it stopped after seven.



... perhaps we need to dock Brian to the toolbar as well? :-)


;^)

Brian Barker (who is hoping not to see seven of this!)



A permanently docked Brian Barker response box would be indeed a very 
welcome extension, given the excellent quality of Brian's answers!


:-)

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Re: [users] Re: Creating scientific posters in OOo - best practice

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On 11/13/08 13:29, Graham Smith wrote:

As others have pointed out - use Draw. This might be of interest:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_3.0_Feature_List
[see:  Maximum Page Size Enlarged for Draw (300cm x 300cm)]


3m x 3m sounds interesting :-)



You can see a Draw image of 3x3 meters here: 
http://picasaweb.google.com/forestcheng/OOoCon2008#5267369429950713154
That was made at the very successful OpenOffice.org Conference 2008 in 
Beijing.

You can tell Draw to tile the image according to your paper size, of course.

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Re: [users] Base and remote mysql timeouts

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On 11/07/08 18:13, Keith Clark wrote:

My remote mysql server is set to disconnect every 10 minutes of inactivity
and I was wondering if there is a way to have Base communicate every say 5
minutes with the remote server in order to keep it active?



Hi,

you may try to choose Tools > Options > OOo Base > Connections and 
enable pooling for your database connection.


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Re: [users] Install directories - 3.0

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On 11/08/08 15:53, Saleem EDAH-TALLY wrote:

Hello,

Versions prior to OOO 3.0 had standard OS-independant installation directories.

This has much changed since 3.0 :

On Win, it seems to be constantly installed in \\program files\openoffice.org 
3.0\

On Linux, it's installed in /opt/openoffice.org AND in /opt/openoffice.org3

Question : does any one know if this is a constant that will prevail through 
time ? Or would the installation directories become OS-independant ?




Hi,

you can find more information about this at the OOo Wiki:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/Packaging_Modularization 



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Re: [users] Place text inside frame

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On 11/01/08 06:57, John Jason Jordan wrote:
This is so stupid. 


I have created a frame. I see a paragraph mark inside the frame (hidden
characters is turned on). But for the life of me I cannot get the
cursor inside the frame so I can type some text into it. 


I can't find the answer in the Help file. What is the secret?


may be this helps with the different types of text boxes in Writer:
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/text_boxes_in_writer_documents

To improve the Help: how would you search for Help on this topic? What 
index entries would you like to look up? We will happily insert them for 
the next 3.1 Help.


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Re: [users] Re: Toolbar question

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On 10/30/08 19:15, NoOp wrote:

On 10/30/2008 06:40 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote:

Hi,

Zoltán Kócsi wrote:

...
My problem is *not* that the toolbar is there. My problem is that it
does not *stay* there. In other words, I want a static layout. I have
documents that are full of tables. I move in and out of tables all the
...
OK, this is what I did to dock the Table toolbar in Writer, just below 
the Formatting toolbar, so that the document size does not change 
whether the cursor is inside a table or not:

1. Have a document with a table inside.
2. Set the cursor inside the table.
3. Table toolbar should be visible (if not, enable it using View-Toolbars).
4. Dock the Table toolbar just below the Formatting toolbar.
5. Create a new empty toolbar and drag it to a place just left or right 
of the Table toolbar, in the same "row".
Now the empty toolbar reserves the "row" whenever the Table toolbar 
vanishes, and the Table toolbar will fill in its old docked place when 
it reappears.


Hope this helps.
Uwe



Why not just dock it & then drag it to the formating or standard toolbar?




that is a fine solution, and I should have mentioned it first. Then you 
do not need an empty toolbar as placeholder.
But screen width must be wide enough, else you would need to scroll the 
toolbar, which would be very uncomfortable.


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Re: [users] Toolbar question

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Hi,

Zoltán Kócsi wrote:

...
My problem is *not* that the toolbar is there. My problem is that it
does not *stay* there. In other words, I want a static layout. I have
documents that are full of tables. I move in and out of tables all the
...


