JOE Conner wrote:
... It seems to me that the Open Document format specifications
should have nailed the format down precisely. Otherwise, the document
can not fully portable.
The ODF Formula specification specifies the semicolon as the function
argument separator.
However, the syntax spe
John Jason Jordan wrote:
...
I finally got it to work with this syntax:
left lbrace alignl stack {`left [ +approximant right ]~"___
X"_0~"]"rsub stem # `left [ +nasal right ]~"___ X"_0~"]"rsub stem #
`left [ binom {+syllabic} {+front} right ]~"___ X"_0~"]"rsub stem # `
{"___ " _stem left [ +s
S Perry wrote:
... I checked
line by line. They LOOKED the same. I then inserted a new column and
subtracted the second result from the first, expecting "0," row by
row. Instead, the result was the value that appeared in both cells...
most of the time. ...
It's hard to be sure without having y
Gene Young wrote:
Joe Smith wrote:
...
Note: The cell format does not determine whether a cell holds a
numeric value or a text value. That is determined by Calc's
examination of the data when it is entered, and /nothing/ after will
change its value type.
Actually you can change
Brian Barker wrote:
At 22:09 25/03/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
OOo3 Calc: I have set as default font (template) for OOo Lucida
Console 12. In the Writer everything is OK, in the Calc however:
...
You mean bigger sideways, don't you? Interesting. Happens for me, too
(3.0.1, Win XP SP3).
Eustace wrote:
...
Yes but in the Writer the bold font looks OK. I don't see why it
shouldn't in Calc. It seems to me that they only have to replace the
revelant code of the Calc with that of the Writer...
For me, both Writer and Calc show the same problem with Lucida Console:
the bold chara
JOE Conner wrote:
Dave Barton wrote:
...
Format an empty Calc cell with an ISO 8601 date format (ie. -MM-DD)
and then type, or paste, a date in US format (ie. MM/DD/) into the
cell and the date is displayed as entered. Reformatting the cell after
the date is entered does not change it to
Alain Baeckeroot wrote:
I need to often switch my display from formula to value...
Is there a way to add a button for this in one toolbar, or defined a
keyboard shortcut ?
According to the help, it's available as Ctrl+` (that's a back-quote;
the leftmost key on the number row--on US keyboard
Timur Tabi wrote:
...
The trouble I'm having is inserting LX4. There does not appear to be
a way to directly insert that LX4 into a new block of text.
You can use the "Format Painbrush" from the toolbar to mark a paragraph
as part of an existing list.
With the editing cursor in the existing
Timur Tabi wrote:
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Joe Smith wrote:
...
You can also copy/paste any of the paragraphs from the list to another
location and it will retain its identity as part of the original list.
That does not work. When I paste the text, it does include the
numbering. I
John Meyer wrote:
...
I am trying to extract the hour from a cell and put it into a second
column, but when I use the HOUR() function all it returns is 12:00:00 AM
This is a little tricky.
Times in a spreadsheet are stored internally as fractions of one day. So
all times, and all the times i
Joe Smith wrote:
...
Strangely, Calc chooses to display the result as if it were a time
instead of just a normal decimal value. ...
Oops, my bad. It's not Calc's fault at all. The original spreadsheet had
formatted the result as a time, thus the integer results displayed as a
time
On 06/19/2009 06:50 AM, AG wrote:
...
How do I set it up so that when I open a document it defaults to opening
it at the place I last worked on - i.e. the end of the document?
OOo Writer tries to be smart here: if the document is opened by its
author, the editing cursor and view are restored a
On 06/23/2009 05:16 AM, AG wrote:
...
I suppose another issue is the length of time it takes to autosave: with
3Gb of RAM and a further 3Gb allocated to my swap partition, one would
think that there'd be plenty of memory for OOo to use in the save
process
I can only guess, but I believe tha
On 06/23/2009 08:12 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
A non-techie user wants to start using Impress to make slides for his
presentations. Until now he has been making .bmp slides in Paint!
He wants to know if Impress can animate a slide like this:
...
... if someone could say "yes, this is possible" that
On 06/24/2009 01:31 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I wonder if anyone knows of a function I might use to find the row
number of the last non-blank cell in a column?
...
Try
=MAX(NOT(ISBLANK(A1:A65536))*ROW(A1:A65536))
as an array formula--use Ctrl+Shift+Enter to enter the formula.
On 07/04/2009 12:36 AM, NoOp wrote:
...
