On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 10:01 +1100, Jonathon Coombes wrote:
On 20/03/2006, at 12:01 AM, martin wrote:
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1-A feature similar to the Make-It-Fit feature in WordPerfect. An
example of how this feature works in WP: Say you have a document
that is 1 1/2 pages long, and you want it to
I am the devil incarnate who wrote the RevealCodes macro as a proof
of concept - it is certainly not a fully functional macro. However, it
could be if people actually showed sufficient interest to get involved.
Styles versus reveal codes
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In my opinion WordPerfect was a
The original poster was looking for the functionality of the equivalent
to Ctrl+T in Microsoft Word in Writer. The idea is that at each press of
Ctrl+T the left indent of every line in the paragraph except the first
line indents to the next tab stop. (Ctrl+Shift+T does the reverse).
The macro
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 13:18 +, CPHennessy wrote:
On Sun January 15 2006 08:39, + Keith Harris wrote:
One enhncement that I use constantly in Word XP is the hanging indent
feature- Ctrl-T/Shift-Ctrl-T. Could you please add this to OpenOffice?
I would use this feature, and
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 07:50 -0600, Randomthots wrote:
[snip]
But it does come with OOo2.0.x as demonstrations:
Try: Tools Macros Run Macro... OOo Dev Macros Capitalise
Both the bsh and python rotate' the capitilisation from lowercase to
UPPERCASE to Sentence case.
So either of
Hi Jürgen,
Reply in-line.
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 09:42 +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
you bring up some good ideas (i have missed some of them as well) and
the best way to bring them in the product is to submit feature requests.
I agree, but what I want is some discussion first so that a clear
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 20:29 -0600, Randomthots wrote:
[snip]
It doesn't *sound* like a terribly complicated macro to write, but I
didn't find anything like it on OOMacros, OOExtras, or Ian's site.
But it does come with OOo2.0.x as demonstrations:
Try: Tools Macros Run Macro... OOo Dev
To make life easier for people migrating to OpenOffice.org and to get
around some of the limitations in the find and replace I have written a
macro called IanndFindReplace available from:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/
The instructions for installing in OOo2.0 need updating but if
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 15:25 -0500, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
[snip]
These seem to me to be quite reasonable! In the meanwhile, if your
macros are not already prominently promoted, now is the time.
Ideally, of course, we could host the macros, but if licensing is an
issue, then simply a
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 11:30 -0500, Chuck wrote:
How to do remove all newline characters in OOo writer? I tried enabling
regular expressions in the find replace dialog, then entered \n in
the search for field, and left replace with empty. It gives me
search key not found.
This question is
with caution.
See KeyHandler available from:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/
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are currently bound to commands, but no
ability (it seems) to bind to keys other than those listed. Surely
there's some mistake?
Hi Bob,
You may want to check out the key handler macros at:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/
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more feasible.
What do you think of such a work flow?
Do you have suggestions for improvement?
Do you have any alternative ideas?
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On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 00:25 -0700, Beckie Child wrote:
I'd like information about how to create an icon to add to a tool bar for
the page preview command.
Any ideas?
I'm assuming that you are using OpenOffice.org1.1.x rather than a beta
release (1.9.x). In 1.9.x the page preview button is on
On 9/23/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I miss one thing in OpenOffice.org Writer, to wit, that the status bar
shows me, in which line and column I am at the moment.
I know, that OpenOffice has a line numbering function, but this isn´t
adequate, I think.
I have
. In the listbox “Macro name”, select SetupAltKeyHandler.
5. Click OK
6. Repeat the same procedure for Open Document in the events list.
Thanks, Ian
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On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 22:11 +0200, Johan Wild wrote:
A nice feature, I think, would be a macro that changes the font size in all
formula objects in the same document.
Checkout AlterAllMathObjects.sxw available from:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/
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I have written a macro, ReferenceManager, that lets you manage bookmarks
and set references, including renaming them. It is available from:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/
Thanks, Ian
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:58 +, William W. Austin wrote:
[snip]
A pointer would be useful here
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 21:20, Mathias Bauer wrote:
[snipped comments about Searching in Writer and PageLayout enumeration]
Thanks Mathias for offering to look into these areas.
A much higher priority for me is having more in the API such as the
ability to easily have docked/floating
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 10:06, Mathias Bauer wrote:
Ian Laurenson wrote:
* In Writer searching is at a document level thus coding for searching
within a selection is extremely tedious and the resulting code is slow.
Interesting, can you provide an example that shows the problem
Reply in-line.
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 22:15, Chris Benatar wrote:
[snip]
I was really looking forward to using StarBasic/Openoffice.orgBasic and
learning a new productivity tool with the key word here being
productivity. So lets grab a 3 line VBA macro that is about as simple
as I can find,
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 01:03, Paul B. wrote:
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote:
[snip]
Ian is right, all five types of styles can be assigned via keyboard
shortcut in 2.0. Sweet!
