I'm having terrible trouble with frame placement in Writer. I have a document
of about 20 pages with 6 frames in it: 2 diagrams (created in Draw) and 4 text
listings. My preference is to anchor them to characters, so I can say things
like as you can see in Figure 2 [anchor], ... and have the
I can't find a way to change the symbol associated with a footnote. For
example, suppose I've decided that footnotes 1 and 2 should be come footnotes x
and y. How can I change the symbols for the footnotes?
As a workaround, I can insert new footnotes, copy/paste the footnote text from
the
Naomi Kramer wrote:
1. Right-click on the footnote reference (in the main text) and
select Footnote...
2. Select the Character option button
3. Type x
4. Click OK.
(hope that works for you)
It does, thanks. (I'd actually already tried that, but I had the footnote
symbol
I have two questions about character styles.
1. I have a style called Code that is supposed to do nothing but change the
font face to Calibri. It should not change the font size, the font background,
the use of bold or italics or anything else about the characters. I should be
able to apply
Michele wrote:
Just guessing (actually it would be much more useful if I spent time
trying rather than typing this email (-: ): have you tried putting
100% in the font size box?
I just tried. It doesn't seem to exhibit the behavior I want, e.g., applying
the resulting style to footnote text
Michele wrote:
I also tried reproduce the problem and I will make another guess:
When applying a character style OOo only applies those settings that
are *in the character style definition* different compared to the
default character.
Well, this is what I see. I select some text, change it to
Michele Zarri wrote:
In order to achieve your desired result (e.g. change only one property)
and still being able to create styles from selection, you will need to
make the change you want to a section of text formatted with default
character. In this case it will all work.
This does not seem
I know how to search for paragraph styles, but how can I search for character
styles? For example, I have a character style called Publication Title, and I
want to find all text in my document where that style is applied. How can I do
that?
From Googling around, I get the impression that I
Michael Adams wrote:
IS Georgia + 11pt an earlier change you made to the default character
style? I do not know this as the default. (Times New Roman + 12pt is
what i'd expect to see here).
OO says my default font is 12 pt Georgia.
Scott
Michele wrote:
Basically to remove Georgia (if this is your default character style),
in the organizer tab link the custom style to the default style.
When I try to set the Linked with filed of a character style to Default, I'm
told This Style cannot be used as a base Style, because it would
Michele wrote:
I was thinking of character styles, but clearly I am mistaken. Please
accept my apologies.
No worries, you've always been very helpful :-)
Scott
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Naomi Kramer wrote:
Yes, but... it's a pain in the bum. It is possible to go into the xml
behind a document, open the styles information and modify (insert
screams of horror from readers). In my experience, best bet is to delete
the character style and recreate it, taking extreme care to NOT
I'm working on a document where I have repeated phrases that are a pain to type
and format. One is Lbegin where the L is normal text and the begin is
subscripted and italicized. To save time, I just typed Lbegin everywhere,
formatted the first one, copied it to the clipboard, then sat down to
I created a new character style called Subscript that does nothing but make
text subscripted. The Contains section of the Organizer for the style says
only Subscript automatic. But when I apply this character style to text, the
text doesn't change in any visible way. Yet selecting the text,
Uwe Fischer wrote:
you can search and replace styles in the Find Replace dialog. Click
More Options, then check Search for Styles checkbox.
Unfortunately, that works only for paragraph styles. I sent the following post
on April 3, but now I can't find it, so maybe it got lost somewhere
Jim Allan wrote:
Once you’ve found whatever you were searching for, or fixed whatever you
wanted to fix, then change the style back again.
The problem is that the only way (I know of) to change the style back again is
to edit the XML file describing the style. As has been discussed here
Jim Allan wrote:
My technique depends on the fact that, at least for me, this normally
doesn’t matter. I can normally change a style to red color from
automatic color, and then change it back to automatic
My point is that you can't do this. Once you've selected something, there's no
way
Joe Smith wrote:
I would tackle your problem using Find Replace, in two steps:
1) Find all Lbegin
2) Find all begin (option: current selection only)
Nifty idea, thanks very much. I was not aware you could do this. Cool, cool,
cool!
That will select only the appropriate begins and then
Harold Fuchs wrote:
All I did was to bring up the format pane (F11), choose Character
styles, select Default and then New (via right click). I then gave the
new style a name (SubscriptChar) and set its Position to Subscript.
The new style now appears in the list of available character styles
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Same - Win XP Pro SP2 and I'm up to date with updates. The selected text
visibly changes when I apply the style. In the Position section of your
style's definition, what are the settings apart from Subscript - what
values do you have for Relative Font Size Raise/Lower by?
If you are interested in any of those issues please vote for them (I
already used up my allowance a long time ago.
I wanted to do this, but during the registration process, I ran into this
password restriction:
Up to 32 characters in length; valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and
Jim Allan wrote:
You would creating very unusual documents if there is no searchable
feature that you know you would never use in your text (such as
“blinking” perhaps?) All you need is one searchable feature that you
won't use otherwise than for searching styles.
I went to delete my
Jim Allan wrote:
You must also check “including styles” in the “Find and Replace” dialog
box.
That makes no difference for me -- I still find nothing. Does it work for you?
Scott
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Jim Allan wrote:
Try doing exactly the same thing. If it works, then go from there and
see if you can discover why your previous test didn’t work.
Please try your test again, this time using subscripting instead of blinking. I
find that I can search and find blinking text when I do what you
Jim Allan wrote:
Everything is working just as I expect on my system. Unfortunately,
there’s not much more I can do. At least you can be assured that this
all does work.
Thanks you for your extremely detailed instructions. I believe that things work
now. But I also believe that they are
Joe Smith wrote:
On the style definition dialog, at the bottom, there is a button labeled
Standard. Clicking that button will remove the style properties set by
that tab of the dialog.
I knew that I had run some experiments on the behavior of the standard and reset
buttons and had seen the
Joe Smith wrote:
The best resource I know of is the one you're using right now:
user-to-user QA, either here, or one of the web forums:
UCF: http://user.services.openoffice.org
OOoForum: http://www.oooforum.org
I read this list via the Gmane newsgroup interface, which I find vastly
Michael Adams wrote:
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:38:10 -0700
Scott Meyers wrote:
If you are interested in any of those issues please vote for them (I
already used up my allowance a long time ago.
I wanted to do this, but during the registration process, I ran into
this password restriction:
Up
jonathon wrote:
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Scott Meyers wrote:
I know my protest is futile, but I just can't cope with places that won't let
me use whatever I want as a password.
+1
If this means what I think it does (that you've added a vote for this issue),
thank you.
Whlst I
Harold Fuchs wrote:
1. How on earth do you keep track of all those humongous pass phrases?
I use a program called Roboform (http://www.roboform.com/). I choose the
phrases for each site (or have it choose one for me), it does the remembering.
2. Why do you consider it necessary to use 32
I'm moving from FrameMaker to OOo, so the notion of paragraph and character
styles is familiar to me. However, the notion of linking styles so that child
styles inherit the attributes of their parent that they don't explicitly change
is new to me. I'm looking for some advice on whether to use
I'm new to Writer and having trouble figuring out how to easily set tab stops at
regular intervals. With other word-processing-type programs, I've been able to
set tab stops on the ruler and control their spacing by having the tab stops
snap to particular increments, e.g., every .15 inch. But
Michele wrote:
If you want non-regularly spaced tab stops then you should create a
paragraph style and allocate the tab stops positions in the tabs page.
Which I'm doing, I'd just hoped to be able to do it via the ruler instead of
having to type in the offsets manually. (It's also a big pain
Michele wrote:
I see... then what you need to do is to use the Update style that
you will find in the styles and formatting window. Set the tab stops
using the ruler
This is the sticking point. Because I can't find a way to tell the ruler to let
me set stops only on particular values (e.g.,
Craig White wrote:
You can set tabs by decimal value and set their properties too (left|
right|center|decimal and leaders)
Right, but my original observation was that this is a lot more time consuming
than moving sliders to snap locations on the ruler, especially if you end up
deciding you
I've set up custom paragraph and list styles so that I can easily generate lists
that look like this:
[1] Blah blah blah
[2] Blah blah blah
[3] Blah blah blah
[4] Blah blah blah
Now I need to create cross references to the numbers of the list entries so that
the result reads like this:
We
Michele wrote:
This issue was discussed at length on this list in the past and as far
as I can remember it is not possible to cross reference a numbered
item (yet). There is a a request for enhancement for this which is now
marked as fixed, but I am not sure in which version it will be
Harold Fuchs wrote:
You can also move more than one tab at a time on the ruler. From
Writer's Help:
begin quote ===
Moving Tabs on the Ruler
Move individual tab stops on the ruler using the mouse.