OK, this is what I did to dock the Table toolbar in Writer, just below 
the Formatting toolbar, so that the document size does not change 
whether the cursor is inside a table or not:

1. Have a document with a table inside.
2. Set the cursor inside the table.
3. Table toolbar should be visible (if not, enable it using View-Toolbars).
4. Dock the Table toolbar just below the Formatting toolbar.
5. Create a new empty toolbar and drag it to a place just left or right 
of the Table toolbar, in the same "row".
Now the empty toolbar reserves the "row" whenever the Table toolbar 
vanishes, and the Table toolbar will fill in its old docked place when 
it reappears.


Hope this helps.
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Re: [users] Toolbar question

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On 10/28/08 23:34, Barbara Duprey wrote:

Zoltán Kócsi wrote:

I have an ancient OOo and I thought it might be time to update to the
3.0 version. However, I do not want to update to a version where
toolbars are popping up and disappearing depending on the context;
that's one of the main reasons I skipped the 2.x series.


Although I agree with you that these toolbars are distracting, I've 
killed them in my 2.4.1 (and earlier) OOo versions. The trick is that 
*while one is displayed* you go into View > Toolbars, find it, and 
uncheck it. Then it won't come back uninvited!




that's right.
You can find some more info in the OpenOffice.org Tips 'n' Tricks Blog 
at http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/now_you_see_it_now


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Re: [users] Re: Open Office 3 Crashing and no spell check!

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On 10/15/08 15:22, Richard wrote:


This is getting worse, it states:

Adding More Text Languages

1.In OpenOffice.org software, you can choose File - Wizards - Install 
new dictionaries to open a Writer document which helps you to install 
more languages.


This does not f*g exist!!!




for OpenOffice.org 3, you can install additional spellcheck modules as 
extensions. Choose Tools - Extension Manager and click the link to get 
more extensions, or open your browser to show the f*g page 
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/dictionary !!!

Hope you understand this ;-)

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Re: [users] Re: OOo and version control (svn)

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On 10/10/08 17:04, H.S. wrote:

Uwe Fischer wrote:

Hello,

On 10/10/08 06:35, H.S. wrote:

Does anyone have any experience with using openoffice.org with svn
(subversion)? In other words, has anyone used svn to collaborate with
other people while writing a joint OOo document?


very soon there will be a lot of experience:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOo_and_Subversion

Uwe


That page, as I understand it, describes that the source of ooo is being
moved to svn. In other words, the developers can collaborate on the
source development of OOo project. That is not what I meant.

I wanted to know if an OOo document (e.g. a Writer .odt document) can be
hosted on svn so that multiple authors can collaborate at the same time.



the normal odt documents are zipped files, so they look like a binary 
file to the outside world. Without additional scripts it would not be 
possible to use them directly in a text line based repository. Only the 
whole files, but that's certainly not what you want.


For the help source files, we use an XSLT filter to import and export 
them in an XML format. That works fine line by line in a CVS system. The 
system holds the XML files, and they get opened, edited and saved from 
OOo. Should be possible with odt also, using an appropriate filter that 
extracts and saves plain XML text with proper linefeeds and tags.


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Re: [users] OOo and version control (svn)

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Hello,

On 10/10/08 06:35, H.S. wrote:

Does anyone have any experience with using openoffice.org with svn
(subversion)? In other words, has anyone used svn to collaborate with
other people while writing a joint OOo document?



very soon there will be a lot of experience:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/OOo_and_Subversion

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Re: [users] Re: openoffice 3.0 rc2 installation problem from rc1 solved

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

On 09/22/08 23:37, Spiderman wrote:

...
O.k. Now I found a new version of the wikipedia article in which I 
found the information a couple of months ago. Thunderbird will be 
added later to openoffice of some reasons. Hope it gets at least in 
openoffice 4.0.


I'm quite sure there are millions of users of OOo and StarOffice who use 
Thunderbird and Lightning right now. No need to wait for OOo 4.0

:-)

See this blog for some thoughts about sending emails from OOo: 
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/sending_your_document_as_e


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Re: [users] Calc: external document cell reference

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Hi,

On 08/29/08 15:36, Sorin Schwimmer wrote:

I am trying to refer a cell in an external document. I tried the following 
syntax:
='file:///path/to/doc.ods'#$Sheet1.$E$15
but I end up with
#NAME?



the installed Help has an index entry about "references; to cells in 
another document"
According to that help page, your reference looks right. Tried it on a 
file of my own and it worked well, using your syntax.