So he sent me both files. Problem is that the vlookup spreadsheet has a
hardcoded link to the user directory and instead of #NAME error, I get a
Error:501 (Invalid character)
Any chance that the file path on the original system contains a 'funny'
cha
On 08/15/2009 01:23 AM, Tamblyne wrote:
I'm trying to copy certain cells from one sheet to another. If the
first cell is empty, I want the second cell to be empty, too, ...
Testing for empty cells can be a real mess, because there are various
degrees of "emptiness" and the means of testing fo
On 08/26/2009 06:15 AM, Alex Zachopoulos wrote:
I have this Write file which I am putting together, and I would like to keep
it organized with Sections, so that I can apply different settings to each
section, such as page borders, headers& footers etc.
...
I am trying to figure out how I can ma
On 08/28/2009 07:16 AM, Karti wrote:
Hi,
The following formula works perfectly in Excel but it does not work in Calc.
{=Row(1:12)}
Also the following doesn't work in Calc,
{=Row(Indirect("1:12"))}
...
You can use =ROW(A1:A12) or =ROW(INDIRECT("A1:A12")); they should work
in Excel as well. You
On 08/31/2009 06:49 AM, Karti wrote:
Dear Joe,
Thanks for the clarification. Is it possible to translate this
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/betternetworkdays.aspx in calc?
Sorry, that's more than I can get into right now. There are some basic
things there that don't even look familiar to me; I
On 09/07/2009 01:56 AM, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
...
Is there any way in the configuration that I could specify (and have OOo
reliably read) an alternate font directory?...
Check in the OOo section under the "Start" menu for something called
"spadmin". If it's not there, you'll have to run it f
On 09/07/2009 12:39 PM, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
...
I've encountered a problem. That program isn't there.
...
Ugh. Did you try a file search for it?
It's not normally needed anymore, and I know there was some discussion
of phasing it out altogether, but it's still distributed with the Linux
On 09/17/2009 02:42 PM, L Duperval wrote:
... I want the cropped picture to appear inside the polygon. ...
Place a copy of the polygon over the image, and do Modify > Shapes >
Intersect.
This does not do a true clipping of the image by the polygon (see Issue
104035: http://qa.openoffice.org
On 09/25/2009 08:03 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
...
What is desired is that a paragraph with embedded list look overall like
a paragraphs without embedded list. This means, for example, that
between the list description and list elements there be no
end-of-paragraph spacing, while the last list elem
On 09/25/2009 10:58 PM, John Kaufmann wrote:
...
- I can make the frame, and put the list in it; so far, so good.
- I can anchor the frame to a character - but which character to make it
stay where is belongs, ...
The anchor is "_as_ character," not "_to_ character". An object anchored
"as ch
On 09/26/2009 03:20 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
Let me digress to ask what should be a basic question ...
...
Is that the way it is supposed to be done?
That looks about right.
In this case, I think there's actually another step. When you Insert >
Frame, then apply a frame style that changes th
On 10/02/2009 12:56 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
...
In WordPerfect, even with such a structured list (what WordPerfect calls
an "Outline"), one can "Indent" after any list member to a common point
on the line, as shown above. I have been wasting a lot of time trying to
see how to do this kind of ann
On 10/02/2009 02:35 PM, John Kaufmann wrote:
In a message dated 2009.10.02 13:20 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
In WordPerfect, even with such a structured list (what WordPerfect calls
an "Outline"), one can "Indent" after any list member to a common point
on the line, as show
On 10/05/2009 02:03 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
...
... I don't understand what you mean by 'hierarchical', beside
outline-style indentation, which is still there when I view it.
So sorry - that question came from first viewing your example in OO 2.2,
which is what was on the computer (not mine)
On 10/06/2009 02:36 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
...
...OO's handling of a hierarchical list changes
depending on whether the list has some level-indicating character
(numbers, letters, bullets, ...) or whether 'None' is selected in the
style "Options" > "Numbering". In the latter case, which is used
On 10/19/2009 04:07 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
2009/10/19 Michael Adams
Had a little trouble setting default tab stops in writer today. I wanted
to set them for one paragraph only, ...
...
The only thing I can't find a way to do is to specify, for example "every
1/2 inch". Perhaps someone else wou
d 2009.10.19 11:54 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
>
>> The concept of "default tab stops" or "tab at every half-inch" are
>> only supported at the application level, not per paragraph, and you
>> will do well to avoid them in any case.
>> ...
