Re: [users] Section Header frustration

2008-12-02 Thread Naomi Kramer
I wonder if it's the differences in the concept of 'sections' between OOo and Word that's causing you trouble, here. In Word (from memory), sections can be used primarily to change page formats - header, footer etc. In OOo, sections are used to link in external documents, and provide

Re: [users] how to make captions' width same as body text width

2008-08-26 Thread Naomi Kramer
From memory - if you have Writer set to add an automatic caption (the 'Illustration n:' bit), then it'll add each image and table within an automatic frame. The frame is set to be as wide as the object it's enclosing. So, to fix your problem, you should be able to a) change the width of the

Re: [users] Blank spaces in sections - Please help!

2008-08-24 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Piers, Have you gotten any help with this? Something that's tripped me up a few times is quite a simple issue - having Keep with next paragraph, Orphan control, or Widow control set for a paragraph style can stuff up pagination in the way you describe. Feel free to send me the files to

Re: [users] Custom Page style applies to all

2008-08-04 Thread Naomi Kramer
Page style changes are created in page breaks. You can either create a manual page break for that last page, and set the page style as you do it, or apply a paragraph style to the first paragraph on the last page which sets a page break before, with page style of _. Sorry, my powers of

Re: [users] Same content, multiple formats: how?

2008-08-03 Thread Naomi Kramer
Master documents? Use a single child document, where all the text editing takes place. Three master documents, with required layouts. Use the same paragraph and character style names throughout, but change the styles as required in each master document. Make sense? - Naomi Laurent Duperval

Re: [users] Conditional Formatting

2008-07-22 Thread Naomi Kramer
Can you do it in a Calc spreadsheet, then insert said spreadsheet into the Writer document? Colene Merrilda wrote: I wanted to do this on a writer document. as Brian said. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Brian Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 16:54 22/07/2008 +0200, Colene Merrilda

[users] Trying to unsubscribe from the regular list

2008-05-21 Thread Matt Kramer
Does anyone know how to contact a human running this list? I've tried to get off the individual email list; the daily digest is much easier to digest. I am now subscribed to the digest version but I can't seem to stop the flood of individual emails. I've used both of the email addresses in using

[users] Problem with installing Open Office on MacBook Pro

2008-05-13 Thread Matt Kramer
Hi - I'm a clueless newbie; MS Word is crashing on my MB Pro; someone suggested using Open Office. When I try to open the app, I get a window that says I need X11 The OO website says: Installing X11 for Mac OSX 10.5 (Leopard) X11 comes pre-installed on Mac OSX 10.5, so you can install

Re: [users] Re: List styles

2008-05-11 Thread Naomi Kramer
McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: Why does the interface ALLOW me to set the Numbering Style of a paragraph style to itself?? Is there a legitimate use for that? I mean, other than to confuse Kevin? :-) Well, the Confuse Kevin Conspiracy Nuts will probably answer this too, but... I think maybe

Re: [users] template doesn't 'take'

2008-04-28 Thread Naomi Kramer
Go to Templates - Organise Find your template in the list Right-click on it and select Set As Default Template Howzat? - Naomi Kenn Goutal wrote: I'm using OO.o v2.0 on WinXP + SP2. I have defined a template, consisting primarily of a few new paragraph styles but also instantly recognizable

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

2008-04-07 Thread Naomi Kramer
Scott Meyers wrote: Is there a way to remove character characteristics from a character style? For example, given the character style I created from a selection above (Light Red + Georgia + 11pt), is there a way for me to remove the 11pt specification so that the resulting style is Light Red

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Character Style Questions

2008-04-07 Thread Naomi Kramer
Scott Meyers wrote: Thanks for the information, I didn't know about the hack the XML option. Regarding deleting character styles, the problem with this approach is that once the style is deleted, any text to which that style was applied reverts to the default. Combined with the fact that

Re: [users] Writer: Changing a Footnote's Symbol

2008-04-01 Thread Naomi Kramer
1. Right-click on the footnote reference (in the main text) and select Footnote... 2. Select the Character option button 3. Type x 4. Click OK. (hope that works for you) - Naomi Scott Meyers wrote: I can't find a way to change the symbol associated with a footnote. For

Re: [users] Page Styles and Imported Word Document

2008-02-19 Thread Naomi Kramer
Want to send me your document? I'm not sure what you're doing wrong. - Naomi GR wrote: Dan wrote: On Tuesday 19 February 2008 16:52:45 GR wrote: I'm using OO 2.3.0 on OpenSuse Linux 10.3 I've imported a four page Word document. Page one is supposed to be portrait, page two is

Re: [users] How can the same style look different.?

