Re: [discuss] Improvements to the program

2010-04-07 Thread Mike Scott
Michael Scheff wrote: Open Office Writer has imitated some of the worst features of Microsoft Word '97 formatting. Two examples: 1. Location of Page Numbers. After trying just about everything I could think of, I still found it impossible to put page numbers in the upper right corner of a

Re: [discuss] Improvements to the program

2010-04-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Michael Scheff wrote: Open Office Writer has imitated some of the worst features of Microsoft Word '97 formatting. Two examples: 1. Location of Page Numbers. After trying just about everything I could think of, I still found it impossible to put page numbers in the upper right corner of a

Re: [discuss] Improvements to the program

2010-04-07 Thread Tony Pursell
On 6 Apr 2010 at 22:16, Michael Scheff wrote: 2. Automatic Paragraph Numbering. The default for automatic paragraph numbering is single spacing. The result might look like this. 1. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

Re: [discuss] Improvements to the program

2010-04-07 Thread John W Kennedy
On Apr 7, 2010, at 12:28 PM, Tony Pursell wrote: On 6 Apr 2010 at 22:16, Michael Scheff wrote: 2. Automatic Paragraph Numbering. The default for automatic paragraph numbering is single spacing. The result might look like this. 1. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

[discuss] Special Characters

2010-04-07 Thread Thibault Holcombe
I love openoffice but the biggest flaw for me is not being able to creat shortcuts for special characters like in Word. I am forced to use word for that reason when I write papers in different languages. I hope you guys can change that and let me know when you do! thx!

[discuss] PDF's

2010-04-07 Thread Erik Telman
Hello, I use your program since 1.4 our something like that, and I really like what you've done. Since I use it for school reasons again I more and more use the converte to PDF button. Now there's is a function I hoped to find in OOo 3.2 and that would be to view the PDF file I created. Sinde

Re: [discuss] PDF's

2010-04-07 Thread mike moller
Foxit Reader is a useful alternative to Acrobat Reader -- Mike Moller Lallybroch Alpacas New Zealand www.lallybroch.co.nz On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Erik Telman j.h.telma...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I use your program since 1.4 our something like that, and I really like what you've

Re: [discuss] Special Characters

2010-04-07 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2010/4/7 Thibault Holcombe thibault-holco...@utulsa.edu: I love openoffice but the biggest flaw for me is not being able to creat shortcuts for special characters like in Word.  I am forced to use word for that reason when I write papers in different languages.  I hope you guys can change that

Re: [discuss] Special Characters

2010-04-07 Thread John W Kennedy
On Apr 6, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Thibault Holcombe wrote: I love openoffice but the biggest flaw for me is not being able to creat shortcuts for special characters like in Word. I am forced to use word for that reason when I write papers in different languages. I hope you guys can change that

Re: [discuss] Special Characters

2010-04-07 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Polyglots: I work in 3 languages and lots of special characters. My answer is different for windows and Linux, as follows: Windows (XP): On the root of the boot drive, search for clip You should find an item calles clipbrd.exe in /windows/system 32. Right click, drag and make a

Re: [discuss] PDF's

2010-04-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
Erik Telman wrote: Hello, I use your program since 1.4 our something like that, and I really like what you've done. Since I use it for school reasons again I more and more use the converte to PDF button. Now there's is a function I hoped to find in OOo 3.2 and that would be to view the PDF