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
On 06/10/2010 04:23 AM, Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi all,
Maybe someone here knows why the line spacing is increased when bullets
are applied?
...
I've been working (off on) at something of a howto on OOo Writer's
lists. Here's the section that I did for this problem:
On 06/21/2010 08:17 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
In the following Writer formula there exists a space between the %mu
and the m (for micrometers):
d_0.95 = 20 %mu m
How can the user remove the space?
With the upcoming release (3.3, or the developer snapshots leading up to
it), a new command is
On 06/21/2010 04:18 PM, John Kaufmann wrote:
In a message dated 2010.06.21 09:53 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
Maybe someone here knows why the line spacing is increased when
bullets are applied? ...
I've been working (off on) at something of a howto on OOo
Writer's lists. Here's the section
On 03/12/2010 04:35 PM, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote:
OOo 3.2 on Windows XP Pro X64
I have a small document that includes a narrow 2-column
table, consisting of a heading row and 54 rows of content.
I wanted to make the table double-wide and bring the lower
27 rows up to occupy the new columns 3
On 03/08/2010 04:29 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
In Writer (3.1.1 currently), how can I bracket two or more list-items
together with a large curly brace placed at the *right* of the longest item?
Thus:
List item 1)
List Item Number 2 ) This text refers to all three items
This
On 03/08/2010 02:20 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
Thanks; where do I get the curly bracket graphics from? Or is there an
easy way to make them? How, please?
Look on the Drawing toolbar, under Symbol Shapes. You may need to
activate the Drawing toolbar in Writer: View Toolbars Drawing.
If
On 01/29/2010 05:18 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
It would appear that on Jan 29, Brian Barker did say:
At 12:13 28/01/2010 -0500, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
It drives me to distraction whenever my date is converted from:
11:20 am to 11:20:00 AM
...
If I understand you correctly,
On 11/24/2009 07:25 PM, JOE Conner wrote:
... What I want to be able to do is import a style and incorporate it
within my own new document (F-11) dropdown list of styles. ...
It would be nice if the Load Styles function was available for Calc,
but you work around the problem using File
On 11/07/2009 03:55 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
... Border is not an independent
entity from Area; on the contrary, Paragraph area is bounded by the
paragraph borders, and Page area is bounded by the page borders.
because the selection set is not orthogonal, the model doesn't compute;
it runs into
On 10/23/2009 03:58 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
2009/10/23 James Elliottjames.elli...@wn.com.au
A question on Text Boxes ...
... oops! ... the whole text box has disappeared, gone, along
with all my carefully selected margins ... poof! - gone!
...
When you create the text box, put a line
On 10/20/2009 08:15 AM, Michele Zarri wrote:
Hello All,
As the subject states, I am in the process of updating the Writer user
guide (www.oooauthors.org) to include some new features introduced
since OOo 3.0. At present I am looking at the capability of allocating
to a paragraph style its own
On 10/19/2009 04:07 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
2009/10/19 Michael Adamsmbad...@paradise.net.nz
Had a little trouble setting default tab stops in writer today. I wanted
to set them for one paragraph only, ...
...
The only thing I can't find a way to do is to specify, for example every
1/2 inch.
On 10/19/2009 02:35 PM, John Kaufmann wrote:
Joe, I've learned that you think about these things at a pretty deep
level, so I try to make sure I understand the nuances...
I'm no expert, by any means; I'm just interested in using OOo effectively.
In a message dated 2009.10.19 11:54 -0500, Joe
On 10/06/2009 02:36 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
...
...OO's handling of a hierarchical list changes
depending on whether the list has some level-indicating character
(numbers, letters, bullets, ...) or whether 'None' is selected in the
style Options Numbering. In the latter case, which is used in
On 10/05/2009 02:03 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
...
... I don't understand what you mean by 'hierarchical', beside
outline-style indentation, which is still there when I view it.
So sorry - that question came from first viewing your example in OO 2.2,
which is what was on the computer (not
On 10/02/2009 12:56 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
...
In WordPerfect, even with such a structured list (what WordPerfect calls
an Outline), one can Indent after any list member to a common point
on the line, as shown above. I have been wasting a lot of time trying to
see how to do this kind of
On 10/02/2009 02:35 PM, John Kaufmann wrote:
In a message dated 2009.10.02 13:20 -0500, Joe Smith wrote:
In WordPerfect, even with such a structured list (what WordPerfect calls
an Outline), one can Indent after any list member to a common point
on the line, as shown above. I have been wasting
On 09/26/2009 03:20 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
Let me digress to ask what should be a basic question ...