2008-02-04 Thread Naomi Kramer
Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 22:52:16 +0100 Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Mike, mike scott wrote (2-2-2008 18:23) I've been irritated for some weeks over this, having found no way to clear such character formatting (on one piece of text I ended up doing a cut and paste-special just

Re: [users] ? File contains link to other files

2008-01-28 Thread Naomi Kramer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple of files, produced by copying of other files, which on opening give the message: + File contains links to other files. + Should they be updated? + Yes/No It is unclear to me how this happened. I *do* know I want to get rid of this message. But how?

Re: [users] Writer: Categorizing Reference Names

2008-01-22 Thread Naomi Kramer
Scott Meyers wrote: Different references are for different things. Some are for figure numbers (i.e., Figure 4), some for citation numbers (i.e., Reference 11), some are for listing numbers, some for particular examples on particular pages, etc. Because the references are naturally

Re: [users] Writer: Categorizing Reference Names

2008-01-22 Thread Naomi Kramer
Kramer wrote: Scott Meyers wrote: Different references are for different things. Some are for figure numbers (i.e., Figure 4), some for citation numbers (i.e., Reference 11), some are for listing numbers, some for particular examples on particular pages, etc. Because the references

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Categorizing Reference Names

2008-01-22 Thread Naomi Kramer
Scott Meyers wrote: When I want to insert a reference to the figure showing the full inheritance diagram, I don't know which figure number it is, I just know it's the one I named full inheritance diagram. Does that make the problem clearer? Yup. What would be really nice would be if Writer

Re: [users] Writer: Renaming Text Body and Text Body indent para styles

2008-01-21 Thread Naomi Kramer
Scott Meyers wrote: If there's not, is there an easy way to copy them to new styles I name myself and then automatically change all paragraphs using the unchangable names to the corresponding new styles? For example, I want to use Body Para instead of Text Body. Can I somehow copy the

Re: [users] Writer: Qs about References

2008-01-21 Thread Naomi Kramer
Scott Meyers wrote: Suppose I've set references named R1 and R2 in my document, and I realize later that R1 and R2 are not the most informative names in the world, so I'd like to change them. How can I do that? They're displayed in the Navigator, but I can't find a way to edit them.

[users] Table Styles?

2008-01-06 Thread Naomi Kramer
I could really do with some help on this, ppl - it's a longterm problem that NEEDS a fix. I have a document with a gazillion tables. There are 3-4 different table types (ie, number of columns, column widths, data shown in them). Ideally, I should be able to handle these with table styles. The

Re: [users] Styles Master (and Extensions)

2007-12-18 Thread Naomi Kramer
Thanks! :-) One problem, though - it doesn't seem to be available when using master documents. I've come across this before when using extensions (functionality is available when a normal document is loaded, unavailable for a master document). Am I installing it incorrectly? Or is this

Re: [users] Export JPEG from OOo writer

2007-12-18 Thread Naomi Kramer
Take a screenshot, paste it into a new Draw file (or Paint), then use File - Export? The only other thing I can think of that MIGHT work is to put the text into a textbox in Writer, then copy and paste the textbox into Draw, then export. Hope that helps! - Naomi Philippe Faure wrote:

Re: [users] Styles Master

2007-12-17 Thread Naomi Kramer
Yes, BUT. The templates do work fine, OK? But if you open a document, and OOo tells you that the template has changed, would you like to update the styles? and you say no... the document is forever divorced from the template. People - if I'm wrong about this, if there's an easy fix, DEAR GOD

