Re: Change of background color

You can change the background color at OpenOffice > Preferences > OpenOffice (group) > Appearance (That's the sequence on a Mac. Windows might be different.) For the "Document background" selection, choose Automatic (above Black in the list). Chuck On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 8:03 AM Peter

Re: Open Office cannot check for updates

Checking for updates works for me (OO 4.1.7 on Mac OS X 10.12). Chuck

Re: OpenOffice 4.1.7: No page borders

To be a bit more clear than the previous response, I believe you want Format -> Page... -> Page and then set the page margins. The Borders settings define a line border around the text area defined by the margins. On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 3:34 PM JD wrote: > Hi, > I tried to create a document

Re: [AOO-Templates]

Alan, Your guidance sort of works for me (OO 4.1.7 on Mac OS 10.12.6). If I do not have any document open, the menu selection *File > From Template...* works as expected. But if I have any document open (Writer or Calc), the selection *File > New > Templates and Documents* does nothing—the

Re: Open office

I use OpenOffice on macOS High Sierra. The webpage referenced by another response states that OpenOffice 4.1.7 is compatible with MacOS X Lion (10.7) through macOS Catalina (10.15). To answer your other question, the OpenOffice download is "~ 163

Re: Using Open office

David, OpenOffice can read/modify/save files in DOC/XLS format. One can even set preferences to use those formats by default when creating files. I don't know why, but the OpenOffice community seems to strongly resist the use of DOC/XLS file formats instead of the "native" ODT/ODS formats.

Re: Loading dictionary extension

The text refers to version "20200*2*01", but the link goes to version "20200 *1*01". I believe the correct link is: https://sourceforge.net/projects/aoo-extensions/files/17102/51/dict-en-20200201.oxt/download When I double-click on an OXT file (with OpenOffice 4.1.7 for Mac), OpenOffice freezes

Re: American Spell Check problem

I, too, am not a regular Windows user, but I believe you're supposed to use forward slashes ("/") instead of back slashes ("\"). Chuck On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 3:34 AM Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 17:20:35 -0500 (EST) > MICHAEL SHIELDS Owner wrote: > > > I hate to sound

Re: Email App from Openoffice

I have the "opposite" question: I *want* the behavior the original poster described. How do I configure OpenOffice (on a Mac) to use Gmail as the mail "application"? The method suggested to the OP doesn't seem applicable, since Gmail is accessed through a browser—that is, the "application" is the

Re: Microsoft has converted my OpenOffice documents

They probably did not "change the files". They probably changed which program will, by default, open files with various file types (e.g., DOC and XLS). If that's the case, you need to change the file-to-program associations. That does not involve any change to the file contents. Chuck On Mon,

Re: EXPORTING NARRATIVE FILES

Perhaps he's using a Mac, on which the print dialog for all(?) applications (definitely including OpenOffice) provides the ability to "print to PDF". Chuck On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 2:26 PM Brian Barker wrote: > At 15:06 26/05/2020 -0500, Steven Ahlers wrote: > >I generally generate PDFs from

Re: MAC OS - Still cannot eliminate OO icon from Mac desktop when program running

Dan, It appears that that you are opening the OpenOffice program from within the downloaded dmg file (i.e., from the window described below). That file contains a virtual disk that contains the program and other files. You are supposed to copy the OpenOffice program from that virtual disk to the

Re: MAC OS - Still cannot eliminate OO icon from Mac desktop when program running

Dan, I don't know how you did it, but you do not have the OpenOffice *application* in your Applications folder. (You could [single] click on that icon and type Cmd-I [File > Get Info]. If I were a betting person, I would bet the Kind is "Volume", not "Application".) Furthermore, I can't imagine

Re: Open Office Spreadsheet question

Using OpenOffice 4.1.7 on macOS High Sierra (10.13.6), I do not see that menu selection in *Calc*. (I do see View > "Nonprinting Characters" in *Writer*.) Chuck On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 1:14 PM Martin Groenescheij wrote: > > > > On 10 Jul 2020, at 21:50, Glenn Little WB4UIV < >

Re: Mysterious ' in Calc

Brian, Thank you for enlightening us to this useful information! I'm sure there are many other features of OpenOffice that I haven't yet "discovered". Chuck On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 3:46 PM Brian Barker wrote: > At 22:49 27/06/2021 +0100, David Deeks wrote: > >I have discovered that I have

Re: Open Office/Apple macOS 11

David, Note that the address you sent your message to is "*users*@ openoffice.apache.org". We are *users* of OpenOffice like you, not the *maintainers* of the software. There is a "support forum" at this address: http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ . You might also be interested in the

Re: Spreadsheet

Karl, If I correctly understand your objective, try these steps: 1. Enter the desired multiplier in any cell (e.g., 1.05 for a 5% increase). 2. Select that cell and copy to the clipboard (i.e., Edit > Copy). 3. Select all the cells you want to modify (e.g., click on the first cell and

Re: open office

The response below seems to me to be not very useful for the original poster. The way to start a text document is to select File > New > Text Document. (That's the "File" menu, "New" menu item, and "Text Document" in the submenu.) The way to change the margins is to select Format > Page..., and