On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 11:42 -0500, David Johanson wrote: > > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 18:53 -0500, David Johanson wrote: > > > >>G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > >> > >>>On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 16:28 -0500, David Johanson wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>>For the life of me I cannot find where you turn on the option of having > >>>>the file > >>>>drop down list display the last files opened. In the 1.1.2 I'm running at > >>>>home > >>>>the list displays the last 4 files opened (I'd like to make it more like > >>>>8) and > >>>>on my 1.1.3 at work I get no files displayed. > >>>> > >>>>Can someone point me to the location that controls that info. > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >>>I did a quick search on google which gave Results 1 - 50 of about > >>>116,000 for how to change the openoffice recently used list?. > > > > ^ ^ > > |----------------------------------------------| > > > >>Would you care to share that search string; I don't find any such > >>references > >>when I google. > >> > > > > > > See above and you will see I did. > > Thank you; that helps immensely! > > > > > >>>The second one down seems to be a winner with a macro to do the job. > >> > >>and the link is:? > >> > >>>The support page list a number of resources for you. Of these, the > >>>documentation project also offers manuals, HOW-TOs, templates, 3rd party > >>>sources et cetera. > >> > >>All of which seem to be amazingly difficult to find if you don't know where > >>they > >>are. I purchased a copy of openoffice.org 1.0, and I've also purchased > >>Solveig's > >>workbooks. Info lacking in all of those volumes. Looking in the help files > >>is > >>totally useless. > >> > > > > > > How about the manuals to which I pointed you? > > Nothing there either which is very frustrating considering that 1.1.2 > provides > part pf what I want (display of a list of files), be it only 4 which is > helpful > but not quite as helpful as 8 +, while 1.1.3 seems to NOT provide this by > default. The fact that it is available and a feature ought to be documented > somehow, somewhere. ;-(
Well 1.1.4 certainly has a picklist. Perhaps it's time to upgrade. > > > http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html Since I do not > > know what you want nor can I anticipate your needs. This is probably the > > best I can do. > > Perhaps I can say it more clearly; I a) want the file drop down menu to > display > the last "x" number of files opened and where they are located on the box > where > "x" is preferably 8 or greater, and b) I want to know where in the OOo > configuration files I can set this feature both ON and the number of files > listed. In other words, I want to determine where files of specific type are > stored and I want to be able to use the file drop down menu to access the > last > "x" files opened. That's all. I'm not expecting you, or anyone for that > matter, to anticipate my needs, just that I get real frustrated by any form > of > RTFM as an answer to a specific directed question. I try my best to help > folks, > with direct answers to things when I know the answer (I do teach at a major > University), and provide suggestions that I think may be helpful if I don't > know > the answer and SO STATE, but I never suggest go look it up somewhere. I'm > sorry, but that just makes me angry. My problem, but a fact none the less. > > If you teach at a university then your search skills should be better than mine. However it appears you perfer to have someone else do your research for you. I do not see my role as being your personal research assistant. I will leave that to you and your staff. What I do see as my role is two part: To create decent documentation and to help people, like yourself, to get a better grasp of what OOo has to offer. e.g. give a man a fish and he eats for a day but teach a man to fish and he eats everyday. > > > >>Why not just answer the question if you know the answer; else leave it be > >>for > >>someone who does know and wants to help. I'm sorry, but IMHO this kind of > >>response does absolutely nothing to further the use of open source software. > >> > >>dave > > Ah ha! You want instant gratification. Sorry my time is valuable. If you cannot accept that I am a voluteer who take time to try to give the best answer I can then ... > > > > OpenOffice.org cannot have everything on-line, mostly because of > > licensing issues. We try to compensate by putting important links on our > > various projects. If you can think of some way to improve things, please > > let us know. > > I can, and the first is to simply document ALL the features. If something is > available, it ought to be documented. I'm assuming from my coding days that > all > the code is documented and that for starters this documentation can serve as > the > initial set of help files. What's lacking there can subsequently be "fleshed" > out and I for one would be MORE than willing to do something along those > lines. Bravo that's the idea, get involved. For your complaint about stuff not being available the way you think it should, I suggest that you enter an Request for Enhancement (RFE) into Issue Tracker as this is the best way to have requests such as this evaluated. If you haven't already registered, do the following: 1. To file an issue you must register with OOo by clicking the Register link at the top right of www.openoffice.org, 2. Fill in your information 3. Reply to the confirmation email that will be sent to the address you provided. 4. Once you have confirmed, go to www.openoffice.org again 5. And click on the "Bugs & Issues" link in the General links box. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It is important that you file any examples with the issue to ensure your need is understood. THe next step would be to join one of the projects. Website would seem to be appropriate. > > The options | load/save page can easily have this feature as a part of it, > there > is plenty of room, as well as a tab for where what files are saved, both as > primary folder and secondary folders. Or it could go separately under each > file > type (text, ss, pres, draw, math), I don't care, but the ability to easily > locate your recent work ought to be fundamental in a computer application. > > Thanks for listening and for your help. > I suggest you use the macro. Since you cannot or will not look for it, here is one link. www.ooomacros.org. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
