On 15/07/09 23:10, NoOp wrote:
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>
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