Ross Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 00:57 +0100, Sigrid Kronenberger wrote:
Hi,
Hauke Basse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb:
Janet Noldus schrieb:
I have only just installed Open Office and I have the following
problem. I usually use the German version of Microsoft Word and in
that there is a button called "Seite einrichten". You reach it by
clicking "File" and then it is in the drop down file.
In German OO: Format - Seite einrichten,
so in the English one I guess sth like: Format - Page Settings
I need it to decide for example whether I want
to write in horizontal form, but more important there is a rider for
tables where I can activate the network so that it will be printed.
Is there a similar button on Open Office? If so, where do I find it?
I don't understand your question? Network - tables?
Gitternetzlinien - I don't know the translation to English. Please have
a look at Format | Seite (page) | Tabelle (table) | Tabellengitter
(second point under "printing").
Gitternetzlinien: 'Grid network lines' according to BabelFish.
Do you mean cell borders in tables, embedded spreadsheets etc?
(Hopefully you can find these from the English names):
For tables, these are printed as is, but you choose them in the document
using Table | Table properties | Borders, or various other means.
For an embedded spreadsheet you select the spreadsheet table and then in
Format | Page | Sheet you have all the options for grid lines etc. You
must do this for each embedded spreadsheet in the document.
As to Format - Seite einrichten, if this is indeed Format - Page
Settings, you will find a corresponding menu in OOo Writer under Format
-> Page ...
However, these parameters are better set by pressing F11 to bring up the
Stylelist, selecting the fourth icon in the toolbar which represents
Page Styles, clicking on "Default", and setting the Default page style
as you wish. Some of the parameters you set will filter down to the
other page styles. You may wish to check them and change those styles
also if they are not what you want.
But your new settings will only apply to the current document (and any
documents saved from it afterwards).
If you wish to use these settings in other documents, it is best to save
your current document (probably with text removed) as a template through
File -> Templates -> Save... Then, through File -> Templates ->
Organize..., you can find your saved template under "My Templates",
select it, and make it your default template if you want through either
a right-click which provides a menu with that option, or by
mouse-pressing the "Commands" button which brings up the same menu.
MS Word generally updates its Normal.dot template automatically when you
make such changes, or updates other templates automatically when you
make changes to documents which were based on them. But OpenOffice.org
makes you explicitly define and update templates yourself, which may
seem more primitive, but is better in that it prevents the annoying
accidental changes in templates which MS Word users sometimes encounter.
Jallan
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