Re: [users] Recovery pages won't close
You could uninstall-reinstall, but that wouldn't solve your 'small screen' problem, so you might wind up next week in the same fix. Then again, you would also have to watch out that the re-installed version didn't change too many of your settings. I recently upgraded to 3.2, and I'm still rummaging around in there trying to reset my settings like I had them before. Good luck. --- EDL Jr. From: Patrice Hall path...@earthlink.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Wed, November 24, 2010 12:37:05 PM Subject: [users] Recovery pages won't close Hi - This is kind of lame but. . .There was an issue with a doc I was opening in OpenOffice 3.2. A recovery screen came up on my netbook - however, because of my small screen I can't view the entire doc (its says Sending the error report) - and it won't close - because I can't scroll down to hit send and just sits there. . .every time I power on. Any thoughts on what I might do? I tried closing it with the Task manager - but, it reappears every time I turn my netbook on. I'm probably going to uninstall Open Office. . .but, thought I'd check with you. Happy Turkey day. Patrice - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Dates into Calc
OOo 3.2.1 Vista Home Premium, Calc I have a web page showing a table of dates and associated events. The dates, all in the same year (2011) are in the style, for example Sun Oct 23. If I copy/paste the table into Calc, the example date I just gave comes across as 01/10/2023. How do I fix this so that the dates come across correctly? Calc's Paste Special option doesn't seem to help. I have tried saving the table as a CSV file by copy/pasting the web table into a text editor and then opening that file in Calc but the result is the same. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] How does OOo store Writer images?
A Write document is corrupt but I can use Stuffit to open it and get at the files but I can't find the very important images. Does OOo store then as PNG or PICT or JPG? Also, does OOo convert image files pasted into a Write doc? Thanks! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
Den 2010-11-28 15:03:15 skrev James Greenidge ji...@mac.com: A Write document is corrupt but I can use Stuffit to open it and get at the files but I can't find the very important images. Does OOo store then as PNG or PICT or JPG? Also, does OOo convert image files pasted into a Write doc? Thanks! Are your images in your writer document or are they linked to from writer? If the latter, there are no images in the ODF. Otherwise I guess OpenOffice.org Writer stores them in their original format in a separate folder (”Images”?), but I'm not 100 % sure about that. -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-11-28 15:03:15 skrev James Greenidge ji...@mac.com: A Write document is corrupt but I can use Stuffit to open it and get at the files but I can't find the very important images. Does OOo store then as PNG or PICT or JPG? Also, does OOo convert image files pasted into a Write doc? Thanks! Are your images in your writer document or are they linked to from writer? If the latter, there are no images in the ODF. Otherwise I guess OpenOffice.org Writer stores them in their original format in a separate folder (”Images”?), but I'm not 100 % sure about that. The images are stored in their own folder within the odf file. This folder is named Picture. As mentioned by the previous poster, the images are stored in the odf file only if they have been embedded into the writer document. If you had chosen to only link the images, the ODF file will only contain a link to where the images were located when you made the link to the images. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Delete Section Break
On 20/11/2010 12:42, Brian Barker wrote: At 10:29 20/11/2010 +, Harold Fuchs wrote: OOo 3.2.1 on Win XP Pro How do I delete the break between two sections? In other words, how do I combine two adjacent sections into one? Put the cursor in front of the first character in the second section and press Backspace. In my 3.1.1, this appears to combine the sections, with the new combined section inheriting the properties of the first. It's like page breaks, in other words. I trust this helps. Brian Barker This doesn't work for me. The text after the cursor moves but the section itself stays. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Delete Section Break
On 20/11/2010 12:27, Mike Scott wrote: On 20/11/10 10:29, Harold Fuchs wrote: OOo 3.2.1 on Win XP Pro How do I delete the break between two sections? In other words, how do I combine two adjacent sections into one? TIA. The only way I can see is to delete the sections (illogically, under format|section) and make a new one. You can, it seems though, create the new one first by selecting both and using insert|section; they seem to nest happily. Thanks. This works. I'd have thought that deleting a section would remove the text but apparently not. I've decided I don't understand sections, even after reading the OOo documents - perhaps I've read the wrong ones - so I'm going to start a separate thread. -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Sections
