Re: [users] Recent Documents

2010-05-29 Thread Brian Barker
At 07:15 28/05/2010 -0500, Vic Dura wrote: Using OO v3.2 on WinXP, is there any way to increase the number of Recent Documents under the File menu? My installation seems to max out at 10. Is it possible to increase that? This doesn't answer your question, but may be a useful alternative: o

Re: [users] Recent Documents

2010-05-29 Thread Vic Dura
On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:56:00 +0100, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote Re Re: [users] Recent Documents: At 07:15 28/05/2010 -0500, Vic Dura wrote: Using OO v3.2 on WinXP, is there any way to increase the number of Recent Documents under the File menu? My installation seems to max

Re: [users] Recent Documents

2010-05-29 Thread James Wilde
On May 29, 2010, at 15:24 , Vic Dura wrote: On Sat, 29 May 2010 13:56:00 +0100, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote Re Re: [users] Recent Documents: This doesn't answer your question, but may be a useful alternative: o Open a text document. o Click the down-arrow at the right

[users] Recent Documents

2010-05-28 Thread Vic Dura
Using OO v3.2 on WinXP, is there any way to increase the number of Recent Documents under the File menu? My installation seems to max out at 10. Is it possible to increase that? Thanks, -- At first they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they fight you, then you win.

Re: [users] Recent Documents

2010-05-28 Thread David B Teague
On 5/28/2010 8:15 AM, Vic Dura wrote: Using OO v3.2 on WinXP, is there any way to increase the number of Recent Documents under the File menu? My installation seems to max out at 10. Is it possible to increase that? Thanks, At http://www.ooomacros.org/user.php#100070 there is a Draw macro

Re: [users] Recent Documents

2010-05-28 Thread Vic Dura
On Fri, 28 May 2010 09:29:14 -0400, David B Teague davidbtea...@verizon.net wrote Re Re: [users] Recent Documents: On 5/28/2010 8:15 AM, Vic Dura wrote: Using OO v3.2 on WinXP, is there any way to increase the number of Recent Documents under the File menu? My installation seems to max out

Re: [users] recent documents in writer

2009-06-04 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 01:12, John D Taylor III wrote: Thanks Brian, I tried what you suggested.  I tried opening and saving documents in both writer, and Calc. I still have the same results, in recent documents is is no documents.  Thanks for trying. John D. Taylor III The list of the

Re: [users] recent documents in writer

2009-06-04 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:34 04/06/2009 +0200, Manfred J. Krause wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 01:12, John D Taylor III wrote: Thanks Brian, I tried what you suggested. Â I tried opening and saving documents in both writer, and Calc. I still have the same results, in recent documents is is no documents. Â Thanks

Re: [users] recent documents in writer

2009-06-04 Thread John D Taylor III
Thanks to everyone for your help in the end I went into the history's file and changed the extension to old. That did it, it's working fine now. Once again, thanks everyone John John D Taylor III wrote: Writer 3.10 is not keeping track of the recent documents. Is there something that I am

Re: [users] recent documents in writer

2009-06-04 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi, On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:12, Brian Barker wrote: At 09:34 04/06/2009 +0200, Manfred J. Krause wrote: On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 01:12, John D Taylor III wrote: Thanks Brian, [...] I'd done some more digging and was going to suggest trying the same trick with Histories.xcu, but was

[users] recent documents in writer

2009-06-03 Thread John D Taylor III
Writer 3.10 is not keeping track of the recent documents. Is there something that I am supposed to turn on? Is anyone else having this trouble?I don't know when the problem started, I just know that when I opened the writer this last seven or eight times there were no recent documents and

Re: [users] recent documents in writer

2009-06-03 Thread James Knott
John D Taylor III wrote: Writer 3.10 is not keeping track of the recent documents. Is there something that I am supposed to turn on? Is anyone else having this trouble?I don't know when the problem started, I just know that when I opened the writer this last seven or eight times there were

Re: [users] recent documents in writer

2009-06-03 Thread John D Taylor III
Sorry, I forgot about that. I running windows XP. James Knott wrote: John D Taylor III wrote: Writer 3.10 is not keeping track of the recent documents. Is there something that I am supposed to turn on? Is anyone else having this trouble?I don't know when the problem started, I just know

Re: [users] recent documents in writer

2009-06-03 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:04 03/06/2009 -0400, John D Taylor III wrote: Writer 3.10 is not keeping track of the recent documents. Is there something that I am supposed to turn on? Is anyone else having this trouble? I don't know when the problem started, I just know that when I opened the writer this last seven

