On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 09:17 -0500, Randomthots wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 01:17 -0500, Randomthots wrote: > > > >>Andy Lewis wrote: > >> > >>>Step by step: > >>> > >>>1) Set the page size of your *document* to 8 1/2 tall by 5 1/2 wide. You > >>>can have as many pages as you like, it doesn't have to be a multiple of > >>>4. OOo will sort out what should be printed next to what (eg with an 8 > >>>page document, 1 next to 8, 2 next to 7 etc). > >>>2) File|Print. Now under Properties make sure the *paper* is set to 11 > >>>by 8 1/2 landscape. Under options tick "left pages" and "brochure". > >>>Print. > >>>3) Pick up the pile of pages, turn it over top to bottom (not left to > >>>right) and replace in printer. Repeat (2) but with "right pages" ticked > >>>instead of "left pages" > >>> > >>>Hope that helps > >>> > >>>Andy > >>> > >>> > >> > >>This should be formally documented in the FAQs and User Guides. It would > >>save a lot of screwing around time for a few people. > >> > >>Rod > > > > > > I hope this means that you will write up the HOW-TO. To submit it, > > please open an issue for documentation/HOW-TO and assign it to me so I > > can put it on-site. > > > I meant it as a complement of sorts. Those kind of step-by-step > procedures for things are very helpful when doing something that's > somewhat less than intuitive. You could practically copy 'n paste his > step-by-step instructions into an FAQ entry. > > > Having such a HOW-TO would no doubt help those who have trouble with the > > short descriptions in Help and the User Guides. > > Indeed. There are a lot of things like that. It's nigh onto impossible > to anticipate everything that anybody would want to do and include > instructions in a User Guide. That's the beauty of a community driven > FAQ, IMHO. > > > > > BTW, Andy's step-by-step rewords what I wrote in > > http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=93282 > > > > I don't doubt it, but finding things in the list archives is an order of > magnitude harder than locating material in FAQs etc. Now that the spring > semester is done and I have the summer off, I may find some time to > write up a few things that seem to come up a lot. >
Please! We are always looking for new stuff. Using a issue is a great way to do it without the hassle of joinng and getting commit perms etc. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