I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer but I've decided I don't understand the thinking behind them. Perhaps some would explain it to me: If I create a new blank Writer document, type a few lines and then insert a section, a few things are puzzling: 1. The new section is named section 1. Why not section 2? Why isn't the text *before* the new section considered to be Section 1? Of course, programmers prefer to count from zero ;-) but the text above the new section isn't Section 0 either ... 2. The text before the new section doesn't seem to belong to any section. I don't seem to be able to format it like I can the new section. What is happening here? 3. When I create the new section, a faint box appears on the screen and the cursor jumps to a point *below* the bottom of this box. But where the cursor is doesn't seen to be a section (section 2?) either. 4. If I set the Navigator to select Sections then Next section and Previous section behave strangely (to my eyes): If the cursor is *inside* the new section then Next Section and Previous Section do nothing. If the cursor is in the text above the top (below the bottom) of the new section then Next (Previous) Section jumps into the new section. So the cursor can be made to jump into the new section but not out of it:-( 5. If I new insert a new section *inside* the one I just made then it is named Section 2 and the old Section 1 seems to have divided into two - part above and part below the new section. If I format Section 1 (say by making it into multiple columns) then both halves of the section acquire the new format. 6. If the cursor is inside Section 2 then Previous Section moves it into the top half of Section 1 but Next Section does nothing. There's obviously a fundamental something which I'm misunderstanding. Please ... -- Harold Fuchs London, England Please reply *only* to users@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Sections
Hi Harold, I've used sections quite a bit and I think I understand how they work for the most part, although I also haven't thought about things quite as deeply as you obviously have! :) Comments in line ... Harold Fuchs wrote: I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer but I've decided I don't understand the thinking behind them. Perhaps some would explain it to me: If I create a new blank Writer document, type a few lines and then insert a section, a few things are puzzling: 1. The new section is named section 1. Why not section 2? Why isn't the text *before* the new section considered to be Section 1? Of course, programmers prefer to count from zero ;-) but the text above the new section isn't Section 0 either ... A section doesn't exist unless you specifically create one. There probably could have been different terminology used instead of the word section, although I can't think of a better term at the moment. So when you create a section after typing a few lines, the section you create is indeed the first section, or section 1. What you typed before isn't a section. Might not make sense but that's the way it is ... 2. The text before the new section doesn't seem to belong to any section. I don't seem to be able to format it like I can the new section. What is happening here? Well, because it isn't a section. If you want to format that text like a section, you need to highlight it and then choose Insert Section. 3. When I create the new section, a faint box appears on the screen and the cursor jumps to a point *below* the bottom of this box. But where the cursor is doesn't seen to be a section (section 2?) either. That's correct; kind of unusual/unexpected behaviour in my opinion. But to type text in Section 1, which you just created, just click in the faint box and you'll be in Section 1. 4. If I set the Navigator to select Sections then Next section and Previous section behave strangely (to my eyes): If the cursor is *inside* the new section then Next Section and Previous Section do nothing. If the cursor is in the text above the top (below the bottom) of the new section then Next (Previous) Section jumps into the new section. So the cursor can be made to jump into the new section but not out of it:-( I usually don't use the Navigator so I can't shed any insight into this observation. 5. If I new insert a new section *inside* the one I just made then it is named Section 2 and the old Section 1 seems to have divided into two - part above and part below the new section. If I format Section 1 (say by making it into multiple columns) then both halves of the section acquire the new format. Yes -- this seems unexpected as well. I can see that formatting Section 1 might affect Section 2, because Section 2 was created as a sort of subset of Section 1. But I also tried formatting section 2 as 4 columns, while Section 1 was already formatted as 2 columns. Formatting Section 2 changed the number of columns in Section 1. I can experiment with this some more, but it's more like they're a single section rather than two sections. 6. If the cursor is inside Section 2 then Previous Section moves it into the top half of Section 1 but Next Section does nothing. There's obviously a fundamental something which I'm misunderstanding. Please ... I'm sure I haven't helped much. To corrupt the words of Brian Barker, I trust this doesn't help. But if it's any consolation, I do find sections extremely useful, if a little mysterious. I edit the newsletter for our local orienteering club, and I make very extensive use of sections. For example, if I want the heading for an article to span the width of the page, but the article to be in two columns, this is a perfect use for sections. There are many other uses also. As I've said, I haven't thought about their peculiarities nearly as deeply as you have! When I find something that seems a bit unexpected, I just accept it and roll with it. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Delete Section Break
