[discuss] Scripting OO with Quickeys 2?

2006-04-17 Thread RBL
Anyone know the incantation to get Quickeys to recognize OpenOffice? Apparently OpenOffice doesn't put itself on whatever task list Quickeys is using to compile a list of running applications. As such, one can't script OpenOffice using Quickeys unless the scripts are applied universally -- no

[discuss] The REAL most wanted OOo function - in my experience

2006-04-22 Thread RBL
Cristian Driga wrote: Hi, Whenever I managed to make someone try OOo, after a short while I got the same question: How do you insert page numbers ? And when I showed the "quick way" of: Insert Header/Footer + Insert->Fields-> Page number... I got the same response: "ah.. it's too hard for

[discuss] Re: Scripting OO with Quickeys 2?

2006-04-22 Thread RBL
CPHennessy wrote: On Mon April 17 2006 22:03, RBL wrote: Anyone know the incantation to get Quickeys to recognize OpenOffice? Apparently OpenOffice doesn't put itself on whatever task list Quickeys is using to compile a list of running applications. As such, one can't script OpenOf

[discuss] Re: Shortcut keys

2006-04-22 Thread RBL
Greg Brandon wrote: Hi, I'm a former excel user exploring Calc, and I'm used to using the CTRL-1 key combination (it may not be well-known) in Excel to bring up the Cell Formatting window, since I tend to use it a lot. Having this shortcut key in Calc would be really good for those who are us

[discuss] Thesaurus doesn't work?

2006-07-18 Thread RBL
I'm baffled by this one. Selecting a word and pressing Ctrl+F7 (or using the menu) calls up the Thesaurus, but it +never+ suggests any words. I have reinstalled and updated the dictionaries, to no avail. English is the selected language. Also, using File | Wizards to update the dictionaries

[discuss] Re: New idea to compete with Microsoft Office Power Point

2006-10-16 Thread RBL
Better still, export as a video file (MPEG, WMV, MOV, RM, and/or FLASH). - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[discuss] Macro to increase/decrease font size?

2006-12-11 Thread RBL
Hi all, One feature from Microsoft Office that I miss are the Shift+Ctrl+< and Shift+Ctrl+> shortcuts. If you select text and hit one of those shortcuts, Office will increase > or decrease < the selected text by 1 point. Is there an OpenOffice macro out there I could clone that does the

[discuss] Re: Should I consider the HTML editor to be end of life?

2006-12-11 Thread RBL
Slight thread drift (my apologies), but what would be nice to see would be an OpenOffice equivalent to MSFT Office Publisher. IMHO that's the big missing piece here. An OpenOffice Page could fill the gap on both fronts by allowing WYSIWYG page layout and design, and then allow users to ge

[discuss] SHARE an OpenOffice CALC spreadsheet

2006-12-27 Thread RBL
Can an OpenOffice spreadsheet be shared over a network? In Excel, this is done by clicking Tools | Share Workbook. I know about Google Office and ThinkFree, etc. I've tried a bunch. Haven't found one that's accetable. Google Spreadsheets is slow and buggy. ThinkFree takes tens of minut

[discuss] Re: Competing with office 2007

2007-03-16 Thread RBL
William Baric wrote: Most people for whom I offer service do not search for options in menus and do not use the context-menu. They do not try to learn, don't read books, they don't even use help screens. They use what they see and nothing else. Icons must be big and obvious. For them, the interfa

[discuss] Re: Competing with office 2007

2007-03-16 Thread RBL
I had exactly the opposite experience. I run a writing team. We're deadline-driven, and need to be highly productive. Some on my team use Office 2003. Others use OOo21. We test drove Office 2007 two weeks ago. People wre literally repulsed by the prospect of having to re-learn the entire suite

[discuss] Re: Competing with office 2007

2007-03-16 Thread RBL
Mathias Bauer wrote: Chris Monahan wrote: I would like to see OpenOffice come up with some comparable features, but instead of fixing the user into an interface, customisability is our strength. Surely we can come up with some neat ideas among all of us :P I already have a few... I agree tha

[discuss] Re: Competing with office 2007

2007-03-16 Thread RBL
And I personally believe they did this to visually differentiate Office 2007 from the increasing inroads being made by OOo. Ian Lynch wrote: I believe MS has patented the ribbon so OOo needs to implement similar (better?) functionality in a different way. That is the real challenge, do somethin

[discuss] Re: Competing with office 2007

2007-03-16 Thread RBL
I can't stand the new GUI. It's fine for people who just fired up their first computer. It's lame for experienced users. Worse, MSFT killed support for classic menus and shortcuts, so users who upgrade don't have a choice. It would not have been difficult for them to include the ability for

[discuss] Re: Competing with office 2007

2007-03-16 Thread RBL
Mathias Bauer wrote: I think one has to differentiate between the ribbon and the idea behind it. The idea is not bad - make the user interface more context sensitive. The implementation IMHO sucks. Ciao, Mathias I'm with you. Interestingly, the Vista team eschewed the ribbon. Classic menus in

[discuss] Feature Request

2007-03-22 Thread RBL
Feature request: True smooth-scrolling in Writer. Right now Writer "jumps" when it hits a page break in Print Layout view. This makes it harder to edit long documents. MSFT Word allows users to smoothly scroll continuously while in Print or Normal modes. In Normal mode, this is the standard b

[discuss] Re: Feature Request

2007-03-28 Thread RBL
Chris Monahan wrote: Don't think it's quite the same as issue 25483 this seems to be a request for the feature in MS word where clicking on a page boundary closes the gap on screen allowing one to read it as one 'block' I think it's both -- smooth scrolling, plus gap-less reading/editing. ---