Re: Can't find answer on website or Help

2016-08-08 Thread toki
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 2:51 PM, Gillian wrote: >> The main problem I have at present is trying to type in text the symbols >> found in music: I have a sharp symbol on my keyboard but none of the others, particularly needing the flat symbol. > Try this: > http://www.outsideshore.com/music/mus

Re: Can't find answer on website or Help

2016-08-08 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Reposting forgot to cc the op > Gillian; > The problem is that the character map is font dependent and not all > fonts have the same glyphs and if they do they may not be in the same > area. If this is something that you do frequently it may behoove you to > find a font tha

"Choosing Fonts"

2016-08-08 Thread Bruce Byfield
First Excerpt from “Designing with LibreOffice” Released Separately Friends of OpenDocument has released Choosing Fonts, the first of five excerpts from Bruce Byfield’s Designing with LibreOffice. Although focused on LibreOffice, both the original and the full book also largely apply to Apache

Re: Help I shrunk open office

2016-08-08 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 8 Aug 2016 13:18:23 -0400 DaveMainwaring wrote: > I had two windows open. In one I was editing the text. I clicked someplace > and the page scrolled and and the text shank maybe 1 point size. > I close OO and reopened it. > The opening pane was very different. Small, black background and

Re: Can't find answer on website or Help

2016-08-08 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Gillian Barrington wrote: > I have now trawled through the special characters charts in Open Office and > found, in some obscure place, the symbols I am looking for. Thanks for > your time. > I have to say it would be easier to search for stuff like this is the > headings were clearer eg. search t

Help I shrunk open office

2016-08-08 Thread DaveMainwaring
I had two windows open. In one I was editing the text. I clicked someplace and the page scrolled and and the text shank maybe 1 point size. I close OO and reopened it. The opening pane was very different. Small, black background and brightly colored Icons. Missing was the page I have seen for years

Re: Re: Re: Reply to : download, but unable to use

2016-08-08 Thread Hagar Delest
In your mail you say 2 times that AOO can save in .docx: Le 08/08/2016 à 15:02, aditya chandran a écrit : Well Nasrin that is not the case actually you can save the file in .doc format and even docx!!! Well as I said in the earlier reply while saving it choose .docx format.Please try out and

Re: Re: Reply to : download, but unable to use

2016-08-08 Thread aditya chandran
Hi Hagar You're right but the problem is that Herma wanted to create .doc file with OpenOffice as she lost her ms word and now wanted to use AOO as an alternative for writing it.I agree that the format .doc will work fabulously with ms word too but she can also use AOO to save time and money. I

Re: Can't find answer on website or Help

2016-08-08 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Wade Smart wrote: > On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 2:51 PM, wrote: >> I am very frustrated in trying to find answers to questions about >> Open Office, it all sounds too technical. The main problem I have >> at present is trying to type in text the symbols found in music: I >> have a sharp symbol on my

Re: Re: Reply to : download, but unable to use

2016-08-08 Thread Hagar Delest
Aditya AOO does not save in OOXML. But LibreOffice does. The feature was not activated by design in OOo in the past IIRC. The point nowadays is less the software than the file format. Remember that OOXML has not been designed to be compatible with anything else than MS Office. So if you need t

Re: Reply to : download, but unable to use

2016-08-08 Thread aditya chandran
Well Nasrin that is not the case actually you can save the file in .doc format and even docx!!! Well as I said in the earlier reply while saving it choose .docx format.Please try out and if you're facing any problems please do tell me , I'll try to send steps to do it. Regards Aditya From: na

Re: Reply to : download, but unable to use

2016-08-08 Thread nasrin khaksar
hi herma. openoffice supports many formats for import, but you can only save your documents as .doc in microsoft formats of word and about .docx, you can only open it read it and if you want to change it you can not save it as .docx. i wish that Openoffice supports .docx format even for save like l

Reply to : download, but unable to use

2016-08-08 Thread aditya chandran
Hi Herma You can without a doubt create a word (doc,docx) file with OpenOffice writer all you need to do is while saving it make sure that you save it using the ( .docx,doc) extension Please check out the following link for open office Tutorials https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Tut

Re: Can't find answer on website or Help

2016-08-08 Thread Gillian Barrington
I have now trawled through the special characters charts in Open Office and found, in some obscure place, the symbols I am looking for. Thanks for your time. I have to say it would be easier to search for stuff like this is the headings were clearer eg. search the character map for 'music'. From

Re: Can't find answer on website or Help

2016-08-08 Thread Gillian Barrington
Thanks for your reply Doug. I have tried this compose thing, got the icon in the system tray, found the symbols I want, but nothing happens when I use it in Open Office. I don't have a key marked AltRight so I assumed AltGr was the nearest (it is on the right). If I type AltRt #= I get just tha