On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:20:32 -0800 "J. Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Users, > > I have to begin by praising OpenOffice 2.0.1 I was using the beta > version of 2.0 and switched to 2.0.1 as soon as it became available. > I have since ditch MS Office XP entirely. I figured it wouldn't be > fair to bring up an issue without first openly declaring my love for > OpenOffice. > > That said, I had two fairly small questions - one about Write and one > about the suite in general. In MS Word, I have the option of only > using headers on the first page. I find this to be quite handy if I > am entering a letterhead, or if I need information only on the first > page and not on the others. I believe in Word is was called > "different first page". In college, I liked the feature because I was > able to not number the first page and list all my personal info on the > first page only. Long story short, is there a way to do this in > OpenOffice 2.0.1? I looked for it briefly and didn't see it. > In OO.o it is even better. You use page styles and can set a style for as many or few pages as you like, then swap to another page style for the next page/s. It's all in the documentation section of the website. > Secondly, with MS Office XP, I used to download a lot of templates > from the Microsoft web page - pro forma income statements for Excel, > page designs for PowerPoint, and Database forms for Access. I found > that they were really good starting points for improvement, especially > the Access database downloads. Do you know if anyone has tried using > these with OpenOffice? If it's possible, how is it done? They will mostly work as long as there are no Visual Basic Macros in them. Just load them in and save as OO.o templates. -- Michael Those that can, do; those that can't, teach. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
