> Twayne wrote:
>>> As a new user to Open Office I have a simple question; how do you
>>> print a single envelope? I find the envelope printing feature very
>>> poor compared with MS Word. That program simply transfers the
>>> addressee to the envelope and printing is straight forward. An
>>> envelope is not necessarily an insert and thus when printing one on
>>> Open Office it either prints the letter on the envelope (!) or
>>> pushes out blank pages before doing the envelope and since you
>>> don't know when it's going to stop doing that you don't know when
>>> to put the envelope in, even if there was time to do that. It
>>> should be possible to print an envelope on its own as you can with
>>> Word. The Help section is extremely unclear on this subject and
>>> your help is requested.
>>>
>>> Or direct me to somewhere where I can get the answer to this simple
>>> question, please.
>>>
>>> Thank you, R. Statham
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>> For some reason envelopes are a bit of a frustration in OO.o and
>> always have been. IMO it's best to practice on plain paper before
>> moving to actual envelopes. And then when you get one that's
>> working well, save it as a template so you'll have it for later use
>> and not have to design it each time.
>> Best I can tell, OO.o measures things from the bottom of the page
>> up, instead of from the top of the page down, so it gets hard to
>> have one template work for more than one printer for some of them.
>> It's not near as handy as envelope settings in Word, but it will
>> suffice once you get the hang of it. I usually just make the new
>> ones I need as I come across them; the holidays this year were a
>> real PIA<g>.
>>
>> My 2 ยข,
>>
>> Twayne
>>
> Attached is a #10 size envelope that works for me. I do not remember
> where I first got it from.
>
> Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA
Hi Joe Conner,
I appreciate your placing said envelope in the open; I'm always on the
lookout for better methodologies than my own(such as they are<g>).
Please don't take any offense at this because I mean none and am simply
inquiring, hopefully to further my own knowledge. Here's the crux of
the matter: It won't work for me.
If my printer were wide enough to accept an envelope long side first, I
think it would work fine but as most printers will require the short
side first, as mine doesn, I can't get it to work regardless of whether
I modify the envelope and/or the printer settings.
What printer did you design it for? I am using an HP Color Laerjet
CP2250n.
IMO, so far for me, the easiest way to design #10 or any longer than
the printer feed is wide, I stick to Portrait mode and simply print
vertically on the paper with the envelope centered. I put a temporary
border on the envelope so I can see where its edges are on the printout,
and when it's right, then I reset the width to 9.25 inches (technically
9.13 I think), try another test, and the drop in an actual envelope.
That way I can print without messing around with any printer settings;
everything is strictly in OO.o (version 3).
Might you have any suggestions? Perhaps I'm missing something pretty
simple/obvious.
Initially I didn't allow macros to run and wondered if that was the
problem, so I re-opened it and allowed macros to run that time, but it
was no help; no change from without them. Did a machine Restart,
repeated; same results. I did the Restart because my PC runs pretty
much 24/7 and sometimes odd little problems like this are fixed with an
occasional Restart, but not this time.
Taking a look at the macro, it revealed an error message that may or
may not be meaningful:
"Private Function Replace(Source As String, Search As String,
NewPart As String)"
I quit at that point; don't have enough coffee in the coffers yet<g>,
and left it for later. Besides, I'm not fluent in VBA, really.
If you wish, I can attach what I'm using as a #10 envelope for this
printer; just ask. I have one for this printer and another for an Epson
Colorjet C88+. They are 2 different templates because they work for
different printers.
The problem with anything I've come up with so far is creating
anything that is in any way "global" for the various printers that
exist. IMO the ability to print envelopes shouldn't be this much of a
hassle, especially when it's based on the ease and near perfection that
the "nameless one" does the same tasks.
Thanks for your post, and I hope it helps most people! I'm only saying
it didn't work out in my case, so I figured I'd see what you might have
to say further on the subject. It's a true annoyance, IMO and one I'd
really like to overcome.
--
Regards,
Twayne
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