On Sunday 12 March 2006 16:15, Tom Pendleton wrote: > Not surprizingly, the Outlook Express 6 e-mail > operation did not operate. > > I am constantly amazed that Sun and other reputable > groups are associated with Open Office, which has so > many drawbacks that it makes MS Word look good! > > Help is basically helpless, and rarely tells the > reader what to do. When it does, it is often wrong or > at least ineffectual. > > Here are two of the most basic questions, which I > cannot find answers to. > > 1) How do I set the margins? The instructions in Help > do not help, not only because they are quite vague, > but what they do say to do does not work. (I go into > Format, Page, and set the margins, but it has no > effect on the document.)
This works for me using 2.0.1. What version are you using? > > 2) How do I change the default font away from the > awful, extremely outdated, Times New Roman? No matter > what I do, that repulsive typeface keep reappearing as > the default. I am ready to eliminate it from my list > of fonts, if that is the only way to end its > domination of the default. > > Both of these questions are so basic, yet have proven > impossible for me to answer, that it shows how > non-intuitive and difficult to use your product is. I'm guessing that what you are looking for is to be able to change the default settings for any new documents you create. Existing documents already have all their attributes defined and were fixed when you saved them. The help (for 2.0.1) under defaults;templates seems to be sufficient except for two extra comments. When you create an empty document to act as the default template, I found that it is best first to File->Save As giving it an OpenDocument Text Template (.ott) extension to create the template where you save all your templates. And when it refers to "category list" in the File->Template->Organize dialog, they mean the left hand pane of that dialog; the panes are not labeled. You can then save the template to include all your favorite languages, fonts, page styles, paragraph styles etc. [Copied to OP as he does not seem to be subscribed to the mailing list.] -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] For FAQ, userguide, see: http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