>> Setting a
On 10/20/2009 08:15 AM, Michele Zarri wrote:
Hello All,
As the subject states, I am in the process of updating the Writer user
guide (www.oooauthors.org) to include some new features introduced
since OOo 3.0. At present I am looking at the capability of allocating
to a paragraph style its own ou
On 10/23/2009 03:58 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
2009/10/23 James Elliott
A question on Text Boxes ...
... oops! ... the whole text box has disappeared, gone, along
with all my carefully selected margins ... poof! - gone!
...
When you create the text box, put a line (border) around it:
...
... Whe
On 11/07/2009 03:55 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
... "Border" is not an independent
entity from "Area"; on the contrary, "Paragraph area" is bounded by the
paragraph borders, and "Page area" is bounded by the page borders.
because the selection set is not orthogonal, the model doesn't compute;
it run
On 11/24/2009 07:25 PM, JOE Conner wrote:
... What I want to be able to do is import a style and incorporate it
within my own new document (F-11) dropdown list of styles. ...
It would be nice if the "Load Styles" function was available for Calc,
but you work around the problem using File > Tem
On 01/29/2010 05:18 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
It would appear that on Jan 29, Brian Barker did say:
At 12:13 28/01/2010 -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
It drives me to distraction whenever my date is converted from:
11:20 am to 11:20:00 AM
...
If I understand you correctly, the
On 03/08/2010 04:29 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
In Writer (3.1.1 currently), how can I bracket two or more list-items
together with a large curly brace placed at the *right* of the longest item?
Thus:
List item 1)
List Item Number 2 ) This text refers to all three items
This
On 03/08/2010 02:20 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
Thanks; where do I get the curly bracket graphics from? Or is there an
easy way to make them? How, please?
Look on the Drawing toolbar, under "Symbol Shapes". You may need to
activate the Drawing toolbar in Writer: View > Toolbars > Drawing.
If y
On 03/12/2010 04:35 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
OOo 3.2 on Windows XP Pro X64
I have a small document that includes a narrow 2-column
table, consisting of a heading row and 54 rows of content.
I wanted to make the table double-wide and bring the lower
27 rows up to occupy the new columns 3 and
On 06/10/2010 04:23 AM, Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe someone here knows why the line spacing is increased when bullets
are applied?
...
I've been working (off & on) at something of a "howto" on OOo Writer's
lists. Here's the section that I did for this problem:
http://www.martnet.com/~jes
On 06/21/2010 08:17 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
In the following Writer formula there exists a space between the %mu
and the m (for micrometers):
d_0.95 = 20 %mu m
How can the user remove the space?
With the upcoming release (3.3, or the developer snapshots leading up to
it), a new command is avai
On 06/21/2010 04:18 PM, John Kaufmann wrote:
In a message dated 2010.06.21 09:53 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
Maybe someone here knows why the line spacing is increased when
bullets are applied? ...
I've been working (off & on) at something of a "howto" on OOo
Writer's l
On 11/28/2010 11:03 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer but I've
decided I don't understand the thinking behind them. Perhaps some would
explain it to me:
If I create a new blank Writer document, type a few lines and then
insert a section, a few
Larry Evans wrote:
...
Is there a way to just say I want another paragraph under
the existing list item?
Look on the Bullets and Numering toolbar, there's a button with the
tooltip "Insert Unnumbered Entry".
You can also do this with the keyboard: when you type Return to start a
new paragra
Tim Johnson wrote:
Hi:
Have files with following format:
First line:
column names, delimited by TABs, no text qualifiers
Following lines:
cells delimited by TABS.
I would like to import such a file into calc.
...
For importing text data in Calc, I use and recommend this:
1) Insert > Sheet From
H.S. wrote:
...
In conclusion, if an eps file with a preview is used in OOo, OOo does
not slow down on the page which contains that file but also it retains
the low res in the exported PDF file. Printing the document gives the
right eps in the output though.
This is the expected behavior. If an
Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/8/30 Michele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Remember that you have to press F9 or Tools > Update > Fields to...
guess what? update the fields :-)
Fields are otherwise updated before you print, when you save the
document and at some other events (maybe).
I just discovered this one
emf wrote:
How do I customize the Status toolbar (the one at the bottom of the
window) in the OOWriter so that it will show the position of the cursor
(Page, Line, Position on the line) like in WP? ...
While I respect the fact that many people ask for this feature, I have
yet to hear a convi
emf wrote:
...
I have style Heading 2 between 2 paragraphs. The style of the paragraphs
is double spaced. I want to position the heading exactly between the end
line of the first paragraph and the last line of the second paragraph.
...
