2008/4/20, thomas steel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The second of my three remaining problems with OpenOffice is this: I > successfully converted my Word files, in which quotations were marked by > single inverted commas. These reproduce correctly when printing from > OpenWord.
There is no such thing as "OpenWord". At least as far as I know. If you are referring to the word processor in OpenOffice.-org, it's called Writer and it has nothing to do with Microsoft Word, more than that both are word processors. But any new ones I enter appear on screen and in print as (don't know what > they are called, but little vertical dashes without the comma curl. Can > anyone please tell me how I can prevent this? Okay, that's an easy one. Tools → AutoCorrect... → Custom Quotes → Select the quote characters that you want. My other problem Third problem? is that I like to use a rarish font called Charter. Openword happily > converts documents into this, but obstinately leaves all endnotes untouched. > I have had to change these one by one (hugely laborious, when some of my > docs have 200 of them. I must be missing a trick here. Will anyone be kind > enough to help? T. Steel That's a strange one, I'll leave that one to someone else, since I dont have a clue. J.R. ----- Original Message ----- From: "thomas steel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 8:03 AM > Subject: [users] Help requested > > > The first of my 3 remaining problems with OpenOffice is this: I > > successfully converted my Microsoft Office finance files 2 months ago & have > > used them easily. At the end of the finance year I shunted them into a New > > Folder (marked 'Old'!) & happily created new ones. I now find I can't open > > the old files. When I try, a window appears, inviting me to save & only > > giving the 'Microsoft Office Excel 97-2003' option. I then have to Cancel or > > press Save. If I do the latter, I'm told that the file already exists & do I > > want to replace it? Can anyone tell me what to do? I'd be most grateful for > > help. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "JOE Conner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 10:52 PM > > Subject: Re: [users] Help requested > > > > > > It is my extreme pleasure to have been of help. > > > Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA > > > > > > thomas steel wrote: > > > > > > > Dear Joe: So many thanks for your response. Can't think why I didn't > > > > think of that solution. The problem still seems an odd one, but you have > > > > solved it for me. I hope you'll look out for my other 3 main probs when > > > > I > > > > ask in the next day or so! TS > > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "JOE Conner" < > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: <[email protected]> > > > > Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 7:51 PM > > > > Subject: Re: [users] Help requested > > > > > > > > <<SNIP>> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
