Recover previous documents

[Patricia Prinkey]

I do not know if or how to recover documents. I had to get another HD and with 
it went the open office documents. Any help would be appreciated.  Ty!

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mail merge - how to detach data after mail merge when printing to file

[Patricia Perasso]

Hello,


I have set up my mail merge correctly so that I merge data to a letter from
a spreadsheet. I print them to individual files. However, the data is then
still attached to the spreadsheet and I can’t seem to disconnect it.
Sometimes I need to format the information after it’s inputted, but I
can’t. Not only that, when I send the files to other people, they can’t see
the information.


Please help!


Thank you,

Patty

Re: F3

[Patricia]

Thank you ...

I just tried it - modified to  shift+F7
But it does nothing
Tried it with ctrl7 but again nothing.
I'm using OO 4.1.2 - could that be a problem ?

Appreciate you help.

Patricia.

> On 8 Jun 2017, at 12:56, Martin Groenescheij <mar...@groenescheij.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 08/06/17 7:12 PM, Patricia wrote:
>> I've set up auto text -  but on my Mac,
>> F3 opens Mission Control.
>> 
>> How can I get Autotext to function ???
> 
> If the F3 is used by your Operating System, you can assign and other Key.
> Go to Tools -> Customize Click on Keyboard and assign Autotext to an other 
> Key or Key Combination e.g. Cntr+F3
> OK you need to remember the changes as the Help file still refer to F3
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open office 4

[patricia]

I have been using this program for a long time and 4 months ago I reinstalled 
it just yesterday it “not responding” so I uninstalled, empty bin, restarted 
system, reinstalled and started using it and same thing, ran kasppersky, 
malawarebytes all is good. reinstalled, unplugged system took out battery 
restarte system reinstalled ran scan all night started using today started fine 
and then boom “not responding”
do you have a solution
patricia barrett

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Problems ?

[Patricia Sutton]

Earlier this week, I tried to open 1 document and it wouldn't open it, it
would open all of the other 7 or 8 though.  I tried shutting it down many
times and nothing.

Yesterday I brought up Open Office, but when clicking on the document
folder, it wouldn't open and I couldn't exit couldn't close it down,
couldn't do anything with it.  So I closed down my
computer.

Today, I opened it, opened the document folder and opened the document, but
the slide bar wouldn't work, can't close it down, can't do anything.

I am not very computer litterit, so I need someone's help

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Microsoft Is Blocking Access to My Open Office File

[Patricia Ring]

I had a free trial offer from Microsoft nearly a  year ago.  I never created 
one document on it.  My then, very old Windows XP couldn’t support it.

I just finally managed to convert my WPS file to a doc file, using Apache Open 
Office.

Now, when I attempt to open the file – a message from Microsoft disallows it -- 
 something like, “You are trying to use Microsoft Office,
but you don’t have it.”A lease offer for Office is included with their 
statement.

It has taken me such a long time to access my file.  It was absolutely never on 
Microsoft Word.
  I have the file and a backup copy of the file and they both now have 
Microsoft orange blocks next to the file names.

Does Microsoft own the file extention doc ? 
Can anything be done? 
I tried to reach a person to help me --  they’re all about signing me up for a 
Word Processing Lease to solve my problem.

How do I change the default font?

[Patricia Hickin]

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

Codes

[Patricia Hickin]

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

Re: Codes

[Patricia Hickin]

Thanks, Alexandro, I think I'm dense -- I look at each of the urls but I
don't see how any of them applies to my problem.

Pat


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote:

 Please learn to use the stylist, we have the document on our wiki and
 download on ODT and PDF here:

 http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Introduction_to_Styles
 Specifically creating styles

 http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Creating_paragraph_styles

 Specifically your documents should be style based, if your stiles are
 correct you could also clone, and inherit styles. Styles help you to
 mark the headers and index so you can add structure.

 http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Defining_hierarchy


 On 6/20/13, Patricia Hickin pph...@gmail.com 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
 


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Re: saving text file

[Patricia Hickin]

Windows 7


On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Kadal Amutham vka...@gmail.com wrote:

 What is the OS?

 With Warm Regards

 V.Kadal Amutham
 919444360480
 914422396480


 On 3 June 2013 06:32, Patricia Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote:

  I am suddenly impossible to save 2 separate files, both in Dropbox.  I
 have
  tried saving to a different location  that doesn't work either.
 
  What to do??
 
  Thanks,
  Pat
 

strip formatting??

[Patricia Hickin]

Is there a way to remove all formatting?

I am copying some items from a website (worldcat.org) to include in a
report and I want to do my own formatting so I would like to strip the
current formatting (font style,
size, color; italics, etc.

Is there a way to remove all the current formatting?

Thanks,
Pat

Re: Zooming in

[Patricia Hickin]

Well, I use my laptop *only* on my lap!
Are you saying there's no way to modify the program -- that seems
unbelievable to me!!