At 15:41 28/11/2010 +, Harold Fuchs wrote: On 20/11/2010 12:42, Brian Barker wrote: At 10:29 20/11/2010 +, Harold Fuchs wrote: OOo 3.2.1 on Win XP Pro How do I delete the break between two sections? In other words, how do I combine two adjacent sections into one? Put the cursor in front of the first character in the second section and press Backspace. In my 3.1.1, this appears to combine the sections, with the new combined section inheriting the properties of the first. It's like page breaks, in other words. This doesn't work for me. The text after the cursor moves but the section itself stays. That's not particularly clear. Do you mean that the text of the second section moves into the first? If so, you simply need to delete the second section. If not, in what way does it move? Are the sections adjacent, or is the second actually embedded in the first? Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Sections
At 16:03 28/11/2010 +, Harold Fuchs wrote: I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer but I've decided I don't understand the thinking behind them. Perhaps some would explain it to me: If I create a new blank Writer document, type a few lines and then insert a section, a few things are puzzling: 1. The new section is named section 1. Why not section 2? Why isn't the text *before* the new section considered to be Section 1? Of course, programmers prefer to count from zero ;-) but the text above the new section isn't Section 0 either ... Because the text before the new section is not a section at all - just part of the document. You may be thinking in Word-speak, where a section is actually a section *break*, and all text is (I think) in sections, divided by these section breaks. In Writer, your newly inserted section is indeed the first. 2. The text before the new section doesn't seem to belong to any section. I don't seem to be able to format it like I can the new section. What is happening here? You are correct: it is not in a section, so you cannot use any techniques that apply to sections. But you can apply many formatting options using paragraph or - more likely - page formatting. 3. When I create the new section, a faint box appears on the screen and the cursor jumps to a point *below* the bottom of this box. But where the cursor is doesn't seen to be a section (section 2?) either. Correct: just like the material before your one and only section, anything you put here will be outside any section. 4. If I set the Navigator to select Sections then Next section and Previous section behave strangely (to my eyes): If the cursor is *inside* the new section then Next Section and Previous Section do nothing. If the cursor is in the text above the top (below the bottom) of the new section then Next (Previous) Section jumps into the new section. So the cursor can be made to jump into the new section but not out of it:-( This all makes sense if you see your document as containing one section, not three. If you are inside the section, there is no other section to move to: neither a previous nor a next one. If you are outside that section, you can indeed move to it as the next or previous (and only) section, as appropriate. 5. If I new insert a new section *inside* the one I just made then it is named Section 2 and the old Section 1 seems to have divided into two - part above and part below the new section. If I format Section 1 (say by making it into multiple columns) then both halves of the section acquire the new format. The two sections are nested. Section 1 is indeed divided, and any formatting applied to it should apply to all of it - both parts, that is. That's exactly what I would hope and expect. 6. If the cursor is inside Section 2 then Previous Section moves it into the top half of Section 1 but Next Section does nothing. Moving to a section appears to mean moving to the beginning of that section. If you are in Section 2, the beginning of Section 1 is another section and before it, so it makes sense for Previous Section to move there. But there is no beginning of a section later than this, so Next Section has nowhere to go. I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Sections
At 12:53 28/11/2010 -0500, Richard Detwiler wrote: I'm sure I haven't helped much. To corrupt the words of Brian Barker, I trust this doesn't help. On the contrary, what you said makes a lot of sense. But thanks for the laugh! For example, if I want the heading for an article to span the width of the page, but the article to be in two columns, this is a perfect use for sections. Exactly so! Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] how to set x character and lines per page ?
