In news:[email protected], Earl Melton <[email protected]> typed: > 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$-Word list where there were >>> some extremely knowledgeable pros. None of them, however, >>> could ever tell me how to make a TOC that was automatically >>> sorted alphabetically. Probably could have been >>> accomplished with some VBA voo-doo, but nothing simple. Of course, this >>> was >>> back in the days when Office 2000 was >>> new. They may have caught up with OOo in more recent >>> versions, I don't know. When I started with Writer, I just >>> highlighted the chapter or song title I wanted, then >>> chose Insert> Indexes and Tables> Entry. >>> Scroll back up to the TOC, right-click on it and choose >>> Update Index/Table and you're done. So easy, even a >>> caveman like me could do it! >>> -- >>> Have a blessed day! >>> <>< Earl >> >> Well, that would be OK but ... by definition a TOC is >> never alphabetical. It s, instead in the order of the >> headers or header marks in the document, top to bottom >> (first to last). An index on the other hand is >> Alphabetical by definition and if you really wanted to >> could suffice as your TOC if you really want it >> alphabetical. Look it up. For your own purposes, it >> wouldn't matter what you did. For any professional who >> knows the business and what the TOC/Index is supposed >> to provide, you wouldn't get very far. They're easy to >> look up; try it. HTH, >> >> Twayne` > > Did I claim to be a professional? Did I claim to "know the > business"? And I'm not really trying to "get very far." I'm > just a user who found two procedures to be _considerably_ > easier in OOo than in M$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. > -- > Have a blessed day! > <>< Earl
You should thicken your skin just a bit for working on newsgroups. I meant nothing offensive and lacking any indication of your level of expertise I boiled everything down to what I considered the mast basic response without using a lot of words. I still stand behind my comments, they were well meant, and not designed to trigger your paranoia. I would suggest we have no further communications with each other. Twayne` --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
