[users] How to merge the versions of two Writer documents?

2011-09-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have a Writer document that I have been editing for a few years (CV). A few months ago I branched a new document from it to try out a new layout. I like the new layout and wish to merge the two documents, so that all the versions from the original document show in the versions in the current

[users] Two issues I need help with

2011-09-08 Thread Mark Saul
I'm a new user of Open Office. Can anyone help me with two tasks? Both are related to importing data into a word processing document. 1) Often, text comes in with a 'carriage return' (paragraph sign) at the end of each line, which you have to get rid of. Can I do this with

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2011-09-08 Thread Pascale Dahan
To whom it may concern, I have had problems checking for updates. This is the error message I get: ‘Could not establish network connection to update36.services.openoffice.org.’ Also, I cannot run the spell check. Whe I do it says that it is complete but it doesn’t actually run. And although at

[users] Re: Two issues I need help with

2011-09-08 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hello Mark, On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 11:25:12AM -0400, Mark Saul wrote: I'm a new user of Open Office. Can anyone help me with two tasks? Both are related to importing data into a word processing document. 1) Often, text comes in with a 'carriage return' (paragraph sign) at the end of each

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2011-09-08 Thread Martin du Saire
Pascale, Include operating system and OO version information, please. Does Writer draw the squiggly red line under unknown words? If you google: open office spell checker does nothing you get:

[users] Re: How to merge the versions of two Writer documents?

2011-09-08 Thread Martin du Saire
Dotan, Include operating system and OO version please. * I am not endorsing this extension because I have never used it*, but it looks like it might do what you want: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/templatechanger By the way, I found this by doing a google search: open

[users] Re: Two issues I need help with

2011-09-08 Thread Martin du Saire
And if Ariel's excellent answer isn't complete enough, there is always the wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Regular_Expressions_in_Writer Some of this stuff may be version dependent? M On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile