Re: [users] WRITER: Create template using ONLY our styles

2008-12-11 Thread Hedley Finger
. The writers will have to select the Custom Styles pane before applying styles. Presumably, it might be possible to open this dialogue on launch using an OOo script but I am not familiar with the API or scripting, so don't know whether that is possible. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent

[users] OpenOffice.org indexing add-ons

2008-12-08 Thread Hedley Finger
..} field in the text but that too is slow as it uses a modal dialogue that closes after every entry. Gr! Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL

[users] Indexing add-ons for OOo?

2008-12-07 Thread Hedley Finger
subentries, etc.? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

[users] How to insert a paragraph after a table in OOo?

2008-12-02 Thread Hedley Finger
uppers). Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e

[users] Re: atw: How to insert a paragraph after a table in OOo

2008-12-02 Thread Hedley Finger
Hedley Finger wrote: I have an OpenOffice.org Write document with one table following another. I want to insert a paragraph after the first table ... how? Just found it in the Help after prodigious combinations of search terms. Insert the cursor in the first or last cell of a table

Re: [users] Re: What about autorecovery for my sanity?

2008-11-29 Thread Hedley Finger
NoOp wrote: @Hedley: give M12 a try - it works for me. You'll find it on the aussiehq.net.au mirror. I am doing production work with Ctrl-s on autorepeat! But will get M12 next Monday as job finishes before then. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124

Re: [users] What about autorecovery for my sanity? -- ADDENDUM

2008-11-29 Thread Hedley Finger
you tried a save -- Uh, oh! But once the file is saved somewhere, the whole lock, auto, save, recovery thing is normal. If you crashed while editing an RO file, too bad. Plays nice now, though. Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229

Re: [users] What about autorecovery for my sanity? -- ADDENDUM

2008-11-28 Thread Hedley Finger
in a local writeable folder. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [users] What about autorecovery for my sanity? -- ADDENDUM

2008-11-27 Thread Hedley Finger
) -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[users] What about autorecovery for my sanity?

2008-11-27 Thread Hedley Finger
. -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [users] What about autorecovery for my sanity? -- ADDENDUM

2008-11-27 Thread Hedley Finger
any work for over 16 years from a crash and the recovery file has always been intact! Beat that, Word, WordPerfect, OpenOffice.org, etc. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461

[users] A sort of work around for autorecovery

2008-11-13 Thread Hedley Finger
elsewhere. This version of the file does have all your work. I can't guarantee this will work every time but even the chance of preserving your work has to be grasped at. Can anybody else confirm or otherwise this hackaround? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC

[users] Has OOo 3.0 totally destroyed any Word *.doc files yet?

2008-11-10 Thread Hedley Finger
... Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: [users] Re: What the [deleted] is wrong with autosave on ver3

2008-11-10 Thread Hedley Finger
? Perhaps OOo Made You Do It? 8^) Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

[users] Conditional calculation on date difference

2008-10-22 Thread Hedley Finger
branch on the result of the subtraction (or take-away, for those of you who only understand the higher maths)? Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL

Re: [users] Conditional calculation on date difference -- THANKS

2008-10-22 Thread Hedley Finger
, Hedley -- Hedley Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Fax. (call phone first) Mob. (cell) +61 412 461 558 Email. Hedley Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

[users] How do I download the Java-free installer for OOo 2.4?

2008-04-03 Thread Hedley Finger
I received an announcement about the release of OOo 2.4 and clicked on the link to http://download.openoffice.org/?cid=923658. But when I clicked on the green Download bar, the installer that includes Java was downloaded. How do I get OOo 2.4 WITHOUT Java? I always have the latest version

[users] Can anyone explain how to do conditional paragraphs?

2005-07-06 Thread hedley . finger
to merge your explanation in to the existing content. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Support Specialist MYOB Australia http://www.myob.com/ P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business Park East Burwood VIC 3151 Australia

[users] So how do you insert hair, thin, thick, en and em spaces?

2005-07-06 Thread hedley . finger
The Special Characters catalogue doesn't show them. The on-line help doesn't index or find them. I can do this in Word and FrameMaker, why not OOo? Whine, whine, whine ... . Does anyone know how this can be done, other than crudely inserting two or more word spaces? -- Hedley Finger Technical

[users] OOo goes to sleep, fails to refresh doc windows

2005-07-04 Thread hedley . finger
, Pentium 4 2.4 GHz, ATI Radeon 7500, 512 Mb RAM, 22.5 Gb free space, swap file under Windows default automatic sizing, Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP2, OpenOffice.org 1.1.4, JRE Version 1.5.0 (build 1.5.0_02-b09) -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Support Specialist MYOB Australia

[users] Regular expressions in replace not working as expected

2005-06-09 Thread hedley . finger
blah not z)-Text of subclause, blah blah blah as expected. So, can you use references in the replace expression at all, and if so, what is the syntax? The on-line help is conspicuously silent. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Support Specialist MYOB Australia http

[users] How do set size of text in Calc notes attached to cells?

2005-06-03 Thread hedley . finger
I've looked in the help under fonts, text, notes, and cells but can't find out how to change the size of text in Calc notes attached to cells. Any ideas? -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Support Specialist MYOB Australia http://www.myob.com/ P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia

[users] Going nuts trying to create a relative hyperlink from an OOo Text to a Spreadsheet document

2005-04-27 Thread hedley . finger
not exist. Please tell me that this is a horrible mistake and OOo _does_ know how to handle relative paths! Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Finger Technical Communications Support Specialist MYOB Australia http://www.myob.com/ P.O. box 371 Blackburn VIC 3130 Australia 12 Wesley Court Tally Ho Business

[users] How do we contact your re OpenOffice.org help partnership?

2005-01-24 Thread hedley . finger
Roderick, Scott: I sent an email direct to your email addresses yesterday titled BUSINESS ENQUIRY. Given your strictures on not writing to you directly, perhaps it has been binned. However, this enquiry is not the usual post to the OpenOffice.org users mail list but is addressed to you in your