At 13:34 08/08/2007 -0400, Kenn Goutal wrote:
Erik P. Olsen wrote:
I am running OpenOffice 2.0.2 on linux fedora 5.
Every time I want to create a new document a sort of system
template by the name "Untitled1" is opened specifying a font
(Lucida Handwriting) that I dislike and US-English spellcheck. I
would like to modify OpenOffice so that "Untitled1" specifies
Helvetica and Danish spellcheck. How do I accomplish that?
I'm running OO.o 2.0 on WinXP+SP2.
I've had similar issues, though not as bad is Erik's.
When I create a new text document (.odt),
the default font seems to be "Times New Roman".
I haven't bothered to check the spelling settings,
because I usually don't bother with it.
(With apologies to _Mystery Men_: I am The Speller. I spell *really* well.)
However, I find the default *paragraph* settings to be not to my liking.
I poked around and found a folder/directory called:
...\OpenOffice.org 2.0\share\template\en-US
I looked in some of the subdirectories, e.g. "internal",
and found html.stw and idxexample,
but those both came up with a default font I've never heard of: Thorndale.
This certainly doesn't correspond to what I get when I open a new document.
So ... Where should we look to change the settings
so as to change default fonts, default paragraphs, default spelling, etc?
This was all answered in the original thread in April, in fact.
o Change the default font at Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org
Writer | Basic Fonts (Western).
o Change the default language at Tools | Options... | Language
Settings | Languages.
You can also change the default template if you wish, or even create
a new one and set that as your default, but the above are more
sensible ways to sort these two problems.
You can change details of the default paragraph style by
right-clicking in a paragraph with that style (or in an empty
document) and selecting Edit Paragraph Style... . If you need this
to be your default for new documents, you need to save these changes
in a template - either the default template or a new one which you
then set as default. But again: it is easier to make the changes in
Tools | Options... if the change you need is possible there.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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