On 09/14/2010 05:45 PM, Twayne wrote:
In news:[email protected],
Earl Melton<[email protected]> typed:
Hi Barbara and list,
On 09/12/2010 03:42 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
...and you may find that it is actually just as easy or
even easier to accomplish what you want.
This is so true. I do the Sunday morning lyrics
presentation for my church and getting a background image for a particular
song
required _at least_ seven or eight mouse clicks (as best I
recall) when I was using Microsnot Office. This was before
I could even navigate to the image I wanted. In Impress, I
right-click the slide, choose Slide> Set Background Picture for Slide,
and I'm ready to find my
picture. Two clicks! Far less wear and tear on the trigger finger and
left rodent button!
Also, I once subscribed to a M$-Word list where there were
some extremely knowledgeable pros. None of them, however, could
ever tell me how to make a TOC that was automatically sorted
alphabetically. Probably could have been accomplished with
some VBA voo-doo, but nothing simple. Of course, this was back in the days
when Office 2000 was
new. They may have caught up with OOo in more recent
versions, I don't know. When I started with Writer, I just
highlighted the chapter or song title I wanted, then chose Insert>
Indexes and Tables> Entry.
Scroll back up to the TOC, right-click on it and choose Update Index/Table
and you're done. So easy, even a caveman like me could do
it!
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Have a blessed day!
<>< Earl
Well, that would be OK but ... by definition a TOC is never alphabetical. It
s, instead in the order of the headers or header marks in the document, top
to bottom (first to last). An index on the other hand is Alphabetical by
definition and if you really wanted to could suffice as your TOC if you
really want it alphabetical. Look it up.
For your own purposes, it wouldn't matter what you did. For any
professional who knows the business and what the TOC/Index is supposed to
provide, you wouldn't get very far.
They're easy to look up; try it.
HTH,
Twayne`
Did I claim to be a professional? Did I claim to "know the business"?
And I'm not really trying to "get very far." I'm just a user who found
two procedures to be _considerably_ easier in OOo than in M$O. Dear God
and Twayne, please forgive me for using a wrong term! I bow to your
superior vocabulary. And whilst you're at it, please forgive me for
being so far behind on e-mail. I just noticed I'm responding to a nearly
week-old rant.
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Have a blessed day!
<>< Earl
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