Pat



On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote:

 On 05/07/2013 10:07 PM, Patricia Hickin wrote:

 My computer zooms in on OpenOffice (and other) screens without my telling
 it to.
 (I have a laptop with touchpad).  I know it has something to do with the
 way I'm using my fingers on the touchpad but I can't quite figure out how
 to avoid it.

 Is there any way I can disable this feature?  It drives me crazy.

 (It happens with other programs too.)

 Thanks,

 Pat

  Easiest way is to use an external pointing device. If you are running
 Linux, install
 Synaptiks (note spelling) to automatically disable the touchpad when an
 external
 pointing device is plugged into the usb port.
 This is a perfect solution sol long as you are not actually using the
 computer
 on your lap!

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Thanks!! plus borders problem

[Patricia Hickin]

Thanks you *so* much for your suggestions -- they worked like a charm.  I
used the Table option, instead of the columns, and it looks great!

One more question.  I am trying to add a border with a shadow, but the
border will *not* appear!  I go to Format  Page  and click on the Borders
tab, choose  5 pt, color green -- but nothing shows.  If I add a shadow,
the shadow shows but not the border. (I have tried with margins set at both
.5 and .8.)  Although I click OK at the end, when I return to the same
formatting option, the 0.05pt option is selected instead of the 5.0.  Any
ideas??

Thanks again,
Pat


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:

 On Sun, 5 May 2013 20:41:22 -0400
 Patricia Hickin pph...@gmail.com wrote:

  Thanks for your response, Johnny.  This time I had no problem creating
 the
  two columns where I wanted them.
 
  But I don't know how to get my cursor to go into column 2.  (I have a
  laptop and use the touchpad).
 
  Pat
 
 
  On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Johnny Rosenberg 
 gurus.knu...@gmail.comwrote:
 
   2013/5/5 Patricia Hickin pph...@gmail.com:
Is this the place to get help with a text document?
I am trying to insert a picture and put text to the right of the
 image.
I
can put text above or below, but not beside the image.
  
   What did you try? I had no problems at all doing this.
  
   
Also I want to divide the page into two columns, beginning about 2
 or 3
inches from the top, but instead it divided the entire page into two
columns.
  
   
So, two questions:
   
How to get text to the right of an image?
  
  
   1. Insert your image.
   2. Right click the image, click ”Image…” (or whatever it says; I run
   OpenOffice in Swedish).
   3. Select the Text adjustment tab (I don't have a clue what its
   English name is, just select one that seems to do what you want…).
   4. Select what you think will give you the result you want.
  
   Or:
   1. See 1 above.
   2. Right click the image, click Text adjustment (or whatever the
   English name is), click one of the options that seem to do what you
   want.
  
  
 and how to divide a page into two or more columns, beginning 2-3
 from
   the
top?
  
   1. Select the text that you want to have in two columns.
   2. Click Insert → Section (again, I'm not sure about the English name
   of this option).
   3. Click the column tab of the new dialogue that pops up and edit the
   settings to suit your needs.
  
   
 
 When you are setting up  your section to use columns (or afterwards by
 /Format /Section :Options) there is a checkbox to evenly distribute
 contents to all columns.  If this is not what  you want, uncheck this
 option. Then when you have entered sufficient text in Column One or
 position your cursor where you need the break, use /Insert /Break :Column
 break and cursor will move to Column two.  To exit the Column section use
 Alt Enter.

 It may be that  you do not need to use a Column section.  Perhaps a two
 column table will be what  you need, to allow you enter text left and its
 matching text right.


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Re: Thanks!! plus borders problem

[Patricia Hickin]

Yes!!  That did it!  Thanks so much!!

Pat


On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.comwrote:

 At 13:52 06/05/2013 -0400, Patricia Hickin wrote:

 I am trying to add a border with a shadow, but the border will *not*
 appear!  I go to Format  Page and click on the Borders tab, choose 5 pt,
 color green -- but nothing shows.  If I add a shadow, the shadow shows but
 not the border.


 As well as setting the style and colour of the border (and shadow), you
 need to select something under Line arrangement to indicate on which
 sides you want the border to appear.  You can pick something under Default
 - you may want the second icon from the left, indicating all four sides -
 or make your own selection in the picture panel below.  If you don't make
 this selection, you get the left icon by default, which is nothing!


  Although I click OK at the end, when I return to the same formatting
 option, the 0.05pt option is selected instead of the 5.0.


 That's because you (so far) asked for no border, so the style selection is
 forgotten.

 I trust this helps.

 Brian Barker



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Problems with inserting graphics, columns

[Patricia Hickin]

Is this the place to get help with a text document?
I am trying to insert a picture and put text to the right of the image.  I
can put text above or below, but not beside the image.

Also I want to divide the page into two columns, beginning about 2 or 3
inches from the top, but instead it divided the entire page into two
columns.

So, two questions:

How to get text to the right of an image?
 and how to divide a page into two or more columns, beginning 2-3 from the
top?

Thanks,
Pat