RE: [users] Master doc

2007-12-09 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Joe, First, I haven't seen your previous emails on the subject, so I might be telling you stuff you already know. Apologies if that happens. However, I use master documents a lot for large-scale projects, so I know some of the curly problems that occur :-) Best way to start a new page for

Re: [users] Need help with bullets and tabs

2007-09-11 Thread Naomi Kramer
You need to set up: - A paragraph style (eg. Numbering 1) - A list style (5th tab on the Styles Formatting window)... last tab contains the number type and second-last tab contains the right-align option. Then link the two from the paragraph style (in the numbering tab). Make sense? Yell

Re: [users] Problems with PDF export

2007-08-28 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Richard, Have you tried hitting the Save button? From memory, it's a slightly counter-intuitive double step of entering the PDF location and name, then seeing a screen which offers PDFing options. - Naomi Richard Davies wrote: I have access to two versions of Open Office version 2.0.4

Re: [users] Re: PDF and hanging - OOo 2.2

2007-07-30 Thread Naomi Kramer
Thanks to all who helped out with this problem. ExtendedPDF does do the trick, but with a few peccadilloes which cause me to hope that we don't need to use it too often! :) - Naomi - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] PDF and hanging - OOo 2.2

2007-07-17 Thread Naomi Kramer
I'm wondering if anyone else has had problems creating PDFs in the latest version (2.2 or 2.2.1 for that matter) of Writer? Windows XP. We have rather large (150-200 page) manuals - master documents which use variables. One contains lots of tables, one contains lots of images. When we export

Re: [users] Re: PDF and hanging - OOo 2.2

2007-07-17 Thread Naomi Kramer
wrote: On 07/17/2007 03:47 PM, Naomi Kramer wrote: I'm wondering if anyone else has had problems creating PDFs in the latest version (2.2 or 2.2.1 for that matter) of Writer? Windows XP. We have rather large (150-200 page) manuals - master documents which use variables. One contains lots

Re: [users] Hide header on OOo Writer

2007-07-10 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Sam, This is NOT what you asked for, but it might be close enough... this is what I would do: - create a page style for the first page of a chapter (with header turned off), and set the Next Style to your usual page style - set a 'page break before' with the new page style in the chapter

RE: [users] Different page numbers

2007-06-29 Thread Naomi Kramer
It sounds right to me. There are only 2 things I can think of that might be causing the problem: 1. Using Only Right or Only Left page settings? 2. You've set the 'Next Style' to something other than the default? Ummm... about all I can suggest if those don't help, is to create two more page

Re: [users] [writer] master- and sub-documents, templates and styles: Is there an easier way?

2007-06-26 Thread Naomi Kramer
Have a look at File - Templates - Organize Double-click on a folder on the left to view the names of any templates in it. Double-click on a template to see the names of all styles (tip: they're ordered by style type). Double-click on an open document on the right to see the names of all

Re: [users] Can't properly apply styles

2007-05-28 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi John, This usually happens to me when I've applied paragraph formatting to the text, instead of to the style. The paragraph formatting on the text takes precedence, and applying 'Default' (which in my opinion should work) doesn't help. Sometimes changing to another style (eg Text body)

[users] Large spreadsheets

2007-02-05 Thread Will Kramer
Is it practical to have a spreadsheet with more than say a million cells (on a fast computer with 256 mb of ram)? I have 3 rows by 40 columns of data that I want to do a couple of calculations for on each row and then sort the rows. Is one of calc, gnumeric, excel more efficient at this?

[users] Style-based extract (as in ODF spec).

2007-01-10 Thread Rob Kramer
Hi all, When I was reading through the ODF specs [1], I noticed how they embedded the actual Relax-NG scheme inside the document. This is called Literate Programming, I learned from google. In this case, all text marked with the RelaxNG style is extracted somehow, to form the final schema file.