...
Is that the way it is supposed to be done?
That looks about right.
In this case, I think there's actually another step. When you Insert
Frame, then apply a frame style that changes
On 09/25/2009 08:03 AM, John Kaufmann wrote:
...
What is desired is that a paragraph with embedded list look overall like
a paragraphs without embedded list. This means, for example, that
between the list description and list elements there be no
end-of-paragraph spacing, while the last list
On 09/25/2009 10:58 PM, John Kaufmann wrote:
...
- I can make the frame, and put the list in it; so far, so good.
- I can anchor the frame to a character - but which character to make it
stay where is belongs, ...
The anchor is _as_ character, not _to_ character. An object anchored
as
On 09/17/2009 02:42 PM, L Duperval wrote:
... I want the cropped picture to appear inside the polygon. ...
Place a copy of the polygon over the image, and do Modify Shapes
Intersect.
This does not do a true clipping of the image by the polygon (see Issue
104035:
On 09/07/2009 01:56 AM, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
...
Is there any way in the configuration that I could specify (and have OOo
reliably read) an alternate font directory?...
Check in the OOo section under the Start menu for something called
spadmin. If it's not there, you'll have to run it from
On 09/07/2009 12:39 PM, Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
...
I've encountered a problem. That program isn't there.
...
Ugh. Did you try a file search for it?
It's not normally needed anymore, and I know there was some discussion
of phasing it out altogether, but it's still distributed with the Linux
On 08/31/2009 06:49 AM, Karti wrote:
Dear Joe,
Thanks for the clarification. Is it possible to translate this
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/betternetworkdays.aspx in calc?
Sorry, that's more than I can get into right now. There are some basic
things there that don't even look familiar to me;
On 08/28/2009 07:16 AM, Karti wrote:
Hi,
The following formula works perfectly in Excel but it does not work in Calc.
{=Row(1:12)}
Also the following doesn't work in Calc,
{=Row(Indirect(1:12))}
...
You can use =ROW(A1:A12) or =ROW(INDIRECT(A1:A12)); they should work
in Excel as well. You can
On 08/26/2009 06:15 AM, Alex Zachopoulos wrote:
I have this Write file which I am putting together, and I would like to keep
it organized with Sections, so that I can apply different settings to each
section, such as page borders, headers footers etc.
...
I am trying to figure out how I can
On 08/15/2009 01:23 AM, Tamblyne wrote:
I'm trying to copy certain cells from one sheet to another. If the
first cell is empty, I want the second cell to be empty, too, ...
Testing for empty cells can be a real mess, because there are various
degrees of emptiness and the means of testing for
On 07/04/2009 12:36 AM, NoOp wrote:
...
So he sent me both files. Problem is that the vlookup spreadsheet has a
hardcoded link to the user directory and instead of #NAME error, I get a
Error:501 (Invalid character)
Any chance that the file path on the original system contains a 'funny'
On 06/24/2009 01:31 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I wonder if anyone knows of a function I might use to find the row
number of the last non-blank cell in a column?
...
Try
=MAX(NOT(ISBLANK(A1:A65536))*ROW(A1:A65536))
as an array formula--use Ctrl+Shift+Enter to enter the formula.
Joe
On 06/23/2009 05:16 AM, AG wrote:
...
I suppose another issue is the length of time it takes to autosave: with
3Gb of RAM and a further 3Gb allocated to my swap partition, one would
think that there'd be plenty of memory for OOo to use in the save
process
I can only guess, but I believe
On 06/23/2009 08:12 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
A non-techie user wants to start using Impress to make slides for his
presentations. Until now he has been making .bmp slides in Paint!
He wants to know if Impress can animate a slide like this:
...
... if someone could say yes, this is possible that
On 06/19/2009 06:50 AM, AG wrote:
...
How do I set it up so that when I open a document it defaults to opening
it at the place I last worked on - i.e. the end of the document?
OOo Writer tries to be smart here: if the document is opened by its
author, the editing cursor and view are restored
John Meyer wrote:
...
I am trying to extract the hour from a cell and put it into a second
column, but when I use the HOUR() function all it returns is 12:00:00 AM
This is a little tricky.
Times in a spreadsheet are stored internally as fractions of one day. So
all times, and all the times
Joe Smith wrote:
...
