On 07/15/2009 08:54 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > > 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 >
Just dock the toolbar when it pops up - drag & drop it to one of the top toolbars. Now when it pops up it won't float, but insead show up where you docked it. See: http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=102 <http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Table_menu> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