Re: [users] Hidden Paragraphs and Master Documents

2006-12-05 Thread Naomi Kramer
John P. Fisher wrote: Naomi I'd like to piggyback on your question, because I am guessing my problem is related... I cannot get variables to work with conditional text at all. Your method might also work for me? I am curious what you CAN get to work? Here's what I HAVE been doing successfully:

Re: [users] Header changing

2006-12-03 Thread Naomi Kramer
To insert the chapter heading, press Ctrl-F2, click on the Document tab, select Chapter from the Type list, select Chapter name from the Format list, click on Insert. As long as you're using the Heading 1 style for your chapter headings, that should work OK. Give us/me a yell if it doesn't. -

Re: [users] [moderated] unable to download

2006-11-23 Thread Naomi Kramer
Yet another option is to make sure you have a download program which supports resuming - which means it can stop partway through a file and, whenever it's connected again, can take up where it left off (instead of restarting the whole download). I have very little knowledge of Mac software, so

Re: [users] alternating headers on pages

2006-11-15 Thread Naomi Kramer
Probably a page style setting. 1. Click on a page which has the problem. 2. Press F11 to see the Styles and Formatting window. 3. Click on the fourth icon along the top of the window (looks like a sheet of paper with top right corner folded down). 4. See which page style is selected

Re: [users] Outlining with OO

2006-11-09 Thread Naomi Kramer
application that does outlines will be usable in OO that functions at least as good as M $? Workarounds with formatting and such as suggested in the archived mailings is not an option for serious work. I have been using OO with outline formatting as suggested by Naomi Kramer (http

Re: [users] outlines in Writer

2006-10-12 Thread Naomi Kramer
It's a multi-step process (at least, when you do it right! ;-) ). First, create a list style (NOT a paragraph style). In the Styles and Formatting window (press F11 to view it if it isn't already onscreen), it's the fifth style type from the left (the icons are at the top of the window). To

Re: [users] Template for Master Document?

2006-10-10 Thread Naomi Kramer
How are you creating the new master document? Theoretically, if you create a new text document and then select File - Send - Create Master Document, you should be fine. - Naomi Charlie Kelly wrote: I've changed the default template and the results are visible when I create a new text

Re: [users] Re: Template for Master Document?

2006-10-10 Thread Naomi Kramer
Ah-ha... I knew there was another way of doing it, couldn't remember what it was. But I have vague memories of learning to do it the way I do because the other had a reputation for being dodgy. Glad I could help. - Naomi Charlie Kelly wrote: Hi Naomi, Thanks. That worked. I had been

Re: [users] Printing TOC

2006-10-04 Thread Naomi Kramer
Have you tried Tools - Update - Update All ? (So it's not automatic on printing, but it's a close 2nd) Warning: can stuff up pagination slightly on large documents - probably only if you have 2 reference tables consecutively (eg TOC followed by Table of Figures). - Naomi Lívio Cipriano

Re: [users] Aligning paragraph styles to mirrored margins

2006-10-02 Thread Naomi Kramer
Paul, I'm assuming you mean either right- or left-aligned paragraphs, depending on which is the outside margin. Yes? The short answer is - no, not that I'm aware of. I can't think of any workaround to do that, except for the obvious 2-paragraph-styles one (ick). - Naomi Paul_B wrote: Is

Re: [users] Unique footer on last page of document

2006-09-18 Thread Naomi Kramer
Not that I know of, Mark. Sorry. :-/ You're getting a bit more into desktop publishing territory there than word processing... something like InDesign would do it easily, but I don't think it's been a priority for OOo. Hmmm... not possible to just have the filename/path at the end of the

Re: [users] Writer

2006-09-03 Thread Naomi Kramer
I've noticed this occasionally with big Word documents... although usually ones with pictures. Do you have many styles in the document? Tables? How quickly does Writer open the document once you've saved it as an odt? - Naomi yocto wrote: yeap excuse me i forget mention the OS: ok I try to

[users] Anfrage

2006-08-30 Thread Gerda Kramer
Sehr geehrte Damen u. Herren, beigefügt übersende ich Ihnen ein Schreiben und hoffe, daraufhin von Ihnen zu hören. Mit frdl. Grüßen Gerda Kramer---BeginMessage--- Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren, seit einiger Zeit benütze ich das Programm OpenOffice.org 1.1.4. Leider fehlt mir dazu eine

Re: [users] Master documents.?