May be you renamed Sheet1 to another name? Then state that name in the 
formula.


May be the source document was not saved or the saved version of the 
source document doesn't have such a sheet name?


Also try to open both documents side by side, then drag and drop the 
cell from one document to the other. Press down Shift+Ctrl when you 
release the mouse button. Now you see the DDE function. Either you can 
use that function as it is, or at least you can see the exact syntax of 
the file name reference.


Please answer only to the list.

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Re: [users] How to split a writer document?

[Uwe Fischer]

Ely Schoenfeld wrote:

I've found some people asking about how to join/combine documents, but my
case is the opposite. I haven't been able to find any information about
this.

I have my Thesis work in only one document. The university's library is
asking me to give them an electronic version with each chapter in a
different file. (Both odt and pdf format)
  

please try a master document.
Open the File - Send menu, then point to Create Master  Document. Press 
F1 to read some help about this command.

May be this solves the page number problem, too.

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Re: [users] Re: OOo 3 page question

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

On 08/15/08 06:35, Russell Butler wrote:

jonathon wrote:

Will  OOo 3.0 have the same 300 mm page size limitation that 2.4 has?

Hi Jonathon

I just tried formatting a page to "User" in my version of DEV300 m25 
build 9330 (Linux) and it accepted a page 100x100 cm, I didn't try going 
larger, but no indication of a limit




this got fixed in dev300_m19, see 
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81809


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Re: [users] Illegaly selling of "OpenOffice"- Produkts !

[Uwe Fischer]

Hallo,

Markus Muellges wrote:

Hallo, (sorry my english isn?d very well)


there are German user groups, too. See de.openoffice.org.



on Date: 2008/07/19 I was seaching for "Open Office" to download the 
programm. Befor the download begins, they asked for my adress and mail- 
adress. Today (2008/08/06) I got a mail from a Group called: 
Mega-Downloads.net and the want 96,€  for this download and for being 1 
jear in this group. I don?d think that your organisation "Open Office" 
want, that any other people sell your produkt. I please you to sent me a 
mail ore a letter, an write inside that "Open Office" dont want this ! 
Because I better go to the goverdement an show whou this people work 
illegaly.


sad to read about this. Enter the name of that company into your 
favorite search machine and you'll find thousands of other users 
complaining.
Next time download from www.openoffice.org. The German version from 
de.openoffice.org. It's free to download.



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Re: [users] beta-2 crashes when closing Help window

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Hi,

Guy Voets wrote:

I have the beta-2 version (Aqua for Mac) installed on my iMac.
It crashes almost every time I close the Help window.
I made an issue, but an not sure it's OK like this:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=92276

  
your issue looks formally 100% correct. Thank you for submitting this. 


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Re: [users] OOo equivalent of Block Protect

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Hi,

Jonathan Kaye wrote:

Hi all,
Way back in the old days, WordPerfect had a feature called "block protect".
You highlighted a number of lines and then applied block protect and the
protected text could not be separated by a page break. The whole block
would be moved to the following page rather than breaking up the block.
Does Openoffice have a way of doing the same thing?
Cheers,
Jonathan


Writer has two options to control the text flow on a paragraph level.
Select the text that should be block protected, right-click in the 
selected text, choose Paragraph. Click the Text Flow tab.

Check "Do not split paragraph" and/or "Keep with next paragraph".

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Re: [users] Printing from Spreadsheet

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Hi,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Thank you this.  The method you suggested worked fine.  I had just, under 
Format>Page, to deselect grids (not to get a section of grid printed alongside 
the chart) and to centre it horizontally.  On this occasion, it did show what I 
wanted under Page Preview.  Curiously, what ever I did previously it did not do 
this.  It showed either the chart I printed successfully some time ago (which is 
in the same file), a section of grid, or nothing but the page and sheet numbers.  
Perhaps I had blocked printing by trying to define a print range.

I was interested to note that there has been a recent change in the handling of 
print ranges.


well, the recent change was not so recent as I thought: 
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00054.html

almost a year ago. How time flies ...

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Re: [users] Printing from Spreadsheet

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Hi,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Thank you for your response Uwe.