I was just wondering about this, as I have a need to change some
text to the color red. But from what I see this has
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:12, Paul B. wrote:
Ian Laurenson wrote:
[snip]
You can create or modify an existing character style, with a red font
colour.
In 1.9.x you can then assign a key shortcut to it.
In 1.1.x you would require a macro for assigning a key shortcut. For a
simple one off
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 15:44, Randomthots wrote:
[snip]
What really needs to be assignable to shortcut keys is *character*
styles. I like the concept of character styles but I find them
cumbersome to use. Compare the ease of hitting CNTL-B for bold or CNTL-U
for underline to all the
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 13:47, Daniel Carrera wrote:
[snip]
You're also ignoring what they use spreadsheets for. Though Excel has a
lot taht Calc doesn't, there is no guarantee that a business that uses a
lot of spread sheets, has to necessarily use functions that Calc doesn't
have.
Having
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 16:43, Jonathon Coombes wrote:
[snip]
I have put together some basic information regarding the
OpenOffice.org knowledgebase.
[snip]
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 19:55, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote:
What technology is being used here? Also, perhaps we can begin to think
of
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 07:47, Claude Needham wrote:
It would be very handy to have a search feature that could work across
many files. For example searching a folder of documents for any
document containing a phrase.
You may like to check out IannzFindFiles available from:
. Sophie, Laurent,
Agnes and myself are interested in contributing. Of course, we need
people who understand OOo's addon system (I don't). We hoped that Ian
Laurenson, Kevin Hendricks, Bernard Marcelly and Russ Phillips might be
interested.
I am definitely interested.
A discussion
The add-on concept is something that I started discussing on this list
last year, moved to the api-dev list. The general view was that the word
extension was better than add-on.
http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=devby=threadfrom=506020
If people are interested, I would like to facilitate a BOF for
OpenOffice.org macros at LCA 2005 OpenOffice.org Miniconf.
I envisage it to be:
* a problem solving workshop
* a getting started guide
* a discussion about collaborative macro development
It is possible to run an informal BOF on Mon
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 01:28, CPH wrote:
On Sunday 06 March 2005 09:59, Andrews wrote:
[snip]
Finally - what you have done, creating free and very useful software,
is a fantastic service to computer users all over the world - I just
have a concern that eventually the lack of financial
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 09:03, Andrews wrote:
[snip]
Another issue that I mentioned in my first email is the possibility of
turning a spreadsheet into an input form that users would only be able
to enter specified fields that the form would prompt them to fill in
and the entry validated for
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 01:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are using your product for a long time and are enjoing using it.
We are using LaTEX too and having difficulties in converting
documents from LaTEX format to OOo format. Do you plan to include
converter LaTEX-OOo in the next releases of
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 14:38, Piotr Kozbial wrote:
Hi,
I was forced to move from Lyx/Latex to MS-Word/OpenOffice. Both word
processors are great, however in Lyx I have colapsable notes, that are
not printable. Note in Lyx is just a fragment of text (framed and
highlited). In OO and
On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 13:00, Ian Laurenson wrote:
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 14:38, Piotr Kozbial wrote:
Hi,
I was forced to move from Lyx/Latex to MS-Word/OpenOffice. Both word
processors are great, however in Lyx I have colapsable notes, that are
not printable. Note in Lyx is just
On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 05:11, Karin Voit wrote:
Hi Ian,
The issue of word/character count is very important because there are
standards
for assignments to hand in, e.g. as a writer. For instance, editors demand of
a
manuscript to be formatted to 30 lines per page and 60 characters per
use it as such. This
way the user would get notified when a response to their problem had
been posted without having to get a large number of emails most of which
are irrelevant to their problem.
What do you think?
Thanks, Ian Laurenson
IannzFindFiles.uno.zip and associated
documentation available from
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/
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seeing some information at a time can also be confusing.
Thus I am seeking guidance as to what people prefer - one large dialog
or splitting the controls up into pages (the Wizard approach).
Thanks, Ian Laurenson
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 09:18, blabla wrote:
[snip]
I was begging for a word count plus an indication of the cursor's in a
row to be displayed in the status bar at the bottom.
[remainder snipped]
I am already playing with word counts in the status bar. I unfortunately
sent my message to the wrong
in C++ (I'm not a
Python expert).
First steps would be refining an API, then creating/modifying an IDE for
development of OpyO.
So what do you think - is this Py in the sky or something worth
considering?
Thanks, Ian Laurenson
, ... and
that these fields can also be used in search criteria). I confess that
this was the first thing I looked into for customising OOo and haven't
been able to figure out how - other than to change the source code.
Thanks, Ian Laurenson
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 02:03, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
While not as good as some of the other search engines recommended I have
just cobbled together a macro for finding OOo files that works from
within OOo and I think works at an acceptable speed.
The Python component is heavily based on Daniel
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