2006-08-29 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi James, A Master Document is basically a collection of 'child' documents, with arrangement and maybe some extra text or a table of contents/index. The advantage comes when you've got two similar documents that need to be kept up-to-date... you can put all the information in child documents

[users] Hidden Paragraphs and Master Documents

2006-08-28 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi all, I've trawled through the archives for a few pages, but didn't find this exact issue in a fairly recent build. Has anyone else had trouble using hidden paragraphs in master documents? OOo Writer 2.0.3? Windows XP? The way I've been doing it is: - put variable at start of master

Re: [users] Hidden Paragraphs and Master Documents

2006-08-28 Thread Naomi Kramer
Naomi Kramer wrote: * I discovered that while hidden paragraphs based on variables are dodgy, hidden paragraphs based on user fields actually WORK! So this seems like a possible workaround for anyone suffering from similar problems. My only issue is, it seems impossible

[users] Hidden Paragraphs and Numbering

2006-08-28 Thread Naomi Kramer
Yes, ANOTHER 'hidden paragraphs' question... (I save them up and try to solve the hard ones at the end of each project... these are just the ones that have me stymied) I have a list of instructions, one or two of which aren't applicable in certain situations. So what I'd LIKE to do is: 1.

Re: [users] Writer and Indexing

2006-08-03 Thread Naomi Kramer
I think I fixed THAT problem. Master document, with index entries in various child documents. If you have a parent AND child ref in a child document, problem disappears. Yeesh :-) - Naomi Naomi Kramer wrote: ARGH! I'm having a number of problems with indexing. The major problem

Re: [users] Problems losing figures with Writer

2006-07-12 Thread Naomi Kramer
Are you linking or inserting them? - Naomi Michael Winter wrote: Can anybody help me avoid losing/corrupting pictures when saving and reopening writer files? I'm trying to use pictures with captions and want to be able to use them with Ooo2.0.3 and MS Word. It's a pain having to reinsert

Re: [users] Losing all pictures when converting from .odt to .do

2006-06-07 Thread Naomi Kramer
Have you tried linking instead of embedding? I have a vague memory of having a similar problem with a previous beta version when I used embedded images. - Naomi RICHARD wrote: I'm using OOo version 2.0.1.1 on Fedora Core 4 with all the latest patches. I create a document with pictures from

Re: [users] I thought i had saved a word document in open office as a pdf and now it is unreadable and im in a panic

2006-06-07 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Sarah, Do you have a pdf reader on your machine? What program did you open the pdf in? - Naomi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help, I have spent a day preparing a letter using word, then opened it in Open Office and exported it as a pdf file. I must have done something drastically wrong

Re: [users] Master Document Loses The Different Page Styles

2006-06-05 Thread Naomi Kramer
The child document has the assorted page styles. When you enter them in the Master Document, the page style is Portrait, only. That's your problem right there. The page styles need to be set in the Master document. To fix this, ensure that each page style change occurs with a new child

Re: [users] links in pdfs

2006-06-04 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Bill, You may need to have the *Tagged PDF* checkbox ticked (in the PDF options screen) to enable clickable links in a pdf. - Naomi Mr. William L. Culp wrote: Hello I am trying to insert links in Writer that work once it is exported as a pdf. Is that possible? Thanks Bill Culp

Re: [users] Master Document Loses The Different Page Styles

2006-06-04 Thread Naomi Kramer
Are the page styles in the master document or the child documents? - Naomi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to help someone who had different Page Styles such as Landscape, Two Columns or more. When the Master Document is done, the Page Styles are gone. All the pages become Portrait

Re: [users] How to create student/trainer manuals with Writer

2006-06-01 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Laurent, You'll need Hidden Text and Hidden Paragraphs. Press Ctrl-F2 to have a look at the options. Basically, you need to create a variable and put it at the start of the document - I'd probably call it 'trainer'. I'd set 'trainer' to YES for the trainer version of the manual, and NO for