I'm using OpenOffice.org version 2.4 and I have tried reinstalling it.
My operating system is Windows XP sp3.
I can print from Calk spreadsheet, but I can't seem to find a way of defining 
the print range for just the chart which will then appear in Print Preview, and 
then print as just that chart on a single page.
I tried using Format>Print etc to set the range and also Format>Page where I 
unchecked everything except Chart.
Previously I have achieved what I set out to do this time.  I don't remember 
how I did it except that, although I didn't find it intuitive, it didn't take 
as long as I have been trying this time.
I also note that when I was successful, I was using the former version (one 
immediately before 2.4).  I'm trying to find a copy of the previous version of 
OpenOffice to install in place of 2.4 but so far am unsuccessful.



if you want to print only the chart, nothing else, do the following:

1. Click the chart once, so it has eight green handles.
2. Press Ctrl+C to copy the chart
3. Click an unused sheet tab or create a new sheet and switch to that sheet.
4. Press Ctrl+V to paste the chart
5. Print only the sheet with the chart on it.

For some spreadsheets there might exist print ranges. The handling of 
print ranges got changed lately. If the above method with the otherwise 
empty sheet does not work for you, a defined print range may block 
printing. In this case it might be best to open a new Writer or Draw doc 
amd paste the chart into that doc for printing.


Uwe


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  Hi,

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  > Hi,
  > 
  > I urgently need to print a chart from and Open Office Calc spreadsheet.  I've done it before but don't know how.  I've spent a couple of hours trying and have not been helped by the "help function".
  > 


  please give some more information.
  Which version of OpenOffice.org do you use?
  On which operating system?
  Can you print the other contents from that Calc spreadsheet?
  Only the chart does not appear?
  If this is true, open the Calc help (press F1), and on the Index tab 
  page of the Help, enter "charts;printing" to find some help about 
  printing charts. Someone might have excluded charts from being printed.


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Re: [users] Printing from Spreadsheet

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Hi,

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi,

I urgently need to print a chart from and Open Office Calc spreadsheet.  I've done it 
before but don't know how.  I've spent a couple of hours trying and have not been helped 
by the "help function".



please give some more information.
Which version of OpenOffice.org do you use?
On which operating system?
Can you print the other contents from that Calc spreadsheet?
Only the chart does not appear?
If this is true, open the Calc help (press F1), and on the Index tab 
page of the Help, enter "charts;printing" to find some help about 
printing charts. Someone might have excluded charts from being printed.


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Re: [users] Columns deficiency? [Was: Newspaper style -- brain cramp ??]

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

Michael Adams wrote:

John Kaufmann wrote:



I do not think that page styles should be used as layout tools, for
that purpose a template is much more appropriate IMHO.

Agreed, I think.  A page (a physical entity) *does* have certain
inherent characteristics (like margins, header/footer, ...) which are
layout issues. 
  The content/data on the page - whether presented in columns, tables,
  
paragraphs, or whatever, is not of that order.  It seems that if we

don't keep those orders separate, OO will not be well positioned to
adapt the presentation of content to different media.


It could give us warm fuzzies to think that for those that want pages
set just so - they can, and for those who want sections or frames set
just so - they can as well. ;)



I've written some thoughts about columns in Writer pages in the 
OpenOffice.org Tips 'n' Tricks blog: 
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/text_in_columns


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Re: [users] What's going on ?

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Manfred J. Krause wrote:

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Alberto Muller wrote:

Hello all, I've been using this mailing list for 3 or 4 months thinking that
its main purpose is to help people joining the OO community to learn how to
use Open Office. Instead, I have seen endless rants and pointless
discussions about matters that have nothing to do with helping people with
OO. I'm just citing a few items : Top posting vs Bottom posting (please stop
it), OO needs an e-mail client (going on forever); download time for OO
(went immediately off track and landed to the American Constitution and the
size of gold coins at the actual rates). Do we want to go on like that or
shall we finally go back th the main purpose of the mailing list ? Helping
people with Open Office, nothing else, and leave the rest to the
philosophers. Personally I will unsubscribe from the list if the current
trend continues. Best regards. Alberto Muller


Essentially you've a point ...
+1

Manfred


+1, and a pointer to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail list, where 
discussions are welcome.


