> On Thursday 07 July 2005 23:19, + Sam Uselton wrote: > > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > > Hi - > > > > I've been using OpenOffice Writer regularly for months on my laptop > > running Fedora Core 3 Linux. I upgraded to Fedora Core 4 Linux, and > I'm > > still ironing out wrinkles. FC4 seems to use a new version of > > OpenOffice. In the "About" dialog box, the BIG letters say > > "OpenOffice.org2.0" and then faintly and about 6 or 8 spaces to the > > right "Beta". In regular type, it says "OpenOffice.org 1.9.104". > > > > My problem is that when I select "Save as" from the File menu, I > seem to > > get the dialog box for the "Save" menu item. In other words, there > is no > > way to select the possibility of saving in other formats. > > > > I can make up several possibilities for what has happened, but I > don't > > really know how to figure out which possibility is right, and what > to do > > about it. Is a pointer wrong, and so giving me the wrong dialog > box? Or > > is the collection of dialog boxes been garbled? Or is there some > larger > > problem? Am I supposed to customize the configuration some how? Am > I > > supposed to access this functionality some other way? > > > > Sorry. ... a little frustrated. > > As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: > On Friday 08 July 2005 06:47, Greg Madden wrote: > > I tried this out in ver ~.113, there are a few different scenarios > > depending on where you start, a new doc, opening an existing doc, > > inserting a file into a new doc. Without knowing more in this regard > I > > couldn't duplicate the behavior. > > > > For an existing document that I open, doing a save just saves the > doc to > > its original name, no dialog box. If I insert a file into a new doc, > > the save icon brings up the save as dialog box. If I create a new > doc, > > doing a save or save as, I get a save as dialog box.
Thanks for all comments, and especially to CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who was thoughtful enough to copy the above message to me, noticing that I am not subscribed to the group. I eventually solved my own problem. I had generated a document that I am continuing to update and keeping in the OpenOffice format. I received a request for a copy of the document (my resume, if you must know :-) ) in MS-Word doc format. So I was trying to create a new file by "Save as..." in Word format. But the dialog box didn't give me any way to choose a format, which seemed to be the purpose of "Save as" as distinct from "Save". Since the behavior seemed like "Save" I thought I might be getting the wrong dialog box. But as described, "Save" doesn't need a dialog since it is saving in the current form, and needs no info. I continued to explore the menus for ways to configure things. I eventually found the "Customize" and "Options" items at the bottom of the "Tools" pop-up. I changed several likely things (so I can't tell you which one actually was IT, or if it took a combination) and I can now save into Word format. Thanks again, Sam Uselton [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
