On Sun November 5 2006 21:50, + r.a.macintosh wrote: > [ MODERATED ] ******************** > HI, I am using open office org 2.0 > I am trying to find the font on the tool bar to be able to make boxes for > a survey so people can tick yes or no to questions. Please help me to > navigate open office to allow me to do this task. I am new at computer > use,and find myself confused with this task
As you are not subscribed you may not have seen that: On Tue November 7 2006 17:25, + John Jason Jordan wrote: > [ MODERATED ] *********************** > > There is a simple way to do this and a harder, but potentially more > useful way. > > First, the easy way. You didn't say what platform you are using > (Windows, Mac, Linux), but all of them have a "symbol" font that comes > installed with the operating system. On Windows it is Wingdings. I dont > know about Macs, but it's easy to find out by following the rest of > these instructions: With your document open in Writer, click on Insert > -> Special Character. This will pop up a little window showing all the > characters in all the fonts on your computer. At the top of this popup > window is a little scroll box where you can select the font to display. > Scroll through it until you find Wingdings or whatever symbol font you > have. When you have found a suitable symbol font, select a checkbox that > appeals to you. It will appear in the bottom of the popup window. Just > close the popup window and the checkbox character will be inserted into > your document. If you need a lot of these checkboxes, once you have > inserted one checkbox, select it, then copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl-c > or Cmd-c). Now you can paste it over and over wherever you need a > checkbox. > > The harder way is to create a form. On a form you can create controls, > one of which is a checkbox control. The advantage of using a form is > that users can just check the box with the document open on their > computers, rather than having to print it out first and check the boxes > with a pen. Users can then save their completed form, saving it under a > different name, and e-mail it back to you. No paper needed. If you need > people to fill out the form who don't have OpenOffice.org, you can > export the form to PDF. Users can then fill in the form with Adobe > Reader 7.0, although they will have to make paper copies to send back > because you can't save a copy of an editable PDF. Please reply to [email protected] only. -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org/#FAQ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