Here's a list of some of the many mail lists at openoffice.org:
http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html

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Re: [users] Auto-correct & N-dashes

[Uwe Fischer]

May be you still did not read the Help?
It clearly states: "Text will be replaced after you type a trailing 
white space (space, tab, or return)."


Uwe

thomas steel wrote:

My problem is now this: If I type two hyphens & then Enter, an N-dash
appears. But if any other text is entered on that line, the dash reverts to
double hyphens. This occurs if I enter Replace - with --, or -- with -- in
autocorrect. The solution must be close. Please can you advise? TS

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thomas steel wrote:
Dear Jim: Thanks, but I've done exectly what you said & got nowhere. 
I have 'Replace dashes' ticked & I have duly entered the "-" and 
"--", but I still just get a hyphen. Any idea why?


No idea at all. This method of creating a dash has been in 
OpenOffice.org as long as I’ve been using it, since 1.1 in fact and 
similar techniques are part of Microsoft Word and Word Perfect. I 
recall them occurring in other Word Processors also.


If you type a word, two normal hyphens, and then another word 
following, the two hyphens, after about a tenth of a second the 
hyphens change into an em-dash, that is from “was made--about 
yesterday” becomes “was made–about yesterday”. If you leave spaces 
around the hyphens you get “was made -- about yesterday” becoming was 
made — about yesterday” with an en-dash instead.


The full specification of this hyphen behavior can be found in Help 
under “AutoCorrect function”, subentry “options”. Note this doesn’t 
work when typing hyphens between symbols such as ¦ and @. You must use 
letters or digits, though this includes letters and digits outside of 
the ASCII range.


Just be sure the entry is checked in at least the “M” column under 
Tools -> Autocorrect... -> Options. Check that the other options also 
work (or inexplicably don’t work also). I don’t know of any way of 
turning off or on any of these items other than removing the check 
mark in this single window. So there isn’t, so far as I know, any 
secret override.


You might try rebooting of course.

You can at any rate find the en-dash in most modern fonts in the 
“Insert special character window”. It is the Unicode character U+2013 
near the beginning of the “General Punctuation” section, right before 
the em-dash and quotation-dash along with quotation marks and other 
non-ASCII punctuation.


Dashes can also be achieved on most machines through some sort of 
standard method of getting special characters. On Windows, with 
Num-Lock on, you press the left-Alt key and keep it pressed while 
typing 0150 on the numeric keypad. The code 0151 produces the em-dash 
instead. This works with almost any program. Other operating systems 
have other standard methods.


Or you can a keyboard editor. Minimal and very useful keyboard editors 
are available at no cost for most operating systems.


But you really shouldn’t need this when OpenOffice provides a 
reasonable way of doing getting an en-dash.


Jim Allan







Replace Dashes

Replaces one or two hyphens with a long dash (see the following table).
Text will be replaced after you type a trailing white space (space, 
tab, or return). In the following table, the A and B represent text 
consisting of letters A to z or digits 0 to 9.

Text that you type:
Result that you get:
A - B (A, space, minus, space, B)
A – B (A, space, en-dash, space, B)
A -- B (A, space, minus, minus, space, B)
A – B (A, space, en-dash, space, B)
A--B (A, minus, minus, B)
A—B (A, em-dash, B)
(see note below the table)
A-B (A, minus, B)
A-B (unchanged)
A -B (A, space, minus, B)
A -B (unchanged)
A --B (A, space, minus, minus, B)
A –B (A, space, en-dash, B)


If the text has the Hungarian or Finnish language attribute, then two 
hyphens in the sequence A--B are replaced by an en-dash instead of an 
em-dash.





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Re: [users] mails auf deutsch

[Uwe Fischer]

Robert Senn wrote:
danke für ihre nachricht. Ihre empfohlene seite hab ich studiert herr 
thomas und ist auf der ersten seite deutsch und dann ist auf der 
zweiten seite  wieder englisch und ist wie sie sagten nichts zu 
ändern. kann nicht verstehen ein produkt wie open office org in der 
ganzen welt zu vertreiben ohne meine eigene landessprache 
einzustellen.trotzdem vielen dank


German language mail lists:
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German language OpenOffice.org home page:
http://de.openoffice.org/

HTH
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Re: [users] From OpenOffice 2.2 to OpenOffice 2.4 AFTER INSTALLING NOTHING WORKS, NOT the NEW version AND not the OLD version URGENT!!!!!!!!!!

