Re: [users] Default saved name now Documents?

2008-08-25 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 15:45 +0100, Harold Fuchs wrote: I'm using Windows XP Pro with OpenOffice 2.4.1 and this does *not* happen. When I save a new document there is *no* default name for it. There is a default *folder* My Documents into which the document will be saved but no default

[users] Default saved name now Documents?

2008-08-23 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
I have noticed since installing OOo 2.4.1 that whenever I open a new text document and then go to save it, there is now a default title of Documents pre-supplied for me. This not only wrong, it is irritating. Any thoughts? mhr

Re: [users] Auto spellcheck doesn't always work in 2.3.0 Writer

2007-11-15 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On Nov 15, 2007 12:02 PM, Joe Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably the language settings in that document are not set to the dictionaries you are using. Close - it turns out that there were apparently some parts of the document that did not have the language set on the characters

[users] Auto spellcheck doesn't always work in 2.3.0 Writer

2007-11-15 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
I have a few documents that I converted from text into .doc formats using Writer (now that I've figured out how to do some neat things, including some that even Word can't do, I don't use Word at all). All of them have autospellcheck enabled, but in one of them it doesn't work. I can misspell

[users] Problem with search wildcards

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
This could just be my own misunderstanding of something, or a feature that doesn't exist. I frequently use the writer's search to locate or replace items in my documents, but I recently tried to use a wildcard search and replace, and it failed miserably. I want to find all instances of the end

Re: [users] Re: Problem with search wildcards

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 10/30/07, Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OOo does not support (sub-patterns) in the replacement. As a workaround, run your search (Find All)--now all the end-of-sentence gaps are selected. Now do a new Find Replace, changing (one space) to(two spaces) and tick the More Options

Re: [users] Re: Problem with search wildcards

2007-10-30 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 10/30/07, Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 31/10/2007 00:17, Joe Smith wrote: snip You may also want to consider that the newer convention is to use only one space. I stopped using two spaces some time ago, but that's a style decision that's not universal I've only ever used

Re: [users] S**t program!

2007-10-28 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
Why is this thread still alive? mhr

Re: [users] Re: Thesaurus disabled in OOo 2.3.0

2007-10-16 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 10/16/07, Uwe Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there is a known problem selecting all text when the very first line is a table of contents (TOC), see http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=17949 Workaround: never insert a TOC at the very beginning of a document. To reset

[users] Re: Thesaurus disabled in OOo 2.3.0

2007-10-15 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
2007/10/15, Mark Hull-Richter wrote: On 10/15/07, Manfred J. Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (1) mouse click right in document (2) Format - Character Ah! Never saw that one before - it is blank (no language). However, if I were to change this, I'd want to change the whole

[users] Thesaurus disabled in OOo 2.3.0

2007-10-14 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
I just tried to the use thesaurus in OOo 2.3.0 Writer for the first time since I installed it, and the thesaurus is grayed out in the Tools-Languages-[grayed out] Thesaurus. This has only happened in one document I have (so far), but why there and not elsewhere I don't know. I have checked the

Re: [users] The Dreaded .docx format

2007-10-12 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 10/12/07, Harold Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith, I think I goofed. If you use an editor that *properly* supports regular expressions then what I should have told you to change was ^[]* without the quotes. That's less-than, circumflex, open-square-bracket, greater-than,

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-10-10 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
Can someone please explain: 1) what makes a message appear as [moderated] (I know that it means someone moderated the message, but why does/would that happen)? 2) What this YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE in the subject line (that buries the summary in my gmail) means and how it got there (and why

Re: [users] creating a copyright

2007-10-10 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 10/9/07, nicole baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to create a transparent copyright name label to apply to my pictures. Is this possible with this new program? If so how would I go about doing so? I have found the copyright symbol and have picjed several font styles that I

Re: [users] Pagination rant - additional

2007-10-06 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 10/6/07, Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:44:20 -0400 web kracked [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello web, This ment that I had to skip the page 1 of 7 on the first page, but start showing 2 or 7, etc. on the next page. You could cheat, by inserting a blank

Re: [users] Pagination rant

2007-10-06 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
I had a similar problem recently and found that only my odd numbered pages had headrs and footers. I opened the page styles, selected the header (and then also the footer) tab, clicked the same content left and right, and voila. Normally I don't have problems with this at all, but this

Re: [users] Re: [Bottom Post v Top Post] was Re: OpenOffice running in the background

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 10/3/07, Jim Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: clicking Reply does one of two things: either it marks everything there and puts the cursor on a blank line at the top; or it marks everything there and puts the cursor on a blank line at the bottom. No, wait, I think there is a third option,

Re: [users] Re: [Bottom Post v Top Post] was Re: OpenOffice running in the background

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
On 10/4/07, A.Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think your post belongs in this forum. A.Muller Technically, this entire thread does not belong in this forum. Thanks for pointing this out. Regards, mhr

[users] Can't set quickstart option

2007-10-02 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
I am running OOo 2.3.0 on CentOS 5.0 (latest updates) and I cannot set the quick start option at all - it is grayed out on my options-memory panel. Why is that or how do I set this option? It's a pain to have to restart the whole suite of common libraries every time I close the last OO window

[users] What does this mean?

2007-09-29 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
I recently upgraded my CentOS 5.0 OO installation to OO 2.3.0, and when I try to open a doc from the command line, I get this message: (soffice:24182): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: bluecurve, What module path is it looking in that it does not find my bluecurve