[users] Invisibility of a font

2008-04-15 Thread Bob Dowling
Summary: One particular combination of fonts isn't appearing in my OpenOffice.org font selector, even though all its variant forms are. In the font selector (for the paragraph style) I select DejaVu Sans for the font. The list of typefaces I am presented in the middle column is then:

Re: [users] Manual/book

2008-03-02 Thread Bob Dowling
I am a college student. i cound not afford Microsoft office. Friend of mine introduced me to open office today. I downloaded it and he told me what form to save things in because my teachers use Office 2007. I like very much just need help in saving in formats. Do you have a book to

[users] Modifying the color picker in a template

2008-03-01 Thread Bob Dowling
[I'm trying to use the USA spelling of color to make life easier for search systems. Apologies if I slip up from time to time.] Is there a means to set the color picker's palette from within a template? I'm trying to implement a house style which specifies a restricted palette. This

Re: [users] Modifying the color picker in a template

2008-03-01 Thread Bob Dowling
A little reflection on your goal: My experience and approach with house style projects is to make it easy / attractive for people to use the standards, and not to (try to) prevent them doing something else. I quite agree. If all I could do was add the house style colors to the existing

Re: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-16 Thread Bob Dowling
I don't expect to find a dictionary that can interpret where a special character is needed, but would like a quick way while I'm typing to add these characters. What is possible/what do you suggest? Thanks The AltGr key opens up a keyboard-based route to most European accented

[users] Inserting individual Impress slides in a Writer document

2007-11-07 Thread Bob Dowling
I have an existing Impress slideshow of roughly two hundred slides for a lecture course. At the moment I create the lecture notes by adding text to the slides notes and producing the notes handout for the students. However, sometimes the text exceeds what will fit in the notes box, and other