Re: [users] Alphabetical Index not in Table of Contents

2006-05-31 Thread Naomi Kramer
Good to hear that it worked for you, Paul! :-) - Naomi Paul D. Mirowsky wrote: Thank you Naomi Works like a charm. Since my original posting, I sent this in as an issue. I hope you don't mind if I forward you e-mail to assist. Thank you Paul Naomi Kramer wrote: Hi Paul

Re: [users] Alphabetical Index not in Table of Contents

2006-05-28 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Paul, The Alphabetical Index uses a non-standard-heading paragraph style for its heading... like the TOC does. The way to get it in the TOC is: 1. Right-click on the TOC and select Edit Index/Table 2. Click on the Index/Table tab 3. In the Create From area, tick the Additional Styles

Re: [users] I am using version 2.0 of OpenOffice.org. My problem is : business use.

2006-05-23 Thread Naomi Kramer
Yes! :-) - Naomi Louis Frischknecht wrote: Is the license free for business use too? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] no pagenumber on first page

2006-05-23 Thread Naomi Kramer
It's not overly intuitive, this... although quite powerful once you work it out. You need two different page styles. Set the page style for the first page... manually insert a page break after whatever text you have on the first page, and in the page break insert screen, set the page style to

Re: [users] Keyboard shortcut for Applying Styles?

2006-05-16 Thread Naomi Kramer
Alex, Darn. All I can suggest is: * Go through all the categories searching, or * If 'OpenOffice.org Macros' are available in that list, create a macro for each style..? * Hope that a Mac user wanders into the discussion. - Naomi Alex Zachopoulos wrote: Hi Naomi! Well, I had

Re: [users] I guess you have a way to download projects that noe might be interested in, BUT!

2006-05-01 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Frank, First, this is a Users list. Full of people who use OpenOffice.org. We're not OpenOffice. We don't control the website. Second, why are you complaining to OpenOffice (or trying to) about a third-party product that may well integrate with OpenOffice.org, but is created and made

[users] OOo 2.0.1, master documents and spoolsv process?

2006-04-20 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi all, I'm hoping someone can help me out with this one - I suspect it's more of a Windows problem than a OOo problem, but I'm a little baffled. Every time I open a master document, it asks whether to update child docs. Great. I say yes. It then starts loading them... and in the process

Re: [users] OOo 2.0.1, master documents and spoolsv process?

2006-04-20 Thread Naomi Kramer
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Which version of OOo are you using? 2.0.1 as per the Subject line :-) I'm not sure any of my comments will be of any help, but here goes I also use WinXP, SP2. Master docs take quite awhile to load up on my machine, but more like 5 minutes (depending on

Re: [users] Microsoft says Open Office.org 10 years behind

2006-03-08 Thread Naomi Kramer
Lars D. Noodén wrote: Cool! Naomi, do you have a summary online somewhere? A comparison of products is rather uncommon these days and it would be very useful to have the URL. I do have the comparison tests I ran, and the results (turns out I tested with two versions of OOo, not two

Re: [users] Microsoft says Open Office.org 10 years behind

2006-03-07 Thread Naomi Kramer
Not wanting to debate, here, but thought I'd throw some info in... I write manuals for a living. Last year, I sat down and tested 4 products - 2 MSO versions, WordPerfect, and OOo 2 BETA. For our needs - relatively complex word-processing with export to PDF - OOo (even in beta form) finished a

Re: [users] Adding hyperlinks to TOC

2006-02-06 Thread Naomi Kramer
What options do you get? - Naomi Pete Holsberg wrote: I'm trying to follow the directions that say to right-click in the TOC and select Edit Index/Table. However, Edit Index/Table is not an entry in the pop-up menu. Do I have something configured wrong? OO build number is 8990. Windows XP

Re: [users] Adding hyperlinks to TOC

2006-02-06 Thread Naomi Kramer
Looks as though it's assuming it's text, not a TOC. What's the damage if you delete the TOC and start again? Default Formatting - Font Size Style Alignment Line Spacing Character Paragraph Page Numbering/Bullets Case/Character - Edit Paragraph Style

Re: [users] Re: [Spam] Re: [users] Do not want openoffice to be default program thatopens or attaches files. How do I change back to Microsoft word as mydefault program?

