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by RoryOF
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: Writer
Topic: Limited space in each document one create?
Replies: 13
Views: 865

Re: Limited space in each document one create?

@floris v: thank you for the reminder in the above post that the keys are Shift Enter, not Ctrl Enter. I have corrected my posts accordingly.

Let my error be a warning to others against doing too many things simultaneously!

In computing a k is taken to be 1024 characters (think of powers of 2).
by RoryOF
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:58 pm
Forum: Writer
Topic: Limited space in each document one create?
Replies: 13
Views: 865

Re: Limited space in each document one create?

Exactly so: I have several documents that are 2,000-3,000 pages. More than that may start to run slow. If the Ctrl Enter Shift Enter characters are coming from imported documents, then you should use /Edit /Paste special : unformatted text. If you have existing documents using Ctrl Enter Shift Enter...
by RoryOF
Tue Mar 26, 2024 10:15 pm
Forum: Writer
Topic: Limited space in each document one create?
Replies: 13
Views: 865

Re: Limited space in each document one create?

When you get to a paragraph end, do you press Enter, or Ctrl Enter Shift Enter? In OpenOffice one rarely needs to use Ctrl Enter Shift Enter [Read: do not use Ctrl Enter Shift Enter until you know exactly what you are doing]