Hello I am writing a book and I need to format it in a way as to know how man pages of text I have reached. I need 55 character/spaces x 30 lines per page Thank you Victor
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
On 11/28/10 10:04 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-11-28 15:03:15 skrev James Greenidge ji...@mac.com: A Write document is corrupt but I can use Stuffit to open it and get at the files but I can't find the very important images. Does OOo store then as PNG or PICT or JPG? Also, does OOo convert image files pasted into a Write doc? Thanks! Are your images in your writer document or are they linked to from writer? If the latter, there are no images in the ODF. Otherwise I guess OpenOffice.org Writer stores them in their original format in a separate folder (”Images”?), but I'm not 100 % sure about that. The images are stored in their own folder within the odf file. This folder is named Picture. As mentioned by the previous poster, the images are stored in the odf file only if they have been embedded into the writer document. If you had chosen to only link the images, the ODF file will only contain a link to where the images were located when you made the link to the images. Dan Thanks for the swift answer! I found several files in Pictures folder which have several files with long random numbers as filenames which my Mac image readers won't even list. Are they real image files and are they PNG or PICT or JPG and MOV like my image readers are expecting? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] OpenOffice x Outlook/Exchange
We intend to install OpenOffice in our office and I would like to know how can I use the OpenOffice's text editor and spell checker as default editor Outlook (2003 and 2007 version). Note: We can not uninstall/ discharge the Outlook version already installed. Sincerely, Gerson Fregoneze Analista de Sistemas [cid:image001.jpg@01CB4B59.25487830] T +55 11 3202 9616 F +55 11 3202 9620 E gerson.fregon...@amrop-pmc.com.brmailto:gerson.fregon...@amrop-pmc.com.br W http://www.amrop-pmc.com.br This e-mail and any attachment(s) are intended only for use by the addressee(s) and may contain privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, any dissemination, distribution, taking of any action, printing or copying of this e-mail and/or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify us by phoning +55 11 3202 9600, and delete the e-mail immediately. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Sections
At 16:03 28/11/2010 +, Harold Fuchs wrote: 3. When I create the new section, a faint box appears on the screen and the cursor jumps to a point *below* the bottom of this box. I perhaps missed the significance of this point the first time around. o If you have nothing selected when you insert a section, you get an empty section where the cursor is. So if you insert a section in an empty document, you get an empty section at the start, with the cursor outside the section and following it. o If you have something selected when you insert a section, the new section is created containing that material. If you start with an empty document, but then press Shift+Right Arrow or Ctrl+Shift+End, you apparently select the nothing that you so far have in your document. Why do I think this? If you then insert the section, the cursor appears inside the section! Perhaps this might also help ... Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] how to set x character and lines per page ?
Den 2010-11-26 22:38:54 skrev Victor Stapelberg vstapel...@gmail.com: Hello I am writing a book and I need to format it in a way as to know how man pages of text I have reached. I need 55 character/spaces x 30 lines per page Thank you Victor What do you mean by ”55 characters/spaces”? Depending on your font, ”M” might take the same space as ”iii”, so is it 55 ”M” or 55 ”i” or do you intend to use a fixed font, like FreeMono, Courier or similar? -- Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
James Greenidge wrote: On 11/28/10 10:04 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-11-28 15:03:15 skrev James Greenidge ji...@mac.com: A Write document is corrupt but I can use Stuffit to open it and get at the files but I can't find the very important images. Does OOo store then as PNG or PICT or JPG? Also, does OOo convert image files pasted into a Write doc? Thanks! Are your images in your writer document or are they linked to from writer? If the latter, there are no images in the ODF. Otherwise I guess OpenOffice.org Writer stores them in their original format in a separate folder (”Images”?), but I'm not 100 % sure about that. The images are stored in their own folder within the odf file. This folder is named Picture. As mentioned by the previous poster, the images are stored in the odf file only if they have been embedded into the writer document. If you had chosen to only link the images, the ODF file will only contain a link to where the images were located when you made the link to the images. Dan Thanks for the swift answer! I found several files in Pictures folder which have several files with long random numbers as filenames which my Mac image readers won't even list. Are they real image files and are they PNG or PICT or JPG and MOV like my image readers are expecting? They are real images. I save an embedded picture (JPEG file) in a Writer document. When I unzipped the document, the file in the Picture folder contained a JPEG file. When I did the same thing when embedding a PNG picture in a Writer document, the Picture folder contained a PNG file. My conclusion: the image files in the Picture folder are the image formats as the image format of the image embedded in the Writer document. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Sections