Strangely, Calc chooses to display the result as if it were a time
instead of just a normal decimal value. ...
Oops, my bad. It's not Calc's fault at all. The original spreadsheet had
formatted the result as a time, thus the integer results displayed as a
time 12:00:00
Timur Tabi wrote:
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Joe Smith j...@martnet.com wrote:
...
You can also copy/paste any of the paragraphs from the list to another
location and it will retain its identity as part of the original list.
That does not work. When I paste the text, it does include
Timur Tabi wrote:
...
The trouble I'm having is inserting LX4. There does not appear to be
a way to directly insert that LX4 into a new block of text.
You can use the Format Painbrush from the toolbar to mark a paragraph
as part of an existing list.
With the editing cursor in the existing
Alain Baeckeroot wrote:
I need to often switch my display from formula to value...
Is there a way to add a button for this in one toolbar, or defined a
keyboard shortcut ?
According to the help, it's available as Ctrl+` (that's a back-quote;
the leftmost key on the number row--on US
JOE Conner wrote:
Dave Barton wrote:
...
Format an empty Calc cell with an ISO 8601 date format (ie. -MM-DD)
and then type, or paste, a date in US format (ie. MM/DD/) into the
cell and the date is displayed as entered. Reformatting the cell after
the date is entered does not change it
Eustace wrote:
...
Yes but in the Writer the bold font looks OK. I don't see why it
shouldn't in Calc. It seems to me that they only have to replace the
revelant code of the Calc with that of the Writer...
For me, both Writer and Calc show the same problem with Lucida Console:
the bold
Brian Barker wrote:
At 22:09 25/03/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
OOo3 Calc: I have set as default font (template) for OOo Lucida
Console 12. In the Writer everything is OK, in the Calc however:
...
You mean bigger sideways, don't you? Interesting. Happens for me, too
(3.0.1, Win XP
S Perry wrote:
... I checked
line by line. They LOOKED the same. I then inserted a new column and
subtracted the second result from the first, expecting 0, row by
row. Instead, the result was the value that appeared in both cells...
most of the time. ...
It's hard to be sure without having
Gene Young wrote:
Joe Smith wrote:
...
Note: The cell format does not determine whether a cell holds a
numeric value or a text value. That is determined by Calc's
examination of the data when it is entered, and /nothing/ after will
change its value type.
Actually you can change
John Jason Jordan wrote:
...
I finally got it to work with this syntax:
left lbrace alignl stack {`left [ +approximant right ]~___
X_0~]rsub stem # `left [ +nasal right ]~___ X_0~]rsub stem #
`left [ binom {+syllabic} {+front} right ]~___ X_0~]rsub stem # `
{___ _stem left [ +syllabic right
JOE Conner wrote:
... It seems to me that the Open Document format specifications
should have nailed the format down precisely. Otherwise, the document
can not fully portable.
The ODF Formula specification specifies the semicolon as the function
argument separator.
However, the syntax
andrew.m.g...@l-3com.com wrote:
I'm trying to install OpenOffice.org 3.0.1 without root access, but it
isn't working for me, not without some extreme hackery.
...
I am using CentOS 4.7. Root is not available to me.
Do you need to use rpm? This produced a runable OOo for me:
$ (cd
NoOp wrote:
...
I reckon that someone should file a bug. Search in the bug database
shows some issues back in 2003, but nothing recent that I can find.
A search of Writer issues with 'label page size' in the summary gave
these (and a few other similar ones):
Avery Letter Size 5160 Label
Michele Zarri wrote:
...
There are two ways to achieve this.
...
There is one other way: insert the repeated slide as a link
1) File Save
2) Insert File, then choose the same file as the current document
3) Select the slide you want to repeat from the list
4) Make sure the Link options is
Ely Schoenfeld wrote:
...
I was already trying to fix the problem using ROUND in some places, like
multiplications and divisions, but I steel had differences in my calculation
(bigger than 0.01) at the end. Now I see that I have to add round to some
places that I didn't thought to.
...
You may
Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote:
...
So I expect that if I use sumif(A1:A5;;B1:B5) should sum values in
B1:B5 only if the corresponding cells in column A is empty.
...
It is true that OOo3 has changed the way empty cells are handled, but
your situation is not a result of that (as far as I can
John Jason Jordan wrote:
...
To find the Unicode number for a character go to Insert Special
Character and browse through all the characters until you find the one
you need. ...
