It just goes to show, things aren't always what they seem to be ! I'm beginning to feel pretty 'alien' myself, when confronted with these difficulties ! Could I ask you, Jim, to explain in some detail for a 'noob' some myself, to what you were referring when you referred to 'setting up [the "official" version of OOo] with alien' ? If little green men from Mars or some as yet to us unknown Earth-like planet circling a distant star can help me with these download problems, I'd be delighted !...
My greatest problem, along side of which OOo's sudden disappearance followed by resurrection in which the lost documents are easily recovered, is merely a minor annoyance, is that I've been unable to gain access to a means of writing passages in Chinese or Japanese in documents written mainly in European languages. I've installed all the SCIM-files in Ubuntu and made the appropriate adjustments in OOo, but the one thing I've hitherto been unable to do is to activate the settings so that I can insert a series of graphs (a book title, a quote, etc) into a sentence in say, English or French or Swedish. What do I have to do ? My standard keyboard setting is Swedish, which works rather well for most European languages (not so well for Danish or Norwegian, but that is an inter-Nordic dispute), and I have set simplified Chinese as the standard for so-called 'Asian' languages. But how can I change from the former to the latter, either between documents or within a document. I've read the help pages which tell me to use 'Control + space' or 'shift + space' to toggle back and forth between the two settings, but nothing happens ! This, indeed, was easier in Windows and Word, where everything required could be accomplished with a few mouse clicks. Anybody feel like taking pity on me in my ignorance and providing me with step-by-step instructions to make things work ?... Henri 2006/12/14, jimw wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I Use Ubuntu as well, though I haven't switched to the new version just yet. I've always used the 'official' version of OOo, setting it up with alien. The first few Ubuntu Openoffices did not include the thesaurus,but if you wanted to go to the trouble, you could load the Ubuntu OpenOffice Thesaurus separately. That made me wonder what else they'd been messing around with, so I only use the official version now. That way, when I have a problem, I can get help from the users group. JimW