On Monday 29 November 2010 05:03, Harold Fuchs wrote: I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer but I've decided I don't understand the thinking behind them. Perhaps some would explain it to me: If I create a new blank Writer document, type a few lines and then insert a section, a few things are puzzling: 1. The new section is named section 1. Why not section 2? You can call a section anything you like, just rename it where it suggests the section name. Why isn't the text *before* the new section considered to be Section 1? It is a section within a document you are creating. any text outside sections is just part of the default document. Of course, programmers prefer to count from zero ;-) but the text above the new section isn't Section 0 either ... Programmers use whatever the default of the programming language is. IIRC correctly Delphi starts counting array elements from one. It is just that zero is a valid number in binary storage. 2. The text before the new section doesn't seem to belong to any section. I don't seem to be able to format it like I can the new section. What is happening here? Any text below your new section behaves this way to. You can format it exactly the same as any section text. You just cannot format it from the section dialogue box. Sections within a document are optional parts of that document. 3. When I create the new section, a faint box appears on the screen and the cursor jumps to a point *below* the bottom of this box. But where the cursor is doesn't seen to be a section (section 2?) either. You are right, the cursor is not in the section. Before you created the section the cursor (i call it the blinker) was not in a section. After creation the blinker is not in a section. 4. If I set the Navigator to select Sections then Next section and Previous section behave strangely (to my eyes): If the cursor is *inside* the new section then Next Section and Previous Section do nothing. If the cursor is in the text above the top (below the bottom) of the new section then Next (Previous) Section jumps into the new section. So the cursor can be made to jump into the new section but not out of it:-( Depends on how many sections you have created. 5. If I new insert a new section *inside* the one I just made then it is named Section 2 and the old Section 1 seems to have divided into two - part above and part below the new section. If I format Section 1 (say by making it into multiple columns) then both halves of the section acquire the new format. Correct, you have created a section within a section, Just like Section 1 was created within the document. Think of it as the creation of a margin to margin container or box. 6. If the cursor is inside Section 2 then Previous Section moves it into the top half of Section 1 but Next Section does nothing. Section 2 as you have created it is a child of Section 1. I don't know of any valid use for this layout at this stage. Next Section may not be programmed to understand the child-parent relationship. If you create 2 or more independant sections with the document as the parent, Next and Previous Section behave as i would expect. There's obviously a fundamental something which I'm misunderstanding. Please ... A document does not need any sections at all, they are optonal like line numbers or bullets. Sections have a specific use, for me the best use is column control. The attached document may help you understand it better. I have labelled each paragraph and section name by it's place within the docoment. I can navigate by clicking a section name in the navigator and using the up [↑] and down [↓] arrow keys. Then to place the blinker in the section i tap enter. HTH -- Michael Sections.odt Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: OpenOffice x Outlook/Exchange
From: Gerson Fregoneze gerson.fregon...@amrop-pmc.com.br | We intend to install OpenOffice in our office and I would like to know how can I use | the OpenOffice's text editor and spell checker as default editor Outlook (2003 and 2007 | version). | Note: We can not uninstall/ discharge the Outlook version already installed. | Sincerely, Probably not as Outlook is hardwired for its own editor or Microsoft Word. It doesn't work with any other editors. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Dates into Calc
At 13:31 28/11/2010 +, Harold Fuchs wrote: OOo 3.2.1 Vista Home Premium, Calc I have a web page showing a table of dates and associated events. The dates, all in the same year (2011) are in the style, for example Sun Oct 23. If I copy/paste the table into Calc, the example date I just gave comes across as 01/10/2023. How do I fix this so that the dates come across correctly? Calc's Paste Special option doesn't seem to help. I have tried saving the table as a CSV file by copy/pasting the web table into a text editor and then opening that file in Calc but the result is the same. I don't think you can achieve what you really want: some way of pasting this that gives rise directly to correct dates. You have two pasting options, I think: with General formatting, you see a wrongly interpreted date; with cells previously formatted as Text, you will preserve the original form. In either case, you then need a little processing to form the original date that you need. o In the first case (where you see 01/10/2023), try: =DATE(2011;MONTH(A1);MOD(YEAR(A1);100)) o In the second case (where you see Sun Oct 23), try: =DATEVALUE(MID(A1;9;2) MID(A1;5;3) 2011) In this case, you will need to format the results cell as Date to see what you need. You can either paste the results back over the originals (using Paste Special...) or hide the original values if you prefer, of course. I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] how to set x character and lines per page ?