You may want to take a look at the standard Character Map application;
it's under Accessories in the desktop menu
Dotan Cohen wrote:
I have a page with two columns that I must physically print and cut
down the vertical middle. Therefore I would like to print a dot in the
horizontal center top of the page and another in the horizontal center
bottom of the page. I cannot find any facility for doing this in
Brian Barker wrote:
...
Date and time values are stored in Calc as fractional numbers of days;
they display as they do only because of the cell formatting. ...
Along with Brian's nice explanation, you may want to bookmark
Rogier van Vlissingen wrote:
Well, you got me experimenting, but this isn't it yet, but I did some
editing to clarify the problem:
...
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:29:31 -0500, Erik Remmelzwaal
...
I assume that your lookups return both corner coordinates of the array
as a string like B2 and C5
You
Joe Smith wrote:
...
For a sample sheet, see
http://www.martnet.com/~jes/temp/range_select_example.ods
Or, editing your attached sample:
http://www.martnet.com/~jes/temp/EverGreen_576E165_ECR+evalV0.50_edit.ods
Joe
Barbara Duprey wrote:
S Perry wrote:
This is also called in MS Word a catalog. ...
snip
OOo's mail merge has this kind of capability ... once you create a
table with the fields inserted from the database, and with the final
cell of the row ending with the next record field, it should fill in
Brian Barker wrote:
At 17:30 04/01/2009 -0800, Allan Abrahamse wrote:
How do I use openoffice writer to create a directory ...
I don't know that you can use Mail Merge in this way - at least, not
directly. Here is a slightly messy workaround, ...
I have also just used copy/paste to
Ken Jolliffe wrote:
I have written a simple single cell array formula but when I drag it
down to copy to the cells below the relative reference does not change
...
Calc handles drag-fills of array formulas differently than normal
formulas. It expands the area covered by the original array
VLM TechSubs wrote:
We are exploring the search (ctrl-f) function in Writer. We see how to
search for many things, but not yet for special characters (em dash,
ellipsis), invisible characters (end of paragraph and the like), character
styles, or for, say, markers of a given type.
You've
Bob Estes wrote:
I have found a problem in formating input fields.
...
Does anyone have any ideas on how to correct this problem?
Yow. This task is a 'perfect storm' of things that Writer does badly.
Here's a sample with two different approaches:
- A two-column table with a calculation that
James Montgomery wrote:
... I was hoping there was something as simple as ./soffice --version.
Close:
$ ooffice -help
OpenOffice.org 2.4 680m18(Build:9364)
...
$ ooo241 -help
OpenOffice.org 2.4 680m17(Build:9310)
...
This doesn't show the minor version number which is visible in the Help
VLM TechSubs wrote:
...
Is there a way to create character styles, such that only specified font
properties are affected?
Yes, although the user interface is awkward and there are some glitches
which can make it difficult to manage effectively.
In the Styles and Formatting dialog, with the
Brian Barker wrote:
... But the claim I was trying to make still stands: that -MM-DD
is easily available in OpenOffice, ...
A matter of opinion, but I don't think easily is the appropriate
adjective here.
It's embarrassing that a task as simple and as common as inserting the
current
Brian Barker wrote:
... If so, you can do this using an array formula. Enter this into
your result cell:
=SUM(C2:G2*(C2:G2-1))/(SUM(C2:G2)*(SUM(C2:G2)-1))
...
Nicely done!
Just one pointless point: The numerator
SUM(C2:G2*(C2:G2-1))
is equivalent to
SUMPRODUCT(C2:G2;C2:G2-1)
in
Ulrich Becker wrote:
...
But where is this lock information stored and how can I remove
it? I prefer not to have that sort of leftovers in a hidden
database ...
To lock a document file named letter2mom.odt, Ooo 3 will create a lock
file alongside the document called
.~lock.letter2mom.odt#
Bart Friederichs wrote:
Cor Nouws wrote:
Bart Friederichs wrote (15-10-2008 14:28)
I would like to extend the shapes I have in OOo Draw. I found already
shapes in .odg files (http://lautman.net/mark/coo/index.html), but I
cannot find how I could import them in my shape-toolbar. How do I get
Bart Friederichs wrote:
...
You can add shapes to the Gallery from a drawing by drag drop, but
you still have to do it one shape at a time.
That doesn't seem to work.
Could you be just a little more specific? ;-)
Well, let me guess that OOo's slightly peculiar drag and drop interface
is
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Sorry for the delay. We have a new baby in the family!
