On Friday 25 April 2008 01:33:00 am Harold Fuchs wrote: > On 25/04/2008, John R. Sowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I noticed that my punctuation was weird (left quote at the base line > > instead > > of being at the top of the characters). After checking the > > options/customization, I found that the language had changed to Czech, > > for western language, > > > > I corrected it, did not check "for this document only", closed the > > program, > > restarted it, checked and found the language changed back to Czech. I > > checked my time zone to make sure I am not in Europe, no, Los Angeles. > > I'm > > in the San Francisco Bay Area, but that's close enough. > > > > Help? > > > > John > > You don't say which version of OOo you are using nor which flavour of which > Operating System. > > Depending on the OOo version, the Quickstarter might be getting in the way > of the language change you are trying to make. Try this: > - Quit all OOo components > - Quit the Quickstarter > - Open Writer and make the change you [correctly] described in your e-mail > - Close Writer > - Start the Quickstarter if it doesn't restart automatically > - Check that your language setting has stuck > > If that fails and if you are on Windows: > - shut down all OOo components & the Quickstarter > - Rename the file "C:\Documents and Settings\Harold\Application > Data\OpenOffice.org2\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\setup.xcu" to > something that doesn't end in ".xcu". > - Start Writer > - Check the language & change it to what you want if it isn't already > properly set > - Start the Quickstarter if it doesn't restart automatically > - Check that your language setting has stuck > If this works you can delete the renamed file from above. > If not then, sorry, I give up. Without actually sitting at your keyboard > and playing - aka performing a forensic investigation - I'm stuck. Come > back here with details of what you did and the results and hopefully > someone else will be able to help. You should rename the above renamed file > back to its original name, possibly deleting any new one that got created. > > Of course, the other question is how this situation arose in the first > place. Have you done something to change the "Locale" as defined to your > Operating System (which is where OOo gets its language settings unless you > do something specific)? Have you written a Czech document and inadvertently > changed your default template? Have your kids been playing with your > computer? Hmmmmm.
I am running OOo 2.4 under Suse 10.3. I do not write documents in Czech, my wonderful children have flown the coop, which is why I have this nice office at home now. I do not know how to check my "locale" other than the time zone. I do not see any reference to quickstart in the "tray" in the lower right corner of the screen. OOo takes about 20 seconds to start. Hope this helps, John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