Re: [users] recent documents in writer

2009-06-03 Thread John D Taylor III
Thanks Brian, I tried what you suggested. I tried opening and saving documents in both writer, and Calc. I still have the same results, in recent documents is is no documents. Thanks for trying. John D. Taylor III Brian Barker wrote: At 16:04 03/06/2009 -0400, John D Taylor III wrote:

Re: [users] recent documents in writer

2009-06-03 Thread JOE Conner
John D Taylor III wrote: Thanks Brian, I tried what you suggested. I tried opening and saving documents in both writer, and Calc. I still have the same results, in recent documents is is no documents. Thanks for trying. John D. Taylor III Brian Barker wrote: At 16:04 03/06/2009 -0400,

Re: [users] recent documents in writer

2009-06-03 Thread JOE Conner
JOE Conner wrote: John D Taylor III wrote: Thanks Brian, I tried what you suggested. I tried opening and saving documents in both writer, and Calc. I still have the same results, in recent documents is is no documents. Thanks for trying. John D. Taylor III Brian Barker wrote: At 16:04

Re: [users] Recent Documents

2008-02-11 Thread TomW
John R. Sowden wrote: It would be nice if when one clicked on a file that did not exist (error message) that one migh receive a pop-up window asking if you wish to delete this filoe from the recent documents list. I could find no reference in the help system regarding getting rid of the

[users] Recent Documents

2008-02-11 Thread John R. Sowden
It would be nice if when one clicked on a file that did not exist (error message) that one migh receive a pop-up window asking if you wish to delete this filoe from the recent documents list. I could find no reference in the help system regarding getting rid of the duds, nor in 'options' or

Re: [users] Recent Documents List

2008-01-24 Thread Lindsay Graham
- Original Message - From: Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 10:40 PM Subject: Re: [users] Recent Documents List On Thursday 10 January 2008 03:52:27 Lindsay Graham wrote: snip Sorry for delay in responding. But more importantly

Re: [users] Recent Documents List

2008-01-24 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:05:17 +1100 Lindsay Graham wrote: But more importantly, the list shows all recently opened OO documents -- I find this a real pain, and I'd prefer to have a list of only recently opened Calc docs if I'm in Calc, and only recent Writer docs if I'm in Writer. Is

[users] Recent Documents List

2008-01-10 Thread Lindsay Graham
I'm just starting to use Open Office and the learning curve is pretty long, if not steep. My first question is, in the scheme of things, probably a pretty minor one, but I'll start here. It's a pity that the Recent Documents List (under the File menu) is not at the bottom as in (dare I say

Re: [users] Recent Documents List

2008-01-10 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Lindsay Graham wrote: I'm just starting to use Open Office and the learning curve is pretty long, if not steep. keep on - see http://documentation.openoffice.org for a lot of helpful documentation. My first question is, in the scheme of things, probably a pretty minor one, but I'll

Re: [users] Recent Documents List

2008-01-10 Thread Dan
On Thursday 10 January 2008 03:52:27 Lindsay Graham wrote: I'm just starting to use Open Office and the learning curve is pretty long, if not steep. My first question is, in the scheme of things, probably a pretty minor one, but I'll start here. It's a pity that the Recent Documents List

[users] Recent documents

2007-08-03 Thread Joyce McClure
Under file, recent documents, I have a list of 10. Two are not valid and I would like to delete them. A right click brings the same message as the left click which is that there is no such file. I have done a lot of hit and miss experimenting and obviously messed up at least a couple of

Re: [users] Recent documents

2007-08-03 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi Joyce, Joyce McClure wrote: Under file, recent documents, I have a list of 10. Two are not valid and I would like to delete them. A right click brings the same message as the left click which is that there is no such file. I have done a lot of hit and miss experimenting and obviously

Re: [users] Recent documents

2007-08-03 Thread Joyce McClure
: [users] Recent documents Hi Joyce, Joyce McClure wrote: Under file, recent documents, I have a list of 10. Two are not valid and I would like to delete them. A right click brings the same message as the left click which is that there is no such file. I have done a lot of hit and miss

Re: [users] Recent documents

2007-08-03 Thread Manfred J. Krause
Hi Joyce, Joyce McClure wrote: Wow!!! I think I will keep them! Or add some more and push them off the end of the list as Brian suggested. Thanks you for you reply! Joyce Thanks for your feedback. :-) Sorry, I didn't know about these suggestions by Brian ... but it sounds suggestive ...

