On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 19:38 -0400, Paul_B wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 09:02:41 -0400, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > >> What I'm saying is you could take your list of words... oh dear, > >> I just found out that OO has no Title Case option. I was going to > >> say select your whole list and go Format/change case/ title case. > >> > > > > FYI, Andrew Brown's macros do enable Title Case and the macro also lets > > the user toggle through the various modes. See the ooomacros link on > > http://documentation.openoffice.org/thirdparty.html > > for this. > > > > [snipped] > > > Thank you, G. I see that this is true - for one word at a time. > > This is not directed at you. I appreciate your trying to help. > But I'm finding that almost every time I try to dive into > something with OO I get stymied. It's fine for basic functions, > but for advanced things it's logic is very much unintuitive. I > was up and running with mail merge in Word in ten minutes; it > took me about 2 hours in OO. Macros I still haven't gotten to > first base with. Frames are not documented.
May I suggest that you have a look at the 1.1.x User Guide ( http://tinyurl.com/8zlay ) and/or the 2.0 User Guide (http://tinyurl.com/bwfrp) both have lots on frames. Plus on http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html there are also all the OOoAuthors guides. Bound to be something on frames in these too. Lots on macros too. Then there are the other repositories at http://documentation.openoffice.org/ like the HOW-TOs and so on. I think by using these you might be able to get your head around frames. As to mail merge, I believe this is also documented in the guides while the on-line help could be considered a bit techie it is there too. 2.0 is still a work in progress so I do not know how mail merge will work at release time. However, I do know there is work being done to also have mail merge in 2.x work directly with email. > > I'm not complaining, I'm stating. I need to get a handle on this > situation. I believe in OO. I would like to make MS irrelevant. I > would even pay for OO if it did the job. It does and that search on the main site doesn't work well enough to bring up what is on docs doesn't help you or others either. ( http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=52046 ) > > This leaves me in a difficult situation. At present it's very > hard for me to grow into OO. But I do not want to go back to MS. > I have recognized that getting to existing docs can be a huge problem. That is one of the reasons I answer here even when I should be working on the 2.0 guide and setup guide and doc project admin stuff :-) so people can find something to help them get going. I would ask anyone who can to get on board docs and contribute where possible. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
