On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 10:37 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> Shelagh Manton wrote:
> > Ok, I've been trying to follow the instructions on the web page on how
> > to retract a chapter. However, the only three seem to have been reviewed
> > recently by yourself. Above you say to look at any of the chapters
> > except ch1? Do I just download and review away? or is there some
> > mechanism for retracting chapters that are not in the review list?
> 
> The usual instructions don't translate well to reviewing published 
> chapters. Although you can retract a published file, it's best to not do 
> so, because that makes the file invisible to anyone without Author 
> privileges. I must revise the instructions.
> 
> In this case (reviewing pubished chapters of the Calc Guide):
> 1) Go to this page.
> http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/calc/published_final/folder_contents

Check! Ok I downloaded the Chapter 5 Printing with Calc.
> 
> (Plone often brings you into the View page, where you can't see the State 
> of chapters, or their "last modified" dates. You need to be on the folder 
> Contents page to see all that.)
> 
> 2) Pick any of the ODT files with a date of 2005 or 2006 and click on it.
> 
> 3) Download the file from the page you're taken to.
> 
> Aside: on this page there is a drop-down list on the right-hand end of the 
> blue bar, to change the State of the chapter from Published to Retracted. 
> But as I said above, it's best to not do that.
> 
> I hope this helps!
> 
> On a related matter:
> If possible, please use the latest development build of OOo2.3, which you 
> can get from here if you don't already have it: 
> http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html


Ok, have downloaded this. It doesn't show up in the package-manager I
use. Probably going to be ready for the next Ubuntu release. Oh well
I'll see how I go with it.

Shelagh
> Note: You can have both the current stable version (2.2.1) and the 
> development build on your machine at the same time. They won't interfere 
> with each other.
> 
> --Jean

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