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

Koen Pelgrims wrote:

Up untill this morning I was a very happy OpenOffice 2.2 user, but after a 
full day of trying to install the OpenOffice 2.4 on my home computer I am 
getting frustrated because not only the new version doesn't work but also my 
older 2.2 version doesn't work any more. THIS IS AN URGENT PROBLEM because I 
use them daily and they represent probably about 80% of my computer use.

I started out by downloading the OpenOffice 2.4 (the dutch version) program from your www.OpenOffice.org website. The downloading and the Instalation wizard seemed to do their work just fine on my computer that still runs with the Windows XP operating system. Unfortunately when I wanted to start using the OpenOffice 2.4 programs by dubbel clicking the Icons nothing from OpenOffice worked. I tried redoing it by using your setup.exe file but with the same result. Then I tryed it again by using the Windows Installer pakket yet with the same unfortunate result. 

Uninstalling and delleting everything I had on my computer from OpenOffice from any of the two versions, including all the starting icons, in the hope as to eliminate any possible conflict for a new attempt to download and install the OpenOffice 2.4 again did not help either. 



sorry to read about your problem. There is a small possibility that 
upgrading from 2.2 direct to 2.4 can be challenging to the OOo user 
configuration folder.

Try the following:
1. Close OOo if it is running (also check the Quickstarter icon at the 
right of the Windows Taskbar and exit the Quickstarter)
2. Delete the user folder. On XP it is C:\Documents und 
Settings\your_name\Application data\OpenOffice.org(Number)\user
You may have to enable showing hidden files - see the blog 
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/starting_over_with_a_clean for 
details. You may have to replace the path names by the localized names 
if you use another version of Windows XP than the English one.

3. Try to start OOo 2.4 again.

Hope this helps
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Re: [users] Re: OOo needs an email client, Pegasus needs a sponsor and a text editing component

[Uwe Fischer]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

They _can_ use any email client they want, but they don't know that.
All they know is that OOo replaces MSO, and that OOo has no email
client. Note that I personally don't want OOo to include an email
client, but users don't know that they can get email clients
seperatly, or that email clients even exist! They only know that in
MSO they could do X (where X==email), and in OOo they cannot.



I never could imagine that such users exist, who feel cut off from their 
email just because of OOo. Thanks for shining some light on this problem.


So would it be a valid approach to bundle a free and open email client 
with OOo? On the same media, in the same download file set?


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Re: [users] Re: OOXML

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

Harold Fuchs wrote:

On 15/04/2008, Ganesha Bhaskara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




Ganesha, Do you really mean Import & Export a'la PDF; or do you mean

Open & Save.


Open and Save . check out pre-beta version of OO 3.0.



I've read stuff that *suggests* that OOo 3.0 will be able to read .docx etc.
files but *not* save them. Is this true or have I been reading the wrong
stuff?  Would someone point me at some sort of official feature list,
please?


a feature list of planned features for 3.0 is here:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Features#Planned_Features_for_3.0_Release
There you can read that only import filters are planned for the OOXML 
formats, which makes sense because OOo saves already in an open ISO 
standard format ;-)


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Re: [users] A question about the links on Open Office

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Hi,

Kathy Fronton wrote:

Hello,

I have a question concerning open office impress 2.0.4, i'd like to know 
how can i put a link on an icon to say "back to the last view". 
Actually, i want to know if it's possible to put this line of 
programmation language or computer code (i don't know what is the word 
in english) : .

Thank you in advance for your help.


if you really want to program Impress you should ask at the developer 
mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - see 
http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html


if you just want to know how to add an interaction to an object on a 
slide, this is how to do that:


Right-click the object on the slide,
choose Interaction,
select "Go to previous slide"

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Re: [users] TOC entries and links

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

Twayne wrote:

 Hi,

OOo 2.4.0 on XP Pro SP2+:

This one is probably my own fault but I haven't done anything knowingly 
to cause it.  I recently switched from 2.3 to 2.4 so I'm not sure 
whether it ever worked in the 2.4 version I have.


