Re: How do I change the default font?
Yes, that seems to work fine. Thanks again, Brian*!* Pat On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 22:31 21/06/2013 -0400, Patricia Hickin wrote: > >> A very basic question that I cannot find the answer to in OO Help. >> Currently my default font is Times New Roman. How do I change that to >> Calibri? This is for an .odt document. >> > > Go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Basic Fonts (Western) > and make your changes there. This applies to new documents. > > For existing documents, go to Format | Styles and Formatting (or click the > Styles and Formatting button in the Formatting toolbar, or press F11) and > select your preferred font in the relevant paragraph styles. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > --**--**- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: > users-help@openoffice.apache.**org > >
Re: How do I change the default font?
At 22:31 21/06/2013 -0400, Patricia Hickin wrote: A very basic question that I cannot find the answer to in OO Help. Currently my default font is Times New Roman. How do I change that to Calibri? This is for an .odt document. Go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Basic Fonts (Western) and make your changes there. This applies to new documents. For existing documents, go to Format | Styles and Formatting (or click the Styles and Formatting button in the Formatting toolbar, or press F11) and select your preferred font in the relevant paragraph styles. I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [Possible values for n]
At 18:22 21/06/2013 -0500, Dale Erwin wrote: I realize that a variable can take any value, but some mathematical functions limit the possible values. Oh, indeed! ... I thought this particular function was stated as Sigma 1 to n = n*(n + 1) / 2 (where n > 1). It also works for n = 1, so n >= 1 is probably better. You don't really have a series if n is not > 1. Indeed: the original question asked to include numbers (i.e., in this case, integers) from 1 up to n. You can't really count up from 1 to 0, or to any fractional value, or to negative values. If you did allow the series to run backward (from 1 to 0) you would get Sigma 1 to 0 = 0 * 1 / 2 which evaluates to 0. Depending on how you defined your function, you could choose to include that as a permitted result. Apparently that's what the questioner wants. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
How do I change the default font?
A very basic question that I cannot find the answer to in OO Help. Currently my default font is Times New Roman. How do I change that to Calibri? This is for an .odt document. Thanks! Pat
RE: Calc: Easy way to do N+(N-1)+(N-2)+(N-3)..(N-N+1)
Yes, it was stated as 1 to N. But it happens that 0 to N has the same result and the formula works either way. - Dennis (The usual proof is a little different, so instead of N terms all of which total N+1, the numerator represents N+1 terms all of which total N.) -Original Message- From: Dale Erwin [mailto:d...@casaerwin.org] Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 02:01 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Calc: Easy way to do N+(N-1)+(N-2)+(N-3)..(N-N+1) I don't think that n can be zero. Dale Erwin Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03 Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org On 6/21/2013 1:37 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 18:27 21/06/2013 +, Jonathon 'Toki' Kantoor wrote: >> Is there a formula, extension, or something in calc that enables one >> to calculate the sum of 1..N, where N is an integer between 0 and 100 >> 000 000? > > Yes. Sigma (1 to n) is n(n+1)/2. > >> If so, what is the formula, extension, or something? > > =Xn*(Xn+1)/2 > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Paragraph breaks
At 16:27 21/06/2013 -0700, Sam Warren wrote: How do I search for extra paragraph breaks ... That depends on what you consider "extra" breaks! You probably mean consecutive paragraph breaks, in other words defining an empty paragraph - as would be (mis)used to space paragraphs by a user who thought the word processor was a typewriter. o In the Find & Replace dialogue, click More Options and ensure that "Regular expressions" is ticked. o Search for ^$ The circumflex locks your pattern to the start of a paragraph and the dollar sign to its end, so the pair represents an empty paragraph - what you need. ... and paragraph breaks with a space in front? o As above but search for " $" (no quotes) - that's space-dollar sign. I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Codes