Yow! Congratulations!
Here's a shot based on the linked sections document:
http://www.martnet.com/~jes/public_html/temp/quarter_page.odt
Quoth the server, 404.
Arr. My duh.
Dotan Cohen wrote:
I have a page that must be divided into four equal parts, two
vertically and two horizontally (2x2). Is there a 'smart' way of doing
this?
I have tried all the table formating options that I could find and the
best that I could do was to measure and set the width and height
Dotan Cohen wrote:
...
How can I have [it] so that I can simply update one list and the
others update automatically? ...
One way would be to use the technique that Writer uses for label sheets.
A section can get its contents through a link to another section. So you
make one section the
Erling Larsen wrote:
... This work fine but my problem is, that i need the second decimal to be
either 0 or 5.
Your calculation works, but it is more complicated than it needs to be.
Calc always stores times as decimal values, but in days, not hours.
All you should need is
Andis wrote:
I'm looking if there is easy possibility to chose variable from the
table, like in example below, ...
Maybe something like this:
=INDEX(RegData; MATCH(Height;RegHeights;1); MATCH(Species;RegSpecies;0))
The first MATCH produces the row number; the second the column.
Joe
Mark Knecht wrote:
...
I need to get the sum of column 1 * column 2 but only when the value
in column 1 is either negative or positive.
Hmm, either negative or positive? SUMPRODUCT(A1:A5; B1:B5) will do
that, since your condition is true for every number I can think of.
If you mean only
Joe Smith wrote:
James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote:
When I saved a Calc spreadsheet in Excel format to send to my
Accountant, the SUMPRODUCT formulas did not work because a Calc
formula like this:
=SUMPRODUCT(A1:A3000; B1:B3000)
was converted to :
=SUMPRODUCT(A1:A3000, B1:B3000)
ie
James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote:
...
So, in Calc (forget Excel) we can use either of these formats, can we?:
=SUMPRODUCT(A1:A3000; D1:D3000=TEST)
or
=SUMPRODUCT((A1:A3000)*(D1:D3000=TEST))
Am I correct?
Yes, I believe that is correct. Logical tests in Calc always produce
numeric
James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote:
...
ie. I made it read:
=SUMPRODUCT(chqDEBIT,chqCODE=A13,chqDATE=$D$4,chqDATE=$D$5)
and the formula no longer worked! The sumproduct total I had in that
cell just disappeared - no error message, just no result.
If you're working in Calc then you
James Elliott - WA Rural Computers wrote:
When I saved a Calc spreadsheet in Excel format to send to my
Accountant, the SUMPRODUCT formulas did not work because a Calc formula
like this:
=SUMPRODUCT(A1:A3000; B1:B3000)
was converted to :
=SUMPRODUCT(A1:A3000, B1:B3000)
ie semicolons ;
Jim Allan wrote:
Joe Smith wrote:
Also, it would be nice if Writer supported this as an actual list (a
dictionary list in HTML). Writer provides no good way to sort the
list, or even to manually re-order it.
Highlight what you want to include in your list and then use Tools →
Sort Each
Jason Cipriani wrote:
...
What is the most convenient way to format this document like above as
I'm entering the text?
Just a point of information, since others have already answered the
question.
Writer includes pre-defined styles for this: List Heading and List
Contents.
Also, it would
emf wrote:
...
I have style Heading 2 between 2 paragraphs. The style of the paragraphs
is double spaced. I want to position the heading exactly between the end
line of the first paragraph and the last line of the second paragraph.
...
Thanks for trying to help me see how this works.
emf wrote:
How do I customize the Status toolbar (the one at the bottom of the
window) in the OOWriter so that it will show the position of the cursor
(Page, Line, Position on the line) like in WP? ...
While I respect the fact that many people ask for this feature, I have
yet to hear a
Dotan Cohen wrote:
2008/8/30 Michele [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Remember that you have to press F9 or Tools Update Fields to...
guess what? update the fields :-)
Fields are otherwise updated before you print, when you save the
document and at some other events (maybe).
I just discovered this one
H.S. wrote:
...
In conclusion, if an eps file with a preview is used in OOo, OOo does
not slow down on the page which contains that file but also it retains
the low res in the exported PDF file. Printing the document gives the
right eps in the output though.
This is the expected behavior. If
Larry Evans wrote:
...
Is there a way to just say I want another paragraph under
the existing list item?