2006-01-29 Thread Naomi Kramer
Thomas W. Cranston wrote: Dave Barton wrote: Please read: http://user-faq.openoffice.org/faq/ar01s04.html#FILE-ASSOCIATIONS I think the message When you install Open Office, it asks you whether you want to associate MS Office files with Open Office. In order to not associate these MS

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice Basic manual?

2006-01-12 Thread Naomi Kramer
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Yes, the free chapter is very basic. The draw package is more indepth and that is also free. THe rest of the content is not free Sorry, I wasn't implying that the whole thing was way too basic. I might see if I can thumbscrew some money out of our company

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice Basic manual?

2006-01-11 Thread Naomi Kramer
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: If you are just getting started, chapter one from my published book is also available as a free download from the publisher... My free macro document, of course, is free and full of examples. Thanks, Andrew :-) Too basic for my needs, but I'm impressed by the

[users] OpenOffice Basic manual?

2006-01-10 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi ppl, Can someone please take pity on someone whose brain is still scrambled after Christmas holidays, and tell me - where do I find a reference manual for the commands/parameters etc used for OpenOffice? I really need to start utilising macros in my work, and it's got me a little stumped.

Re: [users] Need help getting data into Avery labels

2005-12-21 Thread Naomi Kramer
OK, bleeding obvious and probably not worth asking... Did you try a print preview or sample print? Do the field names still show instead? I set up a mysql database with address information. I want to create some mailing labels. However, every time I set them up, all I get is the database

Re: [users] Spelling and Header frustration

2005-12-12 Thread Naomi Kramer
Simon wrote: Need help as these two frustrations keep sending me back to WORD! Poor thing :-) Nah, seriously, I remember the feeling. I am running OO2.0 on Windows XP Me too. 1. For a while now and over a couple of versions the Spell Checker has been most unreliable. It sometimes

Re: [users] Spelling and Header frustration

2005-12-12 Thread Naomi Kramer
Best I can suggest - read http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/0200WG-WriterGuide.pdf , chapter 2, choosing language settings. - Naomi OK, have the First Page setup worked out, thanks. In tools options language settings my user interface is 'default' as the only other

Re: [users] Section deletion or avoidance?

2005-11-16 Thread Naomi Kramer
Have you tried this? 1. Choose *Format - Sections* vnd.sun.star.help://swriter/text/swriter/01/0217.xhp?Language=en-USSystem=WINUseDB=no. 2. In the *Section *list, click the section you want to modify. 3. Do one of the following: * To convert a

Re: [users] Section deletion or avoidance?

2005-11-16 Thread Naomi Kramer
Ew. Apologies for the yucky formatting of previous email. Have you tried this? 1. Choose *Format - Sections* - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Open Office for Apple Computers?

2005-10-23 Thread Philip Kramer
Will there be an Open Office version for the MAC OS? Thanks! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] odt file format.

2005-10-23 Thread Naomi Kramer
There's a few different options I can think of: * You could update to OOo 2.0, which will mean you can share documents very easily * You could update to OOo 1.1.5, which can read .odt files (right, people? but if he's using features not available in 1.1.5, his documents

Re: [users] bloody rpm's only

2005-10-21 Thread Naomi Kramer
Rodney D. Myers wrote: Well, thanks for the fun, but looks like it's time to move Abi-Word, since OO is determined to use RPM's from this point forward. Now to get out off of the list. I use to recommend OO over everything else. Not now Eh? I'm assuming you're wanting a sympathetic audience

[users] Memory... OW

2005-10-21 Thread Naomi Kramer
Is it just me, or does the new OOo 2.0 use nasty amounts of memory under Windows? I've been using the betas for months... but I've never seen the memory usage hit 220Mb as soon as I open a particular document (in beta versions, it used around 70-80Mb on first opening). A blank document, on the

Re: [users] Style References from Word

2005-10-17 Thread Naomi Kramer
CPHennessy wrote: CPH - why does that matter? I thought style ref's didn't work in OOo, period. Don't they need to be converted (manually) to chapter refs instead? (apologies if I'm completely misled.. :) ) Hi Naomi Sorry, I did not know what a style reference was and assumed that it was no