On Saturday 27 November 2010 10:38, Victor Stapelberg wrote: Hello I am writing a book and I need to format it in a way as to know how man pages of text I have reached. I need 55 character/spaces x 30 lines per page To set these you need to think slightly outside the box. Mainly because modern fonts are variable in height and width. More than that each letter has a different width. Typing 20 'i's and 20 'm's will demonstrate that. You need to therefore choose a monospaced font. Look for Courier or Courier New on a windows computer. Try the same experiment again and you will see all characters are the same width. Now type the numbers below. You can then set the size of the font to the largest that will allow it all on one page, then adjust the page margins (See Format - Page from the menu) using top and bottom margins to get your number of lines. In the paragraph setup (Format - Paragraph) you may need to set the space above and below each paragraph to 0mm, 0cm or 0inches. I would also recommend reading the getting started manual from the support/documentation section of the website. Hope that helps 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
On 11/28/10 2:20 PM, Daniel Lewis wrote: James Greenidge wrote: On 11/28/10 10:04 AM, Daniel Lewis wrote: Johnny Rosenberg wrote: Den 2010-11-28 15:03:15 skrev James Greenidge ji...@mac.com: A Write document is corrupt but I can use Stuffit to open it and get at the files but I can't find the very important images. Does OOo store then as PNG or PICT or JPG? Also, does OOo convert image files pasted into a Write doc? Thanks! Are your images in your writer document or are they linked to from writer? If the latter, there are no images in the ODF. Otherwise I guess OpenOffice.org Writer stores them in their original format in a separate folder (”Images”?), but I'm not 100 % sure about that. The images are stored in their own folder within the odf file. This folder is named Picture. As mentioned by the previous poster, the images are stored in the odf file only if they have been embedded into the writer document. If you had chosen to only link the images, the ODF file will only contain a link to where the images were located when you made the link to the images. Dan Thanks for the swift answer! I found several files in Pictures folder which have several files with long random numbers as filenames which my Mac image readers won't even list. Are they real image files and are they PNG or PICT or JPG and MOV like my image readers are expecting? They are real images. I save an embedded picture (JPEG file) in a Writer document. When I unzipped the document, the file in the Picture folder contained a JPEG file. When I did the same thing when embedding a PNG picture in a Writer document, the Picture folder contained a PNG file. My conclusion: the image files in the Picture folder are the image formats as the image format of the image embedded in the Writer document. Dan O.K, now that you state that things might get more complex, so please bear with this non-techie and that this all on Mac OOo. Firstly, I learned that the Writer images were not file imported into the Writer document but directly cut-and-pasted from Graphic Converter (a fine Photoshop workalike) after being resized from both JPG and GIF and PNG originals (we found only BMP can be directly imported as a file without the Sections menu appearing). So, would these images be cut and pasted into Writer in their original format or converted by OOo into a native OOo image format? That said, how can we tell what image formats these files in the Picture folder are to do anything with them, and more, how do you make image viewers (and future re-pasting) see them with their odd long all numbers non-image format file names? Hope I spelled it out coherently! Thanks! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] how to set x character and lines per page ?