Thanks for trying to help me see how this works.
Sorry,
Jason Cipriani wrote:
...
What is the most convenient way to format this document like above as
I'm entering the text?
Just a point of information, since others have already answered the
question.
Writer includes pre-defined styles for this: "List Heading" and "List
Contents".
Also, it wo
Jim Allan wrote:
Joe Smith wrote:
Also, it would be nice if Writer supported this as an actual list (a
"dictionary list" in HTML). Writer provides no good way to sort the
list, or even to manually re-order it.
Highlight what you want to include in your list and then use To
James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote:
When I saved a Calc spreadsheet in Excel format to send to my
Accountant, the SUMPRODUCT formulas did not work because a Calc formula
like this:
=SUMPRODUCT(A1:A3000; B1:B3000)
was converted to :
=SUMPRODUCT(A1:A3000, B1:B3000)
ie semicolons ";" replac
Joe Smith wrote:
James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote:
When I saved a Calc spreadsheet in Excel format to send to my
Accountant, the SUMPRODUCT formulas did not work because a Calc
formula like this:
=SUMPRODUCT(A1:A3000; B1:B3000)
was converted to :
=SUMPRODUCT(A1:A3000, B1:B3000)
ie
James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote:
...
So, in Calc (forget Excel) we can use either of these formats, can we?:
=SUMPRODUCT(A1:A3000; D1:D3000<=TEST)
or
=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A3000)*(D1:D3000<=TEST))
Am I correct?
Yes, I believe that is correct. Logical tests in Calc always produce
numeri
James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote:
...
ie. I made it read:
=SUMPRODUCT(chqDEBIT,chqCODE=A13,chqDATE>=$D$4,chqDATE<=$D$5)
and the formula no longer worked! The sumproduct total I had in that
cell just disappeared - no error message, just no result.
If you're working in Calc then you n
Mark Knecht wrote:
...
I need to get the sum of column 1 * column 2 but only when the value
in column 1 is either negative or positive.
Hmm, "either negative or positive"? SUMPRODUCT(A1:A5; B1:B5) will do
that, since your condition is true for every number I can think of.
If you mean "only
Andis wrote:
I'm looking if there is easy possibility to chose variable from the
table, like in example below, ...
Maybe something like this:
=INDEX(RegData; MATCH(Height;RegHeights;1); MATCH(Species;RegSpecies;0))
The first MATCH produces the row number; the second the column.
Erling Larsen wrote:
... This work fine but my problem is, that i need the second decimal to be
either 0 or 5.
Your calculation works, but it is more complicated than it needs to be.
Calc always stores times as decimal values, but in days, not hours.
All you should need is
=MROUND(H7*24;0.0
Dotan Cohen wrote:
...
How can I have [it] so that I can simply update one list and the
others update automatically? ...
One way would be to use the technique that Writer uses for label sheets.
A section can get its contents through a link to another section. So you
make one section the mast
Dotan Cohen wrote:
I have a page that must be divided into four equal parts, two
vertically and two horizontally (2x2). Is there a 'smart' way of doing
this?
I have tried all the table formating options that I could find and the
best that I could do was to measure and set the width and height
ac
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Sorry for the delay. We have a new baby in the family!
Yow! Congratulations!
Here's a shot based on the linked sections document:
http://www.martnet.com/~jes/public_html/temp/quarter_page.odt
Quoth the server, 404.
Arr. My duh.
http://www.martnet.com/~jes/temp/quarter_p
Bart Friederichs wrote:
Cor Nouws wrote:
Bart Friederichs wrote (15-10-2008 14:28)
I would like to extend the shapes I have in OOo Draw. I found already
shapes in .odg files (http://lautman.net/mark/coo/index.html), but I
cannot find how I could import them in my shape-toolbar. How do I get
the
Bart Friederichs wrote:
...
You can add shapes to the Gallery from a drawing by drag & drop, but
you still have to do it one shape at a time.
That doesn't seem to work.
Could you be just a little more specific? ;-)
Well, let me guess that OOo's slightly peculiar drag and drop interface
is c
Ulrich Becker wrote:
...
But where is this lock information stored and how can I remove
it? I prefer not to have that sort of leftovers in a hidden
database ...
To lock a document file named "letter2mom.odt", Ooo 3 will create a lock
file alongside the document called
.~lock.letter2mom.odt#
Brian Barker wrote:
... If so, you can do this using an array formula. Enter this into
your result cell:
=SUM(C2:G2*(C2:G2-1))/(SUM(C2:G2)*(SUM(C2:G2)-1))
...
