Re: Codes

2013-06-22 Thread Eric Fenster
Whoopee! The absence of reveal codes is up for discussion again, and we continue to have defenders of the absence of this great WP tool. It allows SEEING where things happen and CHANGING them by deleting the codes. It is an ADDITIONAL convenience, not a requirement. Nobody is forced to display

Re: help printing

2013-01-30 Thread Eric Fenster
Last week I brought up Wordperfect's Reveal Codes function. It also has a Make It Fit function. You select the number of pages you want and hit the button. Don't know if it works on spreadsheets though. Is that what Fit Print does? --- On Wed, 1/30/13, Haim (Howard) Roman ro...@jct.ac.il

Re: reveal codes

2013-01-21 Thread Eric Fenster
Try /View /Non printing characters. This allows one to exactly position the cursor. That's totally different. It shows paragraph breaks and spaces, not formatting codes. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: reveal codes

2013-01-21 Thread Eric Fenster
Gosh, I wish we could display a screen shot here of what we're talking about! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: reveal codes

2013-01-21 Thread Eric Fenster
document with 100 formatting errors. A correct version of the document must be available It's not so much about errors as the ease of making changes when revising one's text. People who write exactly what their final version should be the first time may have to deal with errors. The rest of

Re: [Inserting special characters (and Word Perfect)]

2013-01-21 Thread Eric Fenster
For certain cases where I use some symbols repeatedly, I make up a document that serves as a palette that I can copy and paste It would be nice to have a palette from which one could drag and drop characters.It would be faster when including words/phrases from other languages, for example.

Re: reveal codes

2013-01-20 Thread Eric Fenster
I wish people who have made some of the comments actually had experience with the Reveal Codes function in WP. First, for those not familiar with it, the Reveal Codes can be turned on and off and the amount of space (number of lines of text) it consumes on the screen is under complete

Re: reveal codes

2013-01-20 Thread Eric Fenster
just select default formatting to clear all formatting. Why destroy everything and start over if all that's necessary is to put the cursor on a code and DEL For ex, a hard page break that becomes out of place because text has been added during editing. Click on the page break code, it's

Re: reveal codes

2013-01-20 Thread Eric Fenster
If attachments work here, there will be a screen shot of WP with the Reveal Codes window open. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: reveal codes

2013-01-20 Thread Eric Fenster
That's exactly how you do it in OpenOffice, select the word and click on the Bold icon. It's not that simple. In Open Office you have to be careful about selecting spaces AFTER a word. If you select a word to make bold and happen to include the space after the word, then come back when