I maintain that you WANT this behavior because you will not accidentally
over-write others changes. Not sure if you can disable the warning. The
warning is there because most people are upset if they edit a document
for a while and then find out that they cannot save it.
There is one other thi
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 06:19, Francesco Abeni wrote:
> I have to write some essays, for which i will be paid basing on chars, but
> not including spaces.
Paid based on characters?
That is very unusual.
Much more common is (total number of characters - (number of
characters/6) ) / 6, where the
You are in the right direction !
You need to create a macro, and then assign it to an event in the event
tab. A good event is the "on mouse released"
You will need to write the macro yourself, assign it a name, save it in
the document [check the OO user guide on how to create and save macros
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:14:38 +0100, Brian Barker wrote:
> There are (at least?) three ways of creating the change of page style
> that you need.
>
> 1. On the Organizer tab of a page style, you will find a Next Style
> defined. This next page style takes over automatically when your text
> spill
2008/8/6 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> At 17:53 06/08/2008 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote:
>>
>> In another copy use Regular Expressions to change each type of mistake to,
>> for example "itself followed by " So change bad double spaces to "
>> ", doubled apostrophes to '' and so on. T
2008/8/6 Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Mostly because keyboard navigation is generally considered to act
> directly on the blinker (Insertion Point, IP Mark, whatever), whereas
> mouse navigation scrolling acts on the screen scrollbars which tend to
> be a desktop GUI thing.
I am completely
At 05:08 07/08/2008 +1200, Michael Adams wrote:
I read Brian Barker's reply before replying myself, and though it
answers your question, it made my head hurt :)
;^)
Writing it made mine hurt!
Brian Barker
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At 17:53 06/08/2008 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote:
In another copy use Regular Expressions to change each type of
mistake to, for example "itself followed by " So change bad
double spaces to " ", doubled apostrophes to '' and so on.
Then he can highlight all the occurrences of
I
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:49:57 +0300
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I cannot find any information on how to scroll with the keyboard under
> Open Office. Scrolling is when the current viewable part of the
> document is changed, but the cursor remains in the same location. I
> can scroll with the mouse wheel,
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:44:46 +0100
Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2008 12:28:21 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > Yes, in VIM and in Kate (my two preferred text editors) one can
> > easily scroll with the keyboard.
>
> I can't in Kate, and I can only do so in Vim with insert not set - but
> the
2008/8/6 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 2008/8/6 Francesco Abeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Dotan Cohen ha scritto:
> >>
> >> Is there a feature for showing multiple spaces, double single
> >> apostrophes, and other 'bad' punctuation?
> >>
> >> I have an 80-page thesis that I am reviewing. The au
Jennifer, I just forwarded the message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard
Detweiler) about his newsletter, so you should probably correspond with
him about it. When you aren't subscribed to the mailing list, you can
miss messages when people forget to cc you, and I waned to make sure you
saw his m
2008/8/5 Phil Hibbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>Well now the poor old guy we called is going to be really confused. I
>>almost feel bad...
>
> Almost? You should be utterly ashamed of yourself, in fact you should
> be arrested and put in front of a jury, if you actually harrassed an
> innocent old man
Brian Barker ha scritto:
At 15:19 06/08/2008 +0200, Francesco Abeni wrote:
I have to write some essays, for which i will be paid basing on chars,
but not including spaces. So i have [?]
I could certainly write a few-lines perl script which does the trick,
but I'd like to know if there is someth
2008/8/6 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> At 15:09 06/08/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to highlight sentences longer than N words, N characters,
>> contain more than N commas, or that span more than N lines? I am
>> proofreading a document where the distinction between para
2008/8/6 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> At 15:16 06/08/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>> For some reason, I cannot find the Page button, so this is not working for
>> me.
>
> In the Navigator, the second button from the left in the top row is circular
> with a right-arrow on it, with a down
At 15:19 06/08/2008 +0200, Francesco Abeni wrote:
I have to write some essays, for which i will be paid basing on
chars, but not including spaces. So i have [?]
I could certainly write a few-lines perl script which does the
trick, but I'd like to know if there is something already done.
Anybody
OO 2.4
I went through the Tools/options settings and could not find a place to
set the default font and size for presentations.
Where/how ?
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william {at} TechServSys {dot} com
Wade Smart ha scritto:
I have to write some essays, for which i will be paid basing on chars,
but not including spaces. (...)
Tools > Word Count >
Current selection> Characters
Whole document> Characters.
Close. I'm quite certain i wrote "not inluding spaces" :-)
Thank you anyway.
--
Franc
At 15:09 06/08/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Is there a way to highlight sentences longer than N words, N
characters, contain more than N commas, or that span more than N
lines? I am proofreading a document where the distinction between
paragraph and sentence is blurry at best (to put it mildl
At 15:16 06/08/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
For some reason, I cannot find the Page button, so this is not working for me.
In the Navigator, the second button from the left in the top row is
circular with a right-arrow on it, with a down-arrow next to it. The
help tip says "Navigation". P
tions?
Thank you for your time.
20080806 0902 GMT-6
Tools > Word Count >
Current selection> Characters
Whole document> Characters.
