Hi, I use open office on various linux platforms, (Currently Kubuntu, OpenSuSE, & Sabayon...) For the most part I think it's great! But it does something that I find very aggravating. There are some floating toolbars that tend to pop up while editing an document with tables in open office writer...
Because I have difficulty keeping a mouse pointer where it needs to be, I use keyboard methods of navigation almost exclusively. But every time the cursor enters a table, the "table" floating toolbar turns itself on. It gets in my way, I have absolutely no use for it, (If I wanted to do any of the things it's waiting for me to click on, I would use <alt>+A to access the table menu with the keyboard.). The pointy-clicky toolbar which I would never use is often in the way. And even when I select it off in the view menu, it comes right back if I move the cursor the wrong way. I spend so much time turning the durned thing off that sometimes I forget what I had the document open for in the first place. It kind of reminds me of that dang annoying paper clip that kept getting in the way back when I used to use MS-office at work. There is a similar issue with the small floating picture toolbar that pops up when I manage to click 'somewhere' within the boundaries of an inserted graphic, except that in that case, If I remember to "start" with the right click first, I can, at least usually, get what I went there for done before that useless toolbar gets in the way. Like I said,n the subject is there a way to turn this behavior off??? Thanks -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<[email protected]>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