Nicely done!
Just one pointless point: The numerator
SUM(C2:G2*(C2:G2-1))
is equivalent to
SUMPRODUCT(C2:G2;C2:G2-1)
in wh
Brian Barker wrote:
... But the claim I was trying to make still stands: that -MM-DD
is easily available in OpenOffice, ...
A matter of opinion, but I don't think "easily" is the appropriate
adjective here.
It's embarrassing that a task as simple and as common as inserting the
current d
VLM TechSubs wrote:
...
Is there a way to create character styles, such that only specified font
properties are affected?
Yes, although the user interface is awkward and there are some glitches
which can make it difficult to manage effectively.
In the Styles and Formatting dialog, with the c
James Montgomery wrote:
... I was hoping there was something as simple as ./soffice --version.
Close:
$ ooffice -help
OpenOffice.org 2.4 680m18(Build:9364)
...
$ ooo241 -help
OpenOffice.org 2.4 680m17(Build:9310)
...
This doesn't show the minor version number which is visible in the Help
>
VLM TechSubs wrote:
We are exploring the search (ctrl-f) function in Writer. We see how to
search for many things, but not yet for special characters (em dash,
ellipsis), invisible characters (end of paragraph and the like), character
styles, or for, say, markers of a given type.
You've lumped
Bob Estes wrote:
I have found a problem in formating input fields.
...
Does anyone have any ideas on how to correct this problem?
Yow. This task is a 'perfect storm' of things that Writer does badly.
Here's a sample with two different approaches:
- A two-column table with a calculation that ad
Ken Jolliffe wrote:
I have written a simple single cell array formula but when I drag it
down to copy to the cells below the relative reference does not change
...
Calc handles drag-fills of array formulas differently than normal
formulas. It expands the area covered by the original array for
Brian Barker wrote:
At 17:30 04/01/2009 -0800, Allan Abrahamse wrote:
How do I use openoffice writer to create a "directory" ...
I don't know that you can use Mail Merge in this way - at least, not
directly. Here is a slightly messy workaround, ...
I have also just used copy/paste to repli
Barbara Duprey wrote:
S Perry wrote:
This is also called in MS Word a "catalog." ...
OOo's mail merge has this kind of capability ... once you create a
table with the fields inserted from the database, and with the final
cell of the row ending with the "next record" field, it should fill in
Rogier van Vlissingen wrote:
Well, you got me experimenting, but this isn't it yet, but I did some
editing to clarify the problem:
...
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:29:31 -0500, Erik Remmelzwaal
...
I assume that your lookups return both corner coordinates of the array
as a string like "B2" and "C5"
Joe Smith wrote:
...
For a sample sheet, see
http://www.martnet.com/~jes/temp/range_select_example.ods
Or, editing your attached sample:
http://www.martnet.com/~jes/temp/EverGreen_576E165_ECR+evalV0.50_edit.ods
Brian Barker wrote:
...
Date and time values are stored in Calc as fractional numbers of days;
they display as they do only because of the cell formatting. ...
Along with Brian's nice explanation, you may want to bookmark
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Calc:_D
John Jason Jordan wrote:
...
To find the Unicode number for a character go to Insert > Special
Character and browse through all the characters until you find the one
you need. ...
You may want to take a look at the standard Character Map application;
it's under "Accessories" in the desktop men
Dotan Cohen wrote:
I have a page with two columns that I must physically print and cut
down the vertical middle. Therefore I would like to print a dot in the
horizontal center top of the page and another in the horizontal center
bottom of the page. I cannot find any facility for doing this in OOo
Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote:
...
So I expect that if I use sumif(A1:A5;"";B1:B5) should sum values in
B1:B5 only if the corresponding cells in column A is empty.
...
It is true that OOo3 has changed the way empty cells are handled, but
your situation is not a result of that (as far as I can tell
Ely Schoenfeld wrote:
...
I was already trying to fix the problem using ROUND in some places, like
multiplications and divisions, but I steel had differences in my calculation
(bigger than 0.01) at the end. Now I see that I have to add round to some
places that I didn't thought to.
...
You may
NoOp wrote:
...
I reckon that someone should file a bug. Search in the bug database
shows some issues back in 2003, but nothing recent that I can find.
A search of Writer issues with 'label page size' in the summary gave
these (and a few other similar ones):
Avery Letter Size 5160 Label Res
Michele Zarri wrote:
...
There are two ways to achieve this.
...