Look on the Bullets and Numering toolbar, there's a button with the
tooltip Insert Unnumbered Entry.
You can also do this with the keyboard: when you type Return to start a
new
Tim Johnson wrote:
Hi:
Have files with following format:
First line:
column names, delimited by TABs, no text qualifiers
Following lines:
cells delimited by TABS.
I would like to import such a file into calc.
...
For importing text data in Calc, I use and recommend this:
1) Insert Sheet From
The last couple of OOo 3.0 snapshots have failed to install using my
usual routine; I get an error like so (on Fedora 9):
# cd DEV300_m20_native_packed-1_en-US.9318/RPMS
# rpm -ivh --prefix=/mnt/extra/opt/DEV300_m20 *.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
ooobasis3.0-calc is needed by
NoOp wrote:
It's in the deb's as well. See:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=90955
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releasesmsgNo=12153
I'm downloading m21 now to see if it also has the problem. There is at
least on OOo project member that doesn't believe this to
Uwe Brauer wrote:
...
Does not work for me OO 2.3 on Linux Kubuntu.
How are you doing this exactly?
I'm using Fedora-packaged 2.4.1 but I don't remember ever noticing that
formulas were not adjusted, nor can I find any issues recently fixed.
I copy/pasted entire table cells, not just the
Uwe Brauer wrote:
...
5 6 sum(A3:B3)
However although I can in writer define formulas in tables, this
particular feature seems not to be implemented.
...
Formula references are adjusted in Writer just as they are in Calc,
however the formula syntax is quite different in Writer: the formula
Jerry Feldman wrote:
... something like =if(150 = $a$1;150;$a$1) ...
=MIN(150;$A$1)
Joe
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Rolf Schumacher wrote:
good news, Jim
...
Jim Allan wrote:
...
I cannot duplicate this problem in OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta. That is
when I type space followed by “/REF/” and, and then insert the letter
“A” again and again before this, the “ /REF/” jumps to the next line
as a unit. If I remove
Jim Allan wrote:
Can’t duplicate this, if there is a space before the first slash.
...
Maybe this screencast will clarify
http://www.martnet.com/~jes/temp/OOo_word_wrap.ogg
Apologies in advance if that's not viewable; just let me know.
Joe
Rolf Schumacher wrote:
...
How to tell Writer to keep the five letters together on one line?
One workaround is to put the word in a frame. With no borders and no
extra spacing, it can be made to work.
Defining a frame style, and an AutoText for inserting them, can help a lot.
Joe
Jason Cipriani wrote:
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While that works, too, that's about as acceptable as opening the file
in Notepad then copy + pasting it. File - Open isn't the kind of
thing that should require a workaround at all. ...
If you're using OOo Writer as a text editor (open text file, edit text,
save
Jason Cipriani wrote:
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Therefore it appears that OO Writer chokes (quite consistently on my
system at least, I've been able to intentionally reproduce it 100%
now) on text files with LF line endings under Windows, and for some
reason attempts to open them in OO Calc instead (to rant, OO
Michelle Konzack wrote:
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Problem: OOo need it!
Question: Why?
Why? is hard to say; what? is much easier:
$ strace -o log ooffice -help
OpenOffice.org 2.4 680m12(Build:9286)
...
$ grep '/proc' log
open(/proc/meminfo, O_RDONLY) = 3
open(/proc/meminfo, O_RDONLY) = 3
Joe Smith wrote:
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$ grep '/proc' log
open(/proc/meminfo, O_RDONLY) = 3
open(/proc/meminfo, O_RDONLY) = 3
open(/proc/meminfo, O_RDONLY) = 3
Oops--sent a few seconds too soon.
Since /proc/meminfo is just ascii text, you could at least try replacing
it with a static
Harold Fuchs wrote:
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Please, what is the difference between Open/Save on the one hand and
Import/Export on the other?
In OOo, the terms have very specific meanings--far more specific than
the English words themselves.
When OOo has program code that supports both reading and saving in a
Scott Meyers wrote:
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I really do try to consult the documentation before posting, but I
rarely find what I am looking for. Even now that I better understand
what the Standard button on the paragraph and character style dialogs
does, I can't find a description of it in the online help, the
Scott Meyers wrote:
Joe Smith wrote:
The best resource I know of is the one you're using right now:
user-to-user QA, either here, or one of the web forums:
UCF: http://user.services.openoffice.org
OOoForum: http://www.oooforum.org
I read this list via the Gmane newsgroup interface, which I
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