To move several tab stops on the ruler, press the Shift key before you
click a tab. Drag one
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Although you are correct, if you are willing to perform the numbering
yourself, using a field, then you should be able to cross reference the
item. For example, create a field named MyNumber and then set it
specifically the same way you can manually enter a table
Michele wrote:
If you don't mind the pain of having to find out the correct reference
by means of trial and error here's how you can proceed:
1. Follow Andrew's instructions and create a variable (I called mine BiblioRef)
2. Insert this variable in the the square brackets in your bibliography
When working on a document, I often want to apply a particular paragraph style
or a particular character style. The styles window allows me to see either
paragraph or character styles, but I really want to have both lists available to
me at the same time. As things stand now, I often choose a
jonathon wrote:
On Jan 16, 2008 11:51 PM, Scott Meyers wrote:
but I really want to have both lists available to me at the same time.
a) Configure the formatting toolbar to display:
* paragraph style (Apply style)
* font name;
* font size;
* font color;
* anything else you want to know about
I find that Writer lets me rename some paragraph styles and not others. The
not list seems to include Text Body and Text Body indent, presumably
because they are predefined style names. I don't like these names, so I really
want to not use them. Is there some way to rename them?
If there's
Brian Barker wrote:
The help text confirms that you cannot change the name of a predefined
style.
It would be nice if this was indicated in some way, such as by not offering an
edit control for the style name that is initially indistinguishable from the
edit controls for editable style
Suppose I've set references named R1 and R2 in my document, and I realize later
that R1 and R2 are not the most informative names in the world, so I'd like
to change them. How can I do that? They're displayed in the Navigator, but I
can't find a way to edit them.
Also, suppose I've created
Often, I have a paragraph with a particular style that I've tweaked for that
paragraph. Usually, this is because I've set different tab stops for the
paragraph than are standard for the paragraph style.
It is not uncommon for me to want to copy a paragraph's format (i.e., the
modified
Harold Fuchs wrote:
quote from the Help text under CopyingStyles
You can use the Format Paintbrush tool to copy formatting from a text
selection or object and apply the formatting to another text selection or
object.
Great, thanks for this information. FWIW, I try to find the answers
Naomi Kramer wrote:
Scott Meyers wrote:
Suppose I've set references named R1 and R2 in my document, and I
realize later that R1 and R2 are not the most informative names in
the world, so I'd like to change them. How can I do that? They're
displayed in the Navigator, but I can't find a way
I've just finished a draft of a 18-page article, and I have 19 named references
in it. That seems to be the limit on reference names that show in the
Selection column of the References tab of the Fields dialog, so if I add
more, I'll have to start scrolling to find what I want. Since the
Naomi Kramer wrote:
To refer to it:
1. Press Ctrl-F2
2. Click on the References tab
3. Select Elephant from the Type list
4. Select your specific reference, etc
The problem is that the list of references is not helpful. In my current
document, these are the entries for Figure:
Naomi Kramer wrote:
Scott Meyers wrote:
Suppose I've set references named R1 and R2 in my document, and I
realize later that R1 and R2 are not the most informative names in
the world, so I'd like to change them. How can I do that? They're
displayed in the Navigator, but I can't find a way
Naomi Kramer wrote:
Have you tried out the reference manager macro yet?
No, but I've printed out the user manual :-) I'll report back to this group
after I've had a chance to play around with it a bit. That will probably not be
for a few days, alas.
Scott
In the funny little world I live in, C++ is a single indivisible word. Writer
seems to think it's three independent characters, given that on the same page it
managed to put line breaks between c+ and + and between C and ++. No
hyphens were introduced, so this does not seem to be a word-break
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Hmmm. Which version of OO are you using and on which OS? I'm on Win XP
Pro with OO 2.2 and, in the dreaded words of the software support guy I
cannot reproduce your problem.
Oh, goody. I'm using OOo 2.3.1 on WinXP. Here are a couple examples of what
Writer has produced
Manfred J. Krause wrote:
CTL enabled
Type: CNo-width no break+No-width no break+
[You'll get No-width no break by
Insert - Formatting mark ...]
The only options I see under InsertFormatting mark are:
Non-breaking space
Non-breaking hyphen
Optional hyphen
Perhaps this has something to
I recently started working with OOo, and I just saved my Writer document in Word
97/2000/XP format. I then opened the document in Word XP, and I was surprised
to see that (1) frame content (e.g., listings and diagrams) seemed to be missing
entirely, (2) special symbols were missing from the
Manfred J. Krause wrote:
CTL = Complex Text Layout
Tools | Options | Language Settings | Languages
Enhanced Language Support
Got it, thanks very much.