2010/11/28 Michael Adams mbad...@paradise.net.nz: On Saturday 27 November 2010 10:38, Victor Stapelberg wrote: Hello I am writing a book and I need to format it in a way as to know how man pages of text I have reached. I need 55 character/spaces x 30 lines per page Hello Victor, For the 55 characters and spaces per line: see previous answers (hope you saw them, since you're not subscribed to this list). In essence: Use a monospace font like Courier, otherwise mmm takes more space than iii. (I think it a bit strange that you are forced to use a monospaced font. A book would rather imply you have a fixed width of the bloc of text, not a fixed number of -equal width- characters.) For the 30 lines per page: 1- you can set line numbering (Tools Line Numbering) - you only need to set the 30th line... 2- you can set top and bottom margins in order to leave only room for 30 lines (keeping in mind not to leave extra space above or below paragraphs (Format Paragrapgh Indents Spacing Spacing = 0) HTH -- Guy using LibO 3.3.0 and OOo 3.3.0 on a iMac Intel DualCore Snow Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
On Sun Nov 28 2010 12:48:29 GMT-0800 (PST) James Greenidge wrote: O.K, now that you state that things might get more complex, so please bear with this non-techie and that this all on Mac OOo. Firstly, I learned that the Writer images were not file imported into the Writer document but directly cut-and-pasted from Graphic Converter (a fine Photoshop workalike) after being resized from both JPG and GIF and PNG originals (we found only BMP can be directly imported as a file without the Sections menu appearing). So, would these images be cut and pasted into Writer in their original format or converted by OOo into a native OOo image format? That said, how can we tell what image formats these files in the Picture folder are to do anything with them, and more, how do you make image viewers (and future re-pasting) see them with their odd long all numbers non-image format file names? Hope I spelled it out coherently! Thanks! The pictures are stored in the format/ext they were imported in. You are saying cut and pasted it seem that is dependent on the native format of where they were cut from. Are you not seeing a file extension? You can extract the picture folder from the archive and rename the files with a shorter name to see if your viewer will recognize them. Use your archive tool to extract them. If all else fails you can send me a copy and I will extract them for you. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
The pictures are stored in the format/ext they were imported in. You are saying cut and pasted it seem that is dependent on the native format of where they were cut from. Are you not seeing a file extension? You can extract the picture folder from the archive and rename the files with a shorter name to see if your viewer will recognize them. Use your archive tool to extract them. If all else fails you can send me a copy and I will extract them for you. Andy Hello, Did a quick test: - a cut and pasted picture doesn't seem to trigger a folder 'Pictures' in the odt folder - an inserted picture (Insert Picture From File) appears in the 'Pictures' folder in the odt zip -- Guy using LibO 3.3.0 and OOo 3.3.0on a iMac Intel DualCore Snow Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
On Sun Nov 28 2010 13:28:16 GMT-0800 (PST) Guy Voets wrote: The pictures are stored in the format/ext they were imported in. You are saying cut and pasted it seem that is dependent on the native format of where they were cut from. Are you not seeing a file extension? You can extract the picture folder from the archive and rename the files with a shorter name to see if your viewer will recognize them. Use your archive tool to extract them. If all else fails you can send me a copy and I will extract them for you. Andy Hello, Did a quick test: - a cut and pasted picture doesn't seem to trigger a folder 'Pictures' in the odt folder - an inserted picture (Insert Picture From File) appears in the 'Pictures' folder in the odt zip That is strange as here it does. I opened a jpg in gimp, cut and pasted it into a new Writer document. Saved the doc then closed Writer open the ODT with Archive Manager and the directory is there with the picture, in PNG format. This all done under Ubuntu and Go-oo v 3.2 will test with OOo 3.3RC6. Andy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Recovery pages won't close
You might try one of the addresses that I got from my orignnal subscription message. Send mail to the following for info and FAQ for this list: users-i...@openoffice.org users-...@openoffice.org Good luck! - Original Message - From: Carin Gala caring...@hotmail.com To: users@openoffice.org; path...@earthlink.net Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 4:53 PM Subject: RE: [users] Recovery pages won't close Hello would anybody mind telling me how to get off this mailing list?! Mailing unsubscribe to: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org didn't work. Thank you Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 05:15:09 -0800 From: edl...@yahoo.com To: users@openoffice.org; path...@earthlink.net Subject: Re: [users] Recovery pages won't close You could uninstall-reinstall, but that wouldn't solve your 'small screen' problem, so you might wind up next week in the same fix. Then again, you would also have to watch out that the re-installed version didn't change too many of your settings. I recently upgraded to 3.2, and I'm still rummaging around in there trying to reset my settings like I had them before. Good luck. --- EDL Jr. From: Patrice Hall path...@earthlink.net To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Wed, November 24, 2010 12:37:05 PM Subject: [users] Recovery pages won't close Hi - This is kind of lame but. . .There was an issue with a doc I was opening in OpenOffice 3.2. A recovery screen came up on my netbook - however, because of my small screen I can't view the entire doc (its says Sending the error report) - and it won't close - because I can't scroll down to hit send and just sits there. . .every time I power on. Any thoughts on what I might do? I tried closing it with the Task manager - but, it reappears every time I turn my netbook on. I'm probably going to uninstall Open Office. . .but, thought I'd check with you. Happy Turkey day. Patrice - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Recovery pages won't close
