At 14:31 22/08/2007 +1200, Gus Porteners wrote:
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May I ask another question:
I am using two computers and have installed OpenOffice.org 2.21 on both.
I want to use dummy text for some exercises and can get it on one
computer by typing dt and pressing F3 but not on the other. Both
keyboards are Microsoft but not identical.
I could get around it by using a batch file to get it on the
student's screen but only if there is no other foolproof method. Any ideas?
Not really, I'm afraid. I've looked for a setting somewhere that
might disable AutoText - with the idea that you might have chosen
this inadvertently - but I don't see one.
One obvious possibility is that the user on the suspect system has
disabled the F3 key or perhaps defined it with some other
function. Does something else interesting happen when you press
it? Has someone installed software which intercepts F3? Go to Tools
| Customize... | Keyboard, and look in the "Shortcut keys"
panel. What does F3 say? It should say "Run AutoText Entry". If it
doesn't, you can reset it here: the relevant function is in the Edit category.
Go to Edit | AutoText... . Is the Standard category present? Select
Standard and choose Path... . Are these paths plausible? Does the
user have access to them? If you open the Standard category, do you
see Dummy Text? If you select Dummy Text and go to AutoText | Edit,
does a new Writer window appear with the correct dummy text? (I
suppose one possibility is that someone has edited the dummy text to
something else - or nothing. You could correct that here.)
If you log on to the rogue machine as a different user, do you see
the same problem? If not, the problem is probably in the per-user
configuration files. If so, you could delete (or rename or move)
some or all of these and allow OpenOffice to create new, clean copies.
I'm running out of ideas here. The next thing I would try is
probably reinstalling OpenOffice.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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