There is one other way: insert the repeated slide as a link
1) File > Save
2) Insert > File, then choose the same file as the current document
3) Select the slide you want to repeat from the list
4) Make sure the "Link" options i
andrew.m.g...@l-3com.com wrote:
I'm trying to install OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 without root access, but it
isn't working for me, not without some extreme hackery.
...
I am using CentOS 4.7. Root is not available to me.
Do you need to use rpm? This produced a runable OOo for me:
$ (cd $TARGET_DIR
Steve King wrote:
...
How do I change the settings so that it takes 12 clicks to move 1 foot?
The arrow keys have nothing to do with any scale or grid settings.
AFAIK, they move by a fixed #pixels and so move a distance that varies
with the inverse of the viewing zoom.
I believe you will f
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... moved to the "AutoFormat" option, and unchecked "While typing",
... This did not help.
...
OO is trying to be helpful, but is instead greatly hindering the
process of transcribing my thoughts. ...
If Format > AutoFormat > While typing is unchecked, and OOo is sti
Neil Redgate wrote:
...
Therefore I think 2.0.4 has lost the ability to recognise this keypad
combination.
...
Same here (2.0.4 on Fedora).
Filed as Issue 69468:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=69468
Doesn't seem to be much interest in even acknowledging it, much less
fixing
Steve King wrote:
...
How do I set the program to print an inch if I draw an inch?
What happens now?
At least for me, with 2.0.2 on Fedora Linux 5, if I draw a 3" square, I
get a 3" square on paper as well.
Make sure you have any scaling options turned off in both the OOo and
the system pr
Rick Bilonick wrote:
> I don't want to use MS Word at all but I do want my OOo documents
converted correctly to a .doc file that will be viewable in MS Word.
...
Any word processor document format is a poor choice for distribution:
they depend too much on external resources (fonts, locale, li
Christof Schmidt wrote:
... There is no way to alter the standard behaviour that
OpenOffice.org 2.0 has when setting the bullets style and other
formats of a list. ...
Yes.
There is an active issue that should resolve the default bullet size in
the near future: http://qa.openoffice.org/issue
Rick Bilonick wrote:
...
Unfortunately they would all choose to use MS Word so I'm not keen on
suggesting it. ...
Hey, I sympathize. Make your case for everyone using OOo; ask them to
pitch in and buy you MS Office if that's what they want to use, or a
better computer so you can run Windows v
Terry wrote:
Tony wrote:
Where is the best place, or what is the best way, to report typos etc.
in user_guide2_draft.pdf?
Probably, file an issue, the component being "documentation".
Where did you get the PDF file?
Right on the OOo manuals page
(http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals
Rick Bilonick wrote:
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When I specify "Symbol", the actual symbol displayed looks different
from both OpenSymbols and Standard Symbol L. When I do this, the symbols
show up OK in MS Word. If I use OpenSymbols or Standard Symbol L then
they don't show up in text.
It sounds like both OOo and Wo
In Issuezilla (http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi):
I would like to search for issues related to tab stops. If I search for
'tab' as a word/string, I get a gazillion hits that deal with 'table's.
I would like to specify that 'tab' must appear as a word by itself,
however neither of the
Rick Bilonick wrote:
When I specify "Symbol", the actual symbol displayed looks different
from both OpenSymbols and Standard Symbol L. When I do this, the symbols
show up OK in MS Word. If I use OpenSymbols or Standard Symbol L then
they don't show up in text.
Ok, I had access today to an XP sy
Rick Bilonick wrote:
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Thanks. But I don't understand what you mean by "unicode code points."
Could you give me a concrete example for one symbol?
Sorry, I meant to do that.
A "code point" is just the index assigned to a particular glyph. In
ASCII (and Unicode) the letter 'a' is assigned t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... If I create a table and set that property on the first row, when
I save the file as Rich Text Format (RTF), that property is lost. ...
Any suggestions?
Uh, don't use RTF?
Add a vote for Issue 55088
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=55088
Pramathesh Ambasta wrote:
I don't want toolbars to suddenly appear, sensing the context. I want
toolbars to be docked always (unless I choose to make them float). How
do I enable this?
Short answer: you can't.
You can inactivate a toolbar using View > Toolbars: if the toolbar has
no check-mar
mpkirby wrote:
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I want the text in a cell to be red if the value in it is more than 10% over
the value in the neighboring cell.
...
Suggestions? ...
First you have to define a named style. You can format a cell as you
want it to look, then use the Stylist (F11) to define a style from the
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