Re: [users] Annotating a structured list

2009-10-04 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2009.10.02 15:54 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote: ... If you apply the list style to the column (not just a cell, the column itself) before you start creating the list, then the hierarchy is implemented as you go along by going to the new row of the table, and using the indent/out

Re: [users] Re: Annotating a structured list

2009-10-04 Thread John Kaufmann
Joe, Barbara helped me to see that a table can be superimposed on a structured list, or a structured list on a table, and studying your example was crucial to my appreciation of the design philosophy - as was this: In a message dated 2

Re: [users] Sorting numbers for ranking

2009-10-04 Thread JOE Conner
Wade Smart wrote: I have many columns, for example = B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19, that represent team total points. I want to rank them automatically so I dont have to do it each week manually. Is there any way to do this other than something like "if this is bigger than this, etc, etc.. "??? Wa

Re: [users] Sorting numbers for ranking

2009-10-04 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2009.10.04 23:45 -0500, Wade Smart wrote: I have many columns, for example = B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19, that represent team total points. Well, 'B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19' are of course cells, not columns. Are you saying that every other column (B-D-F-H-J-L) is a team, and tot

Re: [users] Re: Setting/clearing tab stops or indent levels in a List (Numbering) style

2009-10-04 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2009.10.04 17:24 -0500, NoOp wrote: The other question - about clearing the default tabs set in Tools | Options in order to make way for a different set of tab stops in a paragraph style ... I did not find this in the Writer Guide: How /do/ you clear the default tab stops to m

[users] Sorting numbers for ranking

2009-10-04 Thread Wade Smart
I have many columns, for example = B19,D19,F19,H19,J19,L19, that represent team total points. I want to rank them automatically so I dont have to do it each week manually. Is there any way to do this other than something like "if this is bigger than this, etc, etc.. "??? Wade -- Registered Li

[users] a bug?

2009-10-04 Thread Wade Smart
I went to look up a function and nothing will come up in the Help docs. But I went though the topics I see this: D'oh! You found a bug (text/scalc/guide/formulas.xhp#formulas not found). Wade -- Registered Linux User: #480675 Registered Linux Machine: #408606 Linux since June 2005 -

Re: [users] Re: Mail Merge Template Generating Unwanted Blank Pages

2009-10-04 Thread Steven Kopischke
Harold Fuchs wrote: Steven Kopischke wrote: Try TOOLS -> OPTIONS->OPENOFFICE.ORG->WRITER->PRINT or TOOLS -> OPTIONS->WRITER->PRINT (Depends upon which version) and uncheck Print automatically inserted blank pages) Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA Joe: Thanks. I can't seem to get that option t

Re: [users] Re: Mail Merge Template Generating Unwanted Blank Pages

2009-10-04 Thread Harold Fuchs
Steven Kopischke wrote: Try TOOLS -> OPTIONS->OPENOFFICE.ORG->WRITER->PRINT or TOOLS -> OPTIONS->WRITER->PRINT (Depends upon which version) and uncheck Print automatically inserted blank pages) Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA Joe: Thanks. I can't seem to get that option to stay selected when

[users] Re: Mail Merge Template Generating Unwanted Blank Pages

2009-10-04 Thread NoOp
On 10/04/2009 03:20 PM, Steven Kopischke wrote: > >> Try TOOLS -> OPTIONS->OPENOFFICE.ORG->WRITER->PRINT >> or TOOLS -> OPTIONS->WRITER->PRINT >> (Depends upon which version) and uncheck Print automatically inserted >> blank pages) >> >> Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA >> > Joe: > > Thanks. I can't

Re: [users] Re: Mail Merge Template Generating Unwanted Blank Pages

2009-10-04 Thread Steven Kopischke
Try TOOLS -> OPTIONS->OPENOFFICE.ORG->WRITER->PRINT or TOOLS -> OPTIONS->WRITER->PRINT (Depends upon which version) and uncheck Print automatically inserted blank pages) Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA Joe: Thanks. I can't seem to get that option to stay selected when I close all OOo windows

Re: [users] Re: Mail Merge Template Generating Unwanted Blank Pages

2009-10-04 Thread JOE Conner
NoOp wrote: On 10/04/2009 02:02 PM, Steven Kopischke wrote: OOo v3.1.1 Windows 7 I have created a mail merge template for use with data contained in an OOo spreadsheet. It works as desired in every respect save one - it generates one blank page after each record, except the very last one.

[users] Re: Mail Merge Template Generating Unwanted Blank Pages

2009-10-04 Thread NoOp
On 10/04/2009 02:02 PM, Steven Kopischke wrote: > OOo v3.1.1 > Windows 7 > > I have created a mail merge template for use with data contained in an > OOo spreadsheet. It works as desired in every respect save one - it > generates one blank page after each record, except the very last one. I > p

[users] Re: Setting/clearing tab stops or indent levels in a List (Numbering) style

2009-10-04 Thread NoOp
On 10/03/2009 11:05 PM, John Kaufmann wrote: ... > The other question - about clearing the default tabs set in Tools | > Options in order to make way for a different set of tab stops in a > paragraph style - is the one that was annoying me, and for which I have > not yet found an answer. I wish

[users] Mail Merge Template Generating Unwanted Blank Pages

2009-10-04 Thread Steven Kopischke
OOo v3.1.1 Windows 7 I have created a mail merge template for use with data contained in an OOo spreadsheet. It works as desired in every respect save one - it generates one blank page after each record, except the very last one. I print all records to a single file. I cannot see the blank p

Re: [users] Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office

2009-10-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/10/1 Fred A. Miller : > Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office > > > For the last three years, I've been using a version of OpenOffice.org on > all of my systems. I'm sad to say that I'm

Re: [users] Re: Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office

2009-10-04 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2009/10/4 Mike Shearer : > Twayne wrote: > >>   Actually, I'm pretty close to the same decision myself but I'll more >> likely just continue to fumble along using both MSO and OOo in order to do >> the things I insist I must be able to do. > > Me too. > > It's the little irritations like help scree

Re: [users] Re: Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office

2009-10-04 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2009/10/4 Twayne : > "AG" wrote in message > news:4ac6488f.7030...@gmail.com >> Fred A. Miller wrote: >>> Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office >>> >>> >>> For the last three years, I've bee

Re: [users] Re: Goodbye, OpenOffice.Org. I'm going back to MS Office

2009-10-04 Thread Mike Shearer
Twayne wrote: Actually, I'm pretty close to the same decision myself but I'll more likely just continue to fumble along using both MSO and OOo in order to do the things I insist I must be able to do. Me too. It's the little irritations like help screens that are in a monstrously huge t