Wade
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I have to write some essays, for which i will be paid basing on chars,
but not including spaces. So i have
I could certanly write a few-lines perl script which does the trick, but
i'd like to know if there is something already done.
Anybody has got any suggestions?
Thank you for your time.
2008/8/6 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> At 13:49 06/08/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>
>> I cannot find any information on how to scroll with the keyboard under
>> Open Office. Scrolling is when the current viewable part of the document is
>> changed, but the cursor remains in the same locat
Is there a way to highlight sentences longer than N words, N
characters, contain more than N commas, or that span more than N
lines? I am proofreading a document where the distinction between
paragraph and sentence is blurry at best (to put it mildly).
Please excuse the barrage of mails today! I a
At 13:49 06/08/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I cannot find any information on how to scroll with the keyboard
under Open Office. Scrolling is when the current viewable part of
the document is changed, but the cursor remains in the same
location. I can scroll with the mouse wheel, but that requ
2008/8/6 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> o Go to Edit | Find & Replace... (or Ctrl+F).
> o Enter two spaces (or whatever) in the "Search for" box.
> o Press Find All.
> o Go to the Formatting toolbar and select a suitable Highlighting colour.
> o Repeat for other faults, using different co
2008/8/6 Lisi Reisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2008 12:28:21 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Yes, in VIM and in Kate (my two preferred text editors) one can easily
>> scroll with the keyboard.
>
> I can't in Kate, and I can only do so in Vim with insert not set - but the
> distinction betw
At 13:19 06/08/2008 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Is there a feature for showing multiple spaces, double single
apostrophes, and other 'bad' punctuation? I have an 80-page thesis
that I am reviewing. The author, while an expert in the field of
filtration, is a terrible writer. He sometimes uses " d
On Wednesday 06 August 2008 12:28:21 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Yes, in VIM and in Kate (my two preferred text editors) one can easily
> scroll with the keyboard.
I can't in Kate, and I can only do so in Vim with insert not set - but the
distinction between insert and escape in Vim is not one that appl
2008/8/6 Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2008/8/6 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> I cannot find any information on how to scroll with the keyboard under
>> Open Office. Scrolling is when the current viewable part of the
>> document is changed, but the cursor remains in the same location. I
2008/8/6 Rui Gonçalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Thanks, Guy,
> I downloaded OppenOffice from the OpenOffice.org website. I'll try to
> restart te computer again and see if it works. Yesterday it didn't work. It
> always says the program is working and because of that I can't eject the
> "drive" or d
2008/8/6 Francesco Abeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Dotan Cohen ha scritto:
>>
>> Is there a feature for showing multiple spaces, double single
>> apostrophes, and other 'bad' punctuation?
>>
>> I have an 80-page thesis that I am reviewing. The author, while an
>> expert in the field of filtration, is
2008/8/6 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I cannot find any information on how to scroll with the keyboard under
> Open Office. Scrolling is when the current viewable part of the
> document is changed, but the cursor remains in the same location. I
> can scroll with the mouse wheel, but that requ
Dotan Cohen ha scritto:
Is there a feature for showing multiple spaces, double single
apostrophes, and other 'bad' punctuation?
I have an 80-page thesis that I am reviewing. The author, while an
expert in the field of filtration, is a terrible writer. He sometimes
uses " double quotes and someti
2008/8/6 Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Harold, my use is similar to Bob's. I just find it less "intrusive" to have
> mailing list traffic *not* filling up my mail boxes. News is a separate part
> of TB for me and I deal with it differently.
>
> Email is more direct and - this is my personal o
I cannot find any information on how to scroll with the keyboard under
Open Office. Scrolling is when the current viewable part of the
document is changed, but the cursor remains in the same location. I
can scroll with the mouse wheel, but that requires moving the keys
from the keyboard. I have als
Bob Estes wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
original message
From: Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:09:57 +0100
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Subject: Terrance
mike scott wrote:
On 1 Aug 2008 at 12:17, Jason Hunter wrote:
The "ter
Is there a feature for showing multiple spaces, double single
apostrophes, and other 'bad' punctuation?
I have an 80-page thesis that I am reviewing. The author, while an
expert in the field of filtration, is a terrible writer. He sometimes
uses " double quotes and sometimes uses '' single quotes
2008/8/5 Richard Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>I have pestered no one. I called and spoke to a nice secretary and spoke
>>nicely. I did not even tell her what my call was about, I simply left my
>>phone number for Terrance to return my call. And when||if I do speak to
>>Terrance my intention is||w
2008/8/6 Rui Gonçalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Dear Sirs,
> I downloaded the OpenOffice to my MAc and couldn't use it; now I'm trying
> to uninstall it and I can't do it; could you please advise me on this? I
> just bought the Office for Mac (special price for employees) and I will not
> need the Op
Harold Fuchs ha scritto:
(...)
No, it doesn't. We all read from left to right and from top to bottom.
This argument
has been "around the horn" more than once. Many of us "old timers" simply
won't read top posted mail. I did this one, but normallyNADA!
You are obviously a mere stripling
Dear Sirs,
I downloaded the OpenOffice to my MAc and couldn't use it; now I'm trying to
uninstall it and I can't do it; could you please advise me on this? I just
bought the Office for Mac (special price for employees) and I will not need the
OpenOffice. Everytime I try to eject the OpenOffice t
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