Problem:
TOC does not include links to the page they reference.

Tried:
Help, and the LE/ES (or whatever it was) settings and clicking to 
set ALL.  Followed instructions as perfectly as I could; no help, so it 
would appear I'm missing something.



You can apply the LS (Link Start) and LE (Link End) entries to the TOC 
levels 1 to 10. There is no "ALL" entry.

If you see an ALL entry in the Levels box, something is messed up.



1.  HOW do I get the TOC to include links?
   Please, don't just copy the Help paragraphs here; I've read them over 
and over without getting the links to work.  Layman's terms please? 
Some of that Help is a little confusing so I'm probably misnterpreting 
something.  I'm not new to Word or to Writer so you needn't assume I'm a 
complete newbie either.



please explain what confuses you, so we can find a better help text.




And, these further questions arose from that effort:

2.  Is there a way to RESET *everything* in Writer,  or even the entire 
OOo?  Remove/reinstall doesn't seem to accomplish that.
Either would be OK with me as I still have 2.3 installed and 
functional.  I'm just getting 2.4 set up so don't mind starting over 
from scratch.  Oh, and yes, I removed 2.3 also when I reinstalled 2.4, 
just in case there was something clnflicting.




please see the OpenOffice.org Tips 'n' Tricks blog entry "Starting over 
with a clean installation" 
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/starting_over_with_a_clean

There you find steps and an explanation.

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Re: [users] [moderated]Updated version OOo 2.4.0 Registration *Again*?

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

Harold Fuchs wrote:

On 10/04/2008 12:43, Serge FOUCHE wrote:
Second, why there is no software to coordinate my calendar "Lightning" 
(thundrbird) with a PDA  or Smartphone


OpenOffice.org is not responsible for Thunderbird or Lightning. These 
are products of the Mozilla Foundation. You'll need to ask in one of its 
support forums: www.mozilla.org


that's right in some way, but then, there is some more, see this link: 
http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/a_pim_for_openoffice_org


So it is a valid response to all users who ask for an e-mail or calendar 
module in OpenOffice.org to send them to Thunderbird and Lightning.
Thunderbird and OOo are different programs? Not more than Word, Excel, 
and Outlook are different programs.


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Re: [users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

Scott Meyers wrote:
...

and replace it with a different character style.  My sense is that the 
best you can do if you want to modify character style X that's been 
applied is:


  1.  Create a new style Y that you want to use to replace X.
  2.  Manually go through your document looking for places where 
characters have had style X applied.  Change the text to the default, 
then apply style Y.

  3.  Delete style X and hope you didn't miss anything in step 2.

Am I overlooking a better approach?



you can search and replace styles in the Find & Replace dialog. Click 
More Options, then check Search for Styles checkbox.


To add a style that changes text color to Red,
1. Press F11 for Styles & Formatting window
2. Click the Character Styles icon
3. Right-click the Default style and choose New
4. Enter "Red" or something as a name
5. Go to Font Effects tab and select red color.
6. Click OK.
7. See the new Red style in the list.
8. Select the text that should be painted with the Red style.
9. Double-click the Red entry in Styles & Formatting window.

Looks difficult at first sight, but once you get it it is really easy.

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Re: [users] Improve picture handling in writer

[Uwe Fischer]

Hi,

mike scott wrote:
Don't hold the shift key down! If you grab a side, only the width 
will change; grab top or bottom, only the height will change; grab a 
corner and change both at once.


in addition, it is not necessary to first know whether you need to hold 
down a key or not, when you drag with the mouse.


You can just start resizing the image with the mouse. If you see that it 
resizes proportionally while you wanted it non-prportionally or the 
other way round, just keep pressing the mouse button, don't release it, 
and press the Shift key, too.


Only when you release the mouse button then the software looks if there 
is an additional key held down or not and acts accordingly. This is the 
same for moving/copying/creating a link by dragging files or objects.


This is so intuitive and easy and cool that I would not want this to be 
changed.


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Re: [users] [moderated]email program

[Uwe Fischer]

Lorenz Pless wrote:

I just downloaded your  office but can not find a program like MS outlook?

Did I miss it?



if you allow a small joke:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html

“Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs 
which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”


So just wait. Or install Thunderbird right now.

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