Re: [users] footers

2005-10-10 Thread Naomi Kramer
How can I set up a footer so that the name of the memorandum is against the left margin and the page number is flush-right? Setting the tabstops in the footer comes to mind as a solution. ... as long as Dennis knows that you can set a tab to be right-aligned! :-) Set a tab by putting

Re: [users] Export to XHTML Loses Embedded JPG Images

2005-10-09 Thread Naomi Kramer
I'm sure someone else can give you a better answer, but in the meantime... have you tried linking them, rather than embedding? I used to have troubles galore with MS Word and linked images, but OOo Writer seems to behave better when images are linked, rather than embedded. (NOTE: Could just

Re: [users] No need to register, we just keep pestering you ...

2005-10-09 Thread Naomi Kramer
I don't think it's Every time you install - I think it's every time he start the program. It's not supposed to work like that. Unless I've totally misread the OP (which is possible), I think I can fully understand his frustration. -Chad Smith I wonder if he's set the registration option to

Re: [users] Style References from Word

2005-10-05 Thread Naomi Kramer
CPHennessy wrote: What version of OpenOffice.org are you using ? What version of MSWord was last used on the file ? CPH - why does that matter? I thought style ref's didn't work in OOo, period. Don't they need to be converted (manually) to chapter refs instead? (apologies if I'm completely

Re: [users] FW: 6500/4900 Task list for next 3 weeks

2005-09-14 Thread Naomi Kramer
RDMcBride wrote: Thank you, Naomi and CPH; You're welcome :-) Your patience in dealing with underfed PC users as myself is extraordinary. When I have time, I like to help out people who make polite requests for help. Some days they seem to be a dying breed... When you say, Word

Re: [users] What's going on with PDF?

2005-09-13 Thread Naomi Kramer
Just a quick note re: OOo and PDF... it creates mostly 'universally' readable PDFs (some people seem to have trouble, esp. on Macs). Previous versions of the 2.0 beta builds create a PDF that may not be writable by Adobe Acrobat. ie, you can create the PDF, you can read the PDF, but you might

Re: [users] FW: 6500/4900 Task list for next 3 weeks

2005-09-13 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Richard, Different programs use different formats to create the look of a document or spreadsheet or whatever. The 'file type' CPH mentioned is a (relatively) technical term for just that - eg. Word uses a 'doc' file type, and files using that format have a '.doc' extension after the file

Re: [users] copy an oo ss to an oo writer file

2005-09-05 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi John, Have you tried using Paste as Special (ctrl-shift-v)? That should allow you to paste as plain text. - Naomi I have a calc sheet with numbers and text, no formulas (chart of accounts). I would like to save it as a text file to be edited by oo writer. There is a help index item

Re: [users] copy an oo ss to an oo writer file

2005-09-05 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hmmm. So you're using 1.1.4? I'm using the 2.0 beta builds of OOo, so sometimes I'll suggest functionality that isn't available in earlier versions - apologies if I stuff people up by doing so. So, John... what format did you select to paste as? Plain text? Sounds peculiar :-/ If you

Re: [users] Captions in Openoffice 2.0

2005-08-24 Thread Naomi Kramer
Add a caption, which should automatically create a frame for the picture. Move the picture down (in the frame) 0.5cm or so. Voila - caption above picture. -Naomi While trying to use Captions in an openoffice 2.0 document, I realised that openoffice allows you to place caption of a picture

Re: [users] page numbering [moderated]

2005-07-27 Thread Naomi Kramer
Hi Nathan, If you right-click on a page number, then select Fields from the context menu, you should be able to enter a value into the Offset field... which will increase your page numbers by that number. Eg. Offset = 20, first page should be page 21. My apologies if this doesn't work, as

Re: [users] Page numbering

2005-07-13 Thread Naomi Kramer
Fred A. Miller wrote: I'm not confused, I'd read it more than once. What I DON'T want is any page number on page 1, but want numbering to START on page two with the number 2. Thanks, Fred You need to use Page Styles. Once you get used to the idea, it's very easy. You need two page

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