There *is* a "reveal styles." It's in the Formatting Toolbar, where the style for the paragraph containing the cursor is clearly displayed. Press F11 and you'll get a list of all the available paragraph styles. Right click on any one of them, click "Modify" and you can see all of the formatting characteristics applying to that style. Make any formatting changes you want and they will apply to any paragraph having that particular style. As for other formatting parameters, you don't need a code to tell you that a word is in Boldface as it will appear in Boldface on the screen. Blue text will appear blue, and you won't need a code to tell that. Now, you may not know *why* the text is blue, but if you simply right click on the applied paragraph style in the style list, you can then change the character formatting to any color you want (the same as you would with direct formatting, just within the style itself). Once changed, all paragraphs having that paragraph style will automatically change to the new color. With WordPerfect, you'd have to go into each and every paragraph or column frame and manually change each one to the color you want. And, if you made a mistake in one of them, you'd end up with inconsistent formatting. Of course you could track it down with your reveal codes, but with styles, you wouldn't have to. It's not rocket science, but I'll agree that it is not intuitive to the typewriter model followed by WordPerfect. Let me give an example of the benefit of styles. Several years ago, my 14 year old son challenged himself to type a 50,000 word novel in November, which is National Novel Writers Month. He met his goal, and quickly dropped the project. As a proud papa, I wanted to put his document to paper. He wrote the original in WordPerfect, and it was a formatting mess, with stray tabs, carriage returns, and inconsistent formatting across chapter and section headings. Using WP's beloved reveal codes, I began the task of reformatting his 127 page novel. It didn't take long for me to realize it would take days and days to wade through all of the formatting codes inserted by WP. Instead, I saved the document as a plain text file, stripping all formatting. I then loaded it into LyX, which is a GUI LaTeX editor. LaTeX is the ultimate in styles-based document processing as there is no other way to do things. I applied the Part and Chapter styles, (called "environments" in LaTeX speak) to the part and chapter titles, and then inserted a fully formatted, numbered, and typed table of contents with a couple mouse clicks. I set NO page formatting parameters such as page margins, page numbering, etc., as those were handled entirely by the Book template (called "document class"). I then compiled the book and had a fully formatted novel, complete with Title page, Table of Contents, properly formatted right and left hand pages with fully formatted headers with page numbers, etc. The entire process took about a half hour. I surprised even myself. I could have done the same thing with OpenOffice's styles, but they're not quite as fully automatic as LyX/LaTeX, so it would have taken a bit longer, but not much. Yes, styles can be difficult to learn, much the same as learning a new cable TV remote control. But once learned, you'll appreciate all you can do with them, and you won't go back to the typewriter (or it's only begotten son, WordPerfect), just like I won't go back to rabbit ears for my TV. Virgil -Original Message- From: Tamblyne Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 5:29 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Codes Hi, Patricia -- Of course, you're going to be told -- and I can see that you already have -- that "you're not doing it right." Use styles. Styles will, apparently, take care everything, including promote world peace, as well as fix all that's wrong with your document. Perhaps if we asked for "reveal styles" instead of "reveal codes," we could get some progress on this issue. The View > Non-printing characters doesn't help much unless what you're looking for is carriage returns/line-feeds, as far as I can tell. It certainly doesn't tell me what styles are being applied to any given portion of the document. And it doesn't show formatting codes, either. As an "old" WP user (and aren't we all, at this point?), I argued passionately for this "enhancement" long ago. The fact that we were blown off then, and still are, is the reason I don't volunteer my time to this project anymore. The response to "use styles" doesn't solve the problem -- that being that you can't tell where an applied style begins or ends when you have a problem. Wait until you get a horizontal line under all of your paragraphs that you can't get rid of. That's even more fun! :-D You can spend time playing Document Detective -- or just CTRL-Z out of it and come up with some other way to format your document the way YOU want to. As to your particu
Paragraph breaks
How do I search for extra paragraph breaks and paragraph breaks with a space in front.? Thanks ♦ Sam
Re: [Possible values for n]
I realize that a variable can take any value, but some mathematical functions limit the possible values. It's been a long time for me, but I thought this particular function was stated as Sigma 1 to n = n*(n + 1) / 2 (where n > 1). You don't really have a series if n is not > 1. Or it might have been (where n <> 0). If you did allow the series to run backward (from 1 to 0) you would get Sigma 1 to 0 = 0 * 1 / 2 which evaluates to 0. Dale Erwin Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03 Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org On 6/21/2013 5:06 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 16:01 21/06/2013 -0500, Dale Erwin wrote: I don't think that n can be zero. Oh, it can - as can x, y, z, or whatever! As is well known in mathematics, a variable can take any value. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Calc: Easy way to do N+(N-1)+(N-2)+(N-3)..(N-N+1)
