[users] Transfer data from spreadsheet

2011-01-20 Thread miriam raskin
Friends, I have been using OOO Writer with enthusiasm for years and don't know why I can't figure this out but I can't although I have read the relevant instructions too many times to count. I keep my work dates and hours on a Calc spreadsheet. When I try to transfer the data to a Writer doc

Re: [users] Writer Question

2010-09-09 Thread miriam raskin
Thanks ever so much. I would have bet all my assets that this option was checked. it's a good thing I don't bet. MSR On Sep 8, 2010, at 2:29 PM, RA Brown wrote: ** Please reply *only* to the list at users@openoffice.org ** miriam raskin wrote: Friends, I have lost access t

[users] Writer Question 2

2010-09-09 Thread miriam raskin
One more question. Every time I save a document, Stuffit Expander jumps out and wants me to specify a folder into which to expand something or other (which I neither want nor need, IMHO). What have I done to trigger this? or what can I do to put a stop to it? MSR Using OOO3.2.1. with Mac OS

[users] Writer Question

2010-09-08 Thread miriam raskin
Friends, I have lost access to what OOO Writer calls the "Apply style " I box. It is a rectangle that displays the current paragraph styles, similar in appearance to the boxes that show current font and font size in a menu bar. The Help section, as usual in my experience, describes what thi

[users] Exporting as PDF

2009-03-17 Thread miriam raskin
Friends, I am working with OOo3 and suddenly can't export as PDF. I don't get an error; the file is instanlty created but it is blank. I posed this question last week and someone on the list kindly suggested I switch to TrueType fonts to solve my problem. While I was figuring out what th

[users] Saving files

2009-01-27 Thread miriam raskin
I have been using OO2.4 for several months and like it very much. Now I have installed 3.0, and I am thrilled. It is such a gigantic leap forward, in appearance and in function. I have one problem. This version doesn't want to save files in ,odt format. If I try that, it goes into an endl

Re: [users] Response to Technical Writer request

2008-11-03 Thread Miriam Raskin
If you are asking for suggestions for the Help files, I have a few ideas: 1. Make the help more instructive, less definitional. It is no help at all to me to go looking for help with a function and find only what that function accomplishes. When, for example, I want to import data into