On Sun Nov 28 2010 13:53:16 GMT-0800 (PST) Carin Gala wrote: Hello would anybody mind telling me how to get off this mailing list?! Mailing unsubscribe to: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org didn't work. Thank you Did you get a message from the server when you sent in the message? If so, did you reply to the message? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Sections
On 11/28/2010 11:03 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote: I've read some of the documentation on Sections in OOo Writer but I've decided I don't understand the thinking behind them. Perhaps some would explain it to me: If I create a new blank Writer document, type a few lines and then insert a section, a few things are puzzling: 1. The new section is named section 1. Why not section 2? Why isn't the text *before* the new section considered to be Section 1?... I think you can add sections to the list of things in OOo with confusing names. I say this because most people naturally associate the word section with document sections, but Writer's sections are not document sections at all. A section in Writer is merely a container for some arbitrary document content; it might contain one word, one line, one page, or the entire document text. The default names, e.g. Section 1, also suggest document sections, or at least some ordered sequence, but that's also misleading. A section named Section 100 could come first in the document, and Section 1 at the end: the name is purely an identifier. You could just as well call it Section Fred. There are two distinguishing uses for sections that I can think of off the top of my head: a text layout change that occurs somewhere within a page (i.e. not at a page boundary), and for repeating some content multiple times (cloning). For example, you need two-column running text, but the first page should have a full-width, single column title and first paragraph above the two-column text. You can make the page layout single column (just for the initial title and first paragraph), then put all the remaining text into a section that provides two-column layout. The division has nothing to do with the document sections; it's just an arbitrary container that provides a defined region that is to receive some specific content and formatting. I guess sections are similar to frames, but they don't float; they're part of the text flow. Joe - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] How does OOo store Writer images?
RA Brown wrote: On Sun Nov 28 2010 13:28:16 GMT-0800 (PST) Guy Voets wrote: The pictures are stored in the format/ext they were imported in. You are saying cut and pasted it seem that is dependent on the native format of where they were cut from. Are you not seeing a file extension? You can extract the picture folder from the archive and rename the files with a shorter name to see if your viewer will recognize them. Use your archive tool to extract them. If all else fails you can send me a copy and I will extract them for you. Andy Hello, Did a quick test: - a cut and pasted picture doesn't seem to trigger a folder 'Pictures' in the odt folder - an inserted picture (Insert Picture From File) appears in the 'Pictures' folder in the odt zip That is strange as here it does. I opened a jpg in gimp, cut and pasted it into a new Writer document. Saved the doc then closed Writer open the ODT with Archive Manager and the directory is there with the picture, in PNG format. This all done under Ubuntu and Go-oo v 3.2 will test with OOo 3.3RC6. Andy Since the question involved Mac OS X, I created a writer document and saved it using my MacBook (10.4) with OOo from the OOo website. Then I cut an paste a PNG file into the document and saved it again. I do not have Stuffit on my MacBook. (Both saves was to my thumb drive (flash drive). I then opened the writer document on my Ubuntu 10.4 LST so that I could use my archive manager. The Picture folder was present with one file: the same PNG file that I had pasted into the writer document with a very long file name. While I do not have Stuffit, when a compressed file is opened in Stuffit; can you Control+Click on the file in the Picture folder and open it with Preview? (For people who do not use a Mac, Control+Click does the same thing that a right click does on Linux and Windows versions.) Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] Recovery pages won't close
On 11/28/2010 3:53 PM, Carin Gala wrote: Hello would anybody mind telling me how to get off this mailing list?! Mailing unsubscribe to: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org didn't work. Thank you I'll be glad to help you off-list (b...@onr.com); there are several possible problems. Just send me a note about what you've tried and what happened (or didn't) and we can go from there. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] Re: Dates into Calc
Am 28.11.2010 14:31, Harold Fuchs wrote: OOo 3.2.1 Vista Home Premium, Calc I have a web page showing a table of dates and associated events. The dates, all in the same year (2011) are in the style, for example Sun Oct 23. If I copy/paste the table into Calc, the example date I just gave comes across as 01/10/2023. How do I fix this so that the dates come across correctly? Calc's Paste Special option doesn't seem to help. I have tried saving the table as a CSV file by copy/pasting the web table into a text editor and then opening that file in Calc but the result is the same. Hi, Choose locale English(US) in the language options. Greetings, Andreas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
