On 11/23/09 15:18, John Kaufmann wrote:
In a message dated 2009.11.23 03:53 -0500, Uwe Fischer wrote:
When the context sensitive toolbar is visible
turn it off using menu:View>Toolbars
This is also the topic of a blog entry in the
OpenOffice.org Help Tips 'n' Tricks blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/now_you_see_it_now
Thanks, Uwe. That page was a revelation, for a couple of reasons:
1) For the topic at hand, and the use of Shift-F1 for extended tool tip
info. [I /think/ I should have learned about that earlier, but somehow
did not.] One of the things that did was to allow an easy
comparison/verification of my earlier finding that functions is the
Table toolbar are different from the "corresponding" functions available
via the menu. To take the first example, extended tip info says that
the Background Color icon has a paragraph/text context, as opposed to
the cell or table context for Background color via the Table menu. I
don't know whether that is right, or good design, or the intent of the
design team, but at least the extended info is consistent with the
behavior.
you can set different background colors to characters and paragraphs. In
Calc, you can set different backgrounds to cells, too.
2) For the fact of a large library of OO documentation that I had not
seen previously mentioned and did not even know existed. Of course I
added it to my OO bookmarks, and then started seeing how it was
organized, in order to use it more efficiently the next time there is a
question. As far as I can see, there is no functional hierarchy of blog
articles; is that correct? A discreetly small search box, two screens
down from the top on the main page <http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/>,
appears to be the only tool for searching for documentation on a topic;
is that correct?
the blog entries are sorted by creation time ;-)
The tag cloud can be used to filter the results. You can also use Google
to search the blog. To find all blog entries that contain the word
"background", enter the following into a Google search box:
background site:blogs.sun.com/oootnt/
Uwe
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