Re: [documentation-dev] Fwd: OO helpfile

2010-03-02 Thread Claire Wood
Hi Florian I think initially when you first start using OOo you're better referring to the PDF documents or the Wiki rather than the help file as they're more up to date. I know that the Base documentation is currently being updated. Not sure if I've been of help at all. Claire On 2 March 2010

Re: [documentation-dev] Fwd: OO helpfile

2010-03-02 Thread Daniel Lewis
Florian Effenberger wrote: Forwarding this (anonymized) to this list, and pointing the original poster to it Original Message Subject: OO helpfile Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:23:54 +0800 To: Florian Effenberger flo...@openoffice.org G'day Florian, Sorry to bother you, and

Re: [documentation-dev] Fwd: OO helpfile

2010-03-02 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Claire Wood wrote: I think initially when you first start using OOo you're better referring to the PDF documents or the Wiki rather than the help file as they're more up to date. The problem is that there is little user-oriented documentation on Base. Getting Started with Base is very good

Re: [documentation-dev] Fwd: OO helpfile

2010-03-02 Thread Claire Wood
Jean To be honest, I'm in agreement with Florian. On the whole I've only used the help file twice since signing up as I don't find it helpful. I think in places it's too descriptive rather than giving users concise instructions about how to do what they want and I ended up reverting to a

Re: [documentation-dev] Top 25 Technical Writing Blogs

2010-03-02 Thread Claire Wood
Hi All re Facebook. Someone wants to try getting everyone to join the one group. There's no way that you can share with everyone unless you join all 75 groups which defeats the object really, but such is life. On the whole, I think Facebook has quite a few issues to address at the moment, not

[documentation-dev] I'm new have some ideas for the how-to's

2010-03-02 Thread Josh
Hey everyone. I am new to the mailing list so please let me know if I am missing something or doing something wrong. I run the site easy10seconds.com, which is a video how to site with the idea of supplying short free videos for others to link to. I have 3 OOo right now; Calc, Writer

Re: [documentation-dev] I'm new have some ideas for the how-to's

2010-03-02 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 3/2/2010 11:50 AM, Josh wrote: Hey everyone. I am new to the mailing list so please let me know if I am missing something or doing something wrong. I run the site easy10seconds.com, which is a video how to site with the idea of supplying short free videos for others to link to. I have 3

Re: [documentation-dev] Fwd: OO helpfile

2010-03-02 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi all, please feel free to submit issues regarding the installed Help using Issuezilla: http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/ooQA-ReportBugs.html If you don't speak Issuezillanean you can e-mail your issue to me. As an exception you may post the issue on this mailing list. Unfortunately,

[documentation-dev] Change of address for Authors mailing list

2010-03-02 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Effective immediately, the Authors mailing list has been moved to a new home, auth...@documentation.openoffice.org This move is necessary because user-faq is no longer a supported/valid project and will not be included in the move to the new hosting infrastructure for OOo. All current

Re: [documentation-dev] I'm new have some ideas for the how-to's

2010-03-02 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Linking from the user guide chapters in the wiki sounds good to me. Some links have already been added (not by me) from the UGs to other tutorials and items on the wiki or on other websites. (When I see them, I check them to make sure they are legitimate and not spam.) I'm not sure I like the

[documentation-dev] Any way to change size of checkboxes etc in forms?

2010-03-02 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Is there any way to change the size of the checkboxes, option buttons, and other symbols used in form controls? I haven't been able to find it, but when using a checkbox (etc) in a form with large type in the text, the size of the checkbox is very small by comparison. I hope I'm just missing

Re: [documentation-dev] Any way to change size of checkboxes etc in forms?

2010-03-02 Thread deleeuw3
If you are using Adobe LiveCycle Designer (cs3 for me) you can change the point size on the checkbox to any size you wish. Alan On 3/3/2010 4:10 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Is there any way to change the size of the checkboxes, option buttons, and other symbols used in form controls? I

Re: [documentation-dev] Any way to change size of checkboxes etc in forms?

2010-03-02 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Um... this question was referring to creating forms in OOo Writer. We're documenting OOo, so it's pretty irrelevant what an Adobe product will do... especially one that doesn't run on Linux. --Jean deleeuw3 wrote: If you are using Adobe LiveCycle Designer (cs3 for me) you can change the

Re: [documentation-dev] Any way to change size of checkboxes etc in forms?

2010-03-02 Thread deleeuw3
ok. although usually i find there are cross-platform similarities in design. Alan On 3/3/2010 5:50 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Um... this question was referring to creating forms in OOo Writer. We're documenting OOo, so it's pretty irrelevant what an Adobe product will do... especially one

Re: [documentation-dev] Any way to change size of checkboxes etc in forms?

2010-03-02 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Hmmm does Adobe LiveCycle Designer actually let you change the size of a form control checkbox? I can't recall if MS Word does it. If I use a checkbox symbol that isn't part of a form control (that is, just a symbol from an ordinary font, not a form control), I can make it any size I