Re: [users] recent documents

2006-09-24 Thread Paul
I think it is a little problematic managing the recently used list within OOo, however there is a macro (located below) which can assist with this : http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/downloads.htm#RecentFilesList /paul On 9/23/06, G Dufun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, how do I tell open office

Re: [users] recent documents

2006-09-24 Thread James McKenzie
Paul as useful as this link is, this may not answer Mr/Ms Dufun's original post. The RecentFilesList macro only increases or decreases the number of items in the list. In order to answer this question further, what exactly is it that you want to with the Recent Documents list? Do you want to

Re: [users] recent documents

2006-09-24 Thread Paul
The RecentFilesList macro only increases or decreases the number of items in the list. ... and if, using the macro, you set the number to zero, the end result will be to not list Recent Documents Admittedly I've not tried this out myself so could be wrong here. Seemed to be the easiest answer

[users] recent documents

2006-09-23 Thread G Dufun
hi, how do I tell open office writer to not list Recent Documents ? thank you - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Recent Documents list

2006-08-14 Thread Cor Nouws
Richard Detwiler wrote: A few days ago, I wrote that one particular file did not show up on the list of Recent Documents (accessed by File Recent Documents). I've been able to define this problem a little better. It's not just one file, it's happening on all of my files. Any file that I now

[users] Recent Documents list

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Detwiler
A few days ago, I wrote that one particular file did not show up on the list of Recent Documents (accessed by File Recent Documents). I've been able to define this problem a little better. It's not just one file, it's happening on all of my files. Any file that I now open will show up at the

Re: [users] Recent Documents list

2006-07-20 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:01 -0400, Richard Detwiler wrote: A few days ago, I wrote that one particular file did not show up on the list of Recent Documents (accessed by File Recent Documents). I've been able to define this problem a little better. It's not just one file, it's happening on

Re: [users] Recent Documents list

2006-07-20 Thread Richard Detwiler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:01 -0400, Richard Detwiler wrote: A few days ago, I wrote that one particular file did not show up on the list of Recent Documents (accessed by File Recent Documents). I've been able to define this problem a little better. It's not just

Re: [users] Recent Documents list

2006-07-20 Thread Howard Coles Jr.
On Thursday 20 July 2006 7:35 am, Richard Detwiler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 08:01 -0400, Richard Detwiler wrote: A few days ago, I wrote that one particular file did not show up on the list of Recent Documents (accessed by File Recent Documents). I've been

[users] Recent Documents list acting oddly

2006-07-18 Thread Richard Detwiler
In the whole scheme of things, this is fairly trivial, but it's annoying (and puzzling), so I thought I'd ask to see if anyone had any ideas. There's one particular Calc file, which I've had reason to access frequently lately, which disappears from the list of Recent Documents (File Recent

Re: [users] Recent Documents list acting oddly

2006-07-18 Thread AHodgett
In a message dated 18/07/2006 12:27:27 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the whole scheme of things, this is fairly trivial, but it's annoying (and puzzling), so I thought I'd ask to see if anyone had any ideas. There's one particular Calc file, which I've had reason to

Re: [users] Recent Documents list acting oddly

2006-07-18 Thread Andy Pepperdine
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 12:26, Richard Detwiler wrote: In the whole scheme of things, this is fairly trivial, but it's annoying (and puzzling), so I thought I'd ask to see if anyone had any ideas. There's one particular Calc file, which I've had reason to access frequently lately, which

Re: [users] Recent Documents list acting oddly

2006-07-18 Thread rlshadow
the behaviour that I'm noting. Dick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 8:26 AM Subject: Re: [users] Recent Documents list acting oddly On Tuesday 18 July 2006 12:26, Richard Detwiler wrote: In the whole scheme of things

Re: [users] Recent Documents list acting oddly

2006-07-18 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 07:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 18/07/2006 12:27:27 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the whole scheme of things, this is fairly trivial, but it's annoying (and puzzling), so I thought I'd ask to see if anyone had any ideas.

Re: [users] Recent documents

2006-07-13 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 09:06 -0400, Lee Wiggers wrote: 'Recent documents' seems to be non-functional or locked on previous settings. Saving a document does not add it to the queue. 2.0.2, although this is from memory as the notice did not upgrade with the upgrade. The mandrake release

[users] recent documents list

2005-04-03 Thread Anthony Boor -- Citizens Informer proofreader
Greetings, The recent documents list in 1.9.79 (File - Recent Documents) -- how can one clear it out? --Anthony Boor - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Recent Documents in Calc

2005-01-26 Thread Alberto Forcheri
OpenOffice.org 1.9.71.1 Calc Is the following a bug ? FileRecent Documents ten files showed click on document already cancelled - (may happen); ... does not exist OK FileRecent DocumentsNo documents (!?) Fileopen an existing file, close file. Try again Recent Documents ... the ten files