I put up a new version of the file with much new content. I may have
made some major errors (pretty tired, not thinking straight), but, I
think that I fixed the major idiocy that I accidentally added. There
seems to be an issue with fonts and code listings (because I don't have
the fonts used). Hopefully I did not mess things up too badly.
I may disappear for a bit, but not more than a week. Unclear if I will
have email access where I am going.
On 10/13/2010 09:11 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Sorry, still working 12+ hour days at work...
I agree that this looks good.
On 10/10/2010 02:52 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Hmmm... actually, the bit in Chapter 3 on re-enabling updating from a
template might do the job. Here it is (slightly modified):
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1. Choose Tools> Macros> Organize Macros> OpenOffice.org Basic.
Select the document from the list, click the expansion symbol (+ or
triangle), and select Standard. If Standard has an expansion symbol
beside it, click that and select a module
2. If the Edit button is active, click it. If the Edit button is not
active, click New.
3. In the Basic window, paste the macro you copied.
4. Click the Run BASIC icon, then close the Basic window.
5. Save the document.
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--Jean
-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Jean Hollis Weber<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [authors] PING Andrew Pitonyak: new section for Getting
Started with Macros
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:47:17 +1000
That's more or less what I had in mind, to expand the first paragraph of
the section on "Downloading macros to import". The existing sentence
(after the semi-colon) there is a bit cryptic to anyone who's never done
this before. The confusing part is "choose the macro to edit" -- the
reader is thinking, "Huh? I'm trying to paste in a new macro, not edit
an existing one." Possibly a mini-example would help?
--Jean
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 21:04 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
My thought when I looked at it was to literally add a section
something like:
You see a macro on a web site and you want to copy the text and
paste it
into your copy so that you can run it.
1. you need to decide where to store it (which library, which module,
why does it matter).
2. How to do this (step by step)
3. Now, run it.
Perhaps this can be at the end, or, do you prefer the beginning before
they get started.
On 10/07/2010 06:50 AM, TJ Frazier wrote:
On 10/7/2010 01:23, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Yes, that's the latest file. I appreciate the time problem. If you
can't, you can't. Or maybe TJ will step in and draft something?
--Jean
Maybe :-) The subject is already mentioned in the section,
"Downloading macros to import". Maybe another sentence there? --/tj/
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 00:51 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Working 12+ hours days, but, will see what I can do.
I assume that this is still the latest from which I should work...
http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/gs3/V3_3_revisions/0113GS3-GettingStartedWithMacros_JHW_20101003.odt/view
On 10/06/2010 10:33 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Andrew,
I think the Getting Started with Macros chapter needs a short
addition
to explain how to put someone else's macro code (copied, say,
from an
email or a blog) into a macro on my computer. To apply the info
that's
in the chapter needs a lot of puzzling out by the naive reader
(such as
myself). This could be part of, or follow, the section "Writing
macros
without the recorder". Could you write something suitable?
--Jean
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