Re: [users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug?
Hi there is a work around just take back the default margins to 0 (zero)say yes to the non print warning set your margins on the active page you can try this I dont know how it prints Thanks, Stewart. I knew about the workaround, but I wanted to know if this was intentional behaviour or a programming error. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com Please CC me if you want to be sure that I read your message. I do not read all list mail. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug?
I use View Web Layout. I leave my margins alone. It's a nice simple environment. On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:44 PM, Stewart stewartha...@cogeco.ca wrote: On 09/03/2010 2:15 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: When setting the Page background colour in Writer, the area in the margins remains white. Is this a feature (as a printed document would presumably not be printed there) or a bug (as the user is formatting the Page, not the currently active widget). Thanks. Hi there is a work around just take back the default margins to 0 (zero)say yes to the non print warning set your margins on the active page you can try this I dont know how it prints Stewart - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
RE: [users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug?
Please urgently stop all e-mails to my computer . I have send a lot of mails asking to stop this immediately. -Original Message- From: Guy Voets [mailto:nimant...@gmail.com] Sent: 09 March 2010 12:44 PM To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Dotan Cohen Subject: Re: [users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug? 2010/3/9 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: When setting the Page background colour in Writer, the area in the margins remains white. Is this a feature (as a printed document would presumably not be printed there) or a bug (as the user is formatting the Page, not the currently active widget). Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen Hello Dotan, Feature and bug sometimes come very close to each other. I solve it as follows: When I want a coloured background for a document to be used in mail or web, I set all margins to 0 (page style) I choose the background colour (page style) I determine a border (can be same colour as background) and use the 'distance to content' to use instead of the margins (still in the same page style) or I use a paragraph style that determines indents (to replace margins), but that doesn't work as it should with lists (enumeration goes through the right side indent). HTH -- Guy using dutch OOo 3.2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Snow Leopard and brazilian OOo 3.2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug?
Sorry, everyone. I broke the first rule of list membership and didn't see that Guy had already answered the OP. //J - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug?
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org How come many people know how to subscribe, but are unable to follow a simple procedure to unsubscribe? Is being subscribed to a list so debilitating? So: 1. send an empty mail to the unsubscribe address. Send this mail from the email address where you receive the mails from this list (payrollex...@gmail.com). 2. reply to the mail that is send to you to confirm your unsubscription. -- Guy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug?
Hi Payrollexcel: No-one on this list can do this. We're all just ordinary users like you. You will have to send an email message from your account, payrollexc...@gmail.com to users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org Subject and message can be empty. //James Please urgently stop all e-mails to my computer . I have send a lot of mails asking to stop this immediately. -Original Message- From: Guy Voets [mailto:nimant...@gmail.com] Sent: 09 March 2010 12:44 PM To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Dotan Cohen Subject: Re: [users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug? 2010/3/9 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: When setting the Page background colour in Writer, the area in the margins remains white. Is this a feature (as a printed document would presumably not be printed there) or a bug (as the user is formatting the Page, not the currently active widget). Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen Hello Dotan, Feature and bug sometimes come very close to each other. I solve it as follows: When I want a coloured background for a document to be used in mail or web, • I set all margins to 0 (page style) • I choose the background colour (page style) • I determine a border (can be same colour as background) and use the 'distance to content' to use instead of the margins (still in the same page style) or • I use a paragraph style that determines indents (to replace margins), but that doesn't work as it should with lists (enumeration goes through the right side indent). HTH -- Guy using dutch OOo 3.2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Snow Leopard and brazilian OOo 3.2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Writer page background colour: feature or bug?
2010/3/9 Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com: When setting the Page background colour in Writer, the area in the margins remains white. Is this a feature (as a printed document would presumably not be printed there) or a bug (as the user is formatting the Page, not the currently active widget). Thanks. -- Dotan Cohen Hello Dotan, Feature and bug sometimes come very close to each other. I solve it as follows: When I want a coloured background for a document to be used in mail or web, • I set all margins to 0 (page style) • I choose the background colour (page style) • I determine a border (can be same colour as background) and use the 'distance to content' to use instead of the margins (still in the same page style) or • I use a paragraph style that determines indents (to replace margins), but that doesn't work as it should with lists (enumeration goes through the right side indent). HTH -- Guy using dutch OOo 3.2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Snow Leopard and brazilian OOo 3.2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