On 06/21/2013 09:01 PM, Dale Erwin wrote: > I don't think that n can be zero. When n is equal to zero, the result _should_ be zero. If there was division involved, there might be the potential for division by zero, which involves a little more error trapping. jonathon -- LibreOffice in a Multi-Lingual Environment. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Calc: Easy way to do N+(N-1)+(N-2)+(N-3)..(N-N+1)
On 06/21/2013 06:37 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > Yes. Sigma (1 to n) is n(n+1)/2. Thanks. >> If so, what is the formula, extension, or something? > > =Xn*(Xn+1)/2 > > I trust this helps. It helps a lot. I wish I had book that contained functions and their formula, that somebody that never took a match course could understand. jonathon -- LibreOffice in a Multi-Lingual Environment. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [Possible values for n]
At 16:01 21/06/2013 -0500, Dale Erwin wrote: I don't think that n can be zero. Oh, it can - as can x, y, z, or whatever! As is well known in mathematics, a variable can take any value. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Codes
Hi, Patricia -- Of course, you're going to be told -- and I can see that you already have -- that "you're not doing it right." Use styles. Styles will, apparently, take care everything, including promote world peace, as well as fix all that's wrong with your document. Perhaps if we asked for "reveal styles" instead of "reveal codes," we could get some progress on this issue. The View > Non-printing characters doesn't help much unless what you're looking for is carriage returns/line-feeds, as far as I can tell. It certainly doesn't tell me what styles are being applied to any given portion of the document. And it doesn't show formatting codes, either. As an "old" WP user (and aren't we all, at this point?), I argued passionately for this "enhancement" long ago. The fact that we were blown off then, and still are, is the reason I don't volunteer my time to this project anymore. The response to "use styles" doesn't solve the problem -- that being that you can't tell where an applied style begins or ends when you have a problem. Wait until you get a horizontal line under all of your paragraphs that you can't get rid of. That's even more fun! :-D You can spend time playing Document Detective -- or just CTRL-Z out of it and come up with some other way to format your document the way YOU want to. As to your particular issue, this blue text is often automatically applied to email addresses and hyperlinks, and you can change that under "character styles." As for reveal codes -- don't hold your breath. :-) Tam On 6/20/2013 6:54 PM, Patricia Hickin wrote: Is there any way to reveal codes in OO (the way you can in WordPerfect)? I am having a problem with the following: I am preparing a list of books as follows: In a table of two columns, I insert an image of the book cover in the first (a narrow) column. In the 2nd column I put info about the book: title, author, publisher & date. I have obtained the info from www.worldcat.org, compiled a list of the books, copied the list into Notepad to strip it of formatting. Next I copied the list into an OO text document and formatted it as follows: font Calibri color black title: 18 point bold italic author & publishing info (two separate lines): 15 point regular. For some reason, OO is changing the color of the publishing info to blue. I change it to black. but when I save it the color switches to blue!! It is driving me crazy!!! Any ideas?? Thanks!! Pat - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Calc: Easy way to do N+(N-1)+(N-2)+(N-3)..(N-N+1)
I don't think that n can be zero. Dale Erwin Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03 Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU http://leather.casaerwin.org On 6/21/2013 1:37 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 18:27 21/06/2013 +, Jonathon 'Toki' Kantoor wrote: Is there a formula, extension, or something in calc that enables one to calculate the sum of 1..N, where N is an integer between 0 and 100 000 000? Yes. Sigma (1 to n) is n(n+1)/2. If so, what is the formula, extension, or something? =Xn*(Xn+1)/2 I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Calc: Easy way to do N+(N-1)+(N-2)+(N-3)..(N-N+1)
At 18:27 21/06/2013 +, Jonathon 'Toki' Kantoor wrote: Is there a formula, extension, or something in calc that enables one to calculate the sum of 1..N, where N is an integer between 0 and 100 000 000? Yes. Sigma (1 to n) is n(n+1)/2. If so, what is the formula, extension, or something? =Xn*(Xn+1)/2 I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Calc: Easy way to do N+(N-1)+(N-2)+(N-3)..(N-N+1)
All: Is there a formula, extension, or something in calc that enables one to calculate the sum of 1..N, where N is an integer between 0 and 100 000 000? If so, what is the formula, extension, or something? jonathon -- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