But that suggestion is only a workaround
when you're typing/editing text.
For copied text you'll need 'Find Replace' ...
Which works
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Format it as no language.
That's not a very attractive option, because I want to be able to spell-check
those paragraphs. In the documents I write, many paragraphs have the word C++
in them, and foregoing spell checking for those paragraphs would be a
significant
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Wouldn't he have to do that for every occurrence, just in case one
occurrence overflowed a line without him noticing?
Unfortunately, yes.
The same is largely true of the no-width no break solution, except that that
approach is more amenable to
Uwe Fischer wrote:
(1) if your frame content is an OLE object in Writer, it will not show
up in Word
One of the frames is just text, and this setting had no effect when I tried it.
As it happens, the frame is actually a frame holding a frame, and it's the
inner frame's content that does not
John W. Kennedy wrote:
You can't, in general. You just have to deal with the fact that there
are always going to be exceptional and difficult cases. A problem that I
had a couple of years back, for example, was in transcribing an
18th-century play (William Dunlap's 1798 André: a tragedy in
Dan wrote:
And here may be a wayout solution. The dictionary files are text based.
Are the hyphenated files also text based? If so, is it possible to include
c++ in the proper hyphenated file in a way that it will never be hyphenated?
Hyphenation is not the problem here, the problem is
John W. Kennedy wrote:
But it is easy to give cases where + should be a break, and easy to
give cases where ‘ should, even in the same documents.
I'm sure it's possible, but easy? I can't think of a case where I'd like a+b
to be treated as three words in one case but as only a single word
Manfred J. Krause wrote:
2008/1/25, John W. Kennedy wrote:
As far as I know, the no-width no-break device is a character, not a
format.
No-width no-break in Writer is equivalent to U+2060 [word joiner]*
Silly me, I assumed that InsertFormatting Mark... had to do with formatting
:-)
Scott
I'm working on a book with a mirrored page layout. On left pages, the page
number is on the left, on right pages, it's on the right. I want to put the
page numbers in a circle or other diagram I draw. This leads to two questions:
- How do I get the circle around the page number? The only
There has to be an easy way to do this, but I cannot find it. I want to put a
horizontal line below the header and above the body text of each page. Can
somebody please tell me how to do it?
Thanks,
Scott
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To
H.S. wrote:
Next, in that header, draw a line just inside the bottom of the header
box and you have the line just below the header.
Would this serve the purpose?
Ah, the resulting line appears to be anchored inside the header, so I can move
it wherever I like. Very nice, thanks.
Scott
Richard Detwiler wrote:
Create the header. Then while in the header, select Format Paragraph
Border, and select a bottom border.
This is a cleaner solution to this problem than the one H.S. recommended, though
his/her suggestion is more general, I think. However, when I did this, Writer
In Writer, I can use the Hierarchical view of styles to see which ones are
linked to which other ones. I find this very useful, but it does not seem to
work for page styles. I'm using a custom page size that I'd like to propagate
to all the different page styles I'm going to use (e.g., left
H.S. wrote:
I am not an expert in typography and printing. Having said that, I think
you are tackling the problem from the wrong angle. Your objective should
be whether you want a single sided document (in which case, header right
style will work for all pages), or if you want double sided
I'm setting up page styles for a book. I've set up left pages, right pages,
left chapter openers, and right chapter openers. All use arabic page numbering.
I want to use the same styles for the front matter, except I want those pages
to use roman numbering. I'd like to link the
Brian Barker wrote:
Unless I misunderstand your need, there is a simple way to copy page
styles:
o In the Styles and Formatting window, click the Page Styles button.
o Click somewhere in your document with the relevant page style.
o Click the New Style from Selection button (at the far
Writer insists on listing Header among the applied paragraph styles. In the
document I'm working on, none of the page styles has a header, and searching for
uses of this paragarph style yields no hits.
How can I get Writer to stop listing this style as being applied?
Thanks,
Scott
At http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000178, Bruce Byfield
writes:
The fact that OpenOffice.org Writer is more than a word processor is an open
secret. ... For this reason, it includes ... tools for adjusting character
width and letter space for individual characters.
I am unable to find
Brian Barker wrote:
Go to Format | Character... | Position (or right-click | Character... |
Position). Under Rotation / scaling you can change the width of
characters, and under Spacing you can choose Expanded or Condensed and
then pick the change in spacing you require.
Well, color me
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