Dear Michael: I've waded carefully through both the links you kindly sent me
& can find nothing which relates to my endnote problem. As a tutor, don't
you know of a site which explains this stuff in layman's terms? Or of any
'real world' tutorial help re OO in London? Both the sites you suggested use
endless jargon words without any attempt to translate them. My despair
arises both from the particular messes into which I've been led by OO, but
more generally because I've been word processing for 25 years & have
constantly tried to learn, but now find my grasp slipping ever faster away,
as it becomes the field of technical experts.
But anyway I will tomorrow try your suggestion of posting a sample file
& asking for help that way. Alas, still no response to my other OO probs.
TS.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Help!!
Life is to short to torment yourself over a word processor, so enough
of the woe is me already.
I still think you need to grasp the concept of styles first, before you
proceed.
http://www.google.com/search?q=openoffice.org+styles+tutorial
Try this one:
http://www.pcc-services.com/tutorials/OOo/basic_styles/page1.html
In case you are wondering, i am a tutor, not a handyman. If you want a
handyman look next door. Or post a sample file to the internet so that
someone here can tell you how to modify the existing endnote style
document wide.
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:17:44 +0100
thomas steel wrote:
Thank you, Michael, for responding again. I wonder if you will have
the patience to stick with this one. I can't work out how to 'identify
para. style for endnotes', much less how to alter it. I have been
going to my endnotes & then to 'Format' & then to 'Styles &
Formatting'. Once there I am hit by several baffling items, but
nothing which seems connected in any way with what I want to do. I
really want to make this work & not to have to return to Word, but I
am in torment! TS----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [users] Help!!
>
> I have replied after the relevant point (interspersed replying)
>
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:25:47 +0100
> thomas steel wrote:
>
>> Thank you so much for your help. Alas, I am even closer to despair
>> with my 3 major problems over OO. I have struggled through all the
>> style material, but can't see any connection with my endnote
>> difficulty. Is it something to do with an 'anchor'? I don't know
>what> that is and can't find it defined anywhere.
>
> All the endnotes in your document will have a given paragraph style
> applied to them. You need to identify the paragraph style used for
> the endnotes first. Then alter this paragraph style and apply the
> changes to the style for the whole document endnote styles to be
> updated.
>
>> By the way, am I using this facility correctly by responding to
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Yes you are.
>
>> I'm sure there must be a way of filtering through to questions &
>> responses on a single issue.
>
> You could create a folder within your inbox for openoffice.org
> "user" emails. Then set a filter to filter the "user" emails to that
> folder. Finally turn threaded view on for that folder. This requires
> moderate knowledge of your email client or how to use help within
> it. Unfortunately i do not know windows mail and cannot assist you
> further in that regard.
>
>> From: "Michael Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:11:08 +0100
>> > thomas steel wrote:
>> >
>> >> My other problem is that I like to use a rarish font called
>> >> Charter.
>> >> Openword happily converts documents into this, but obstinately
>> >leaves> all endnotes untouched. I have had to change these one by
>one> >(hugely> laborious, when some of my docs have 200 of them. I
>must be> >missing a> trick here. Will anyone be kind enough to help?
>T. Steel> >
>> > Looks like the styles applied in the document endnotes have not
>> > persisted through the OO.o import filter. An understanding of
>styles> > will allow you to modify the style for the endnotes once
>per> > document. A general understanding of styles will speed writing
>by> > reducing time spent on formatting text.
>> >
>> >
>http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_Us
>er_Manual/Writer_Guide/Introduction_to_Styles> > If that link breaks
>due to wordwrap here is a shortcut to it:> >
>http://tinyurl.com/6puexl> >
>
> --
> Michael
>
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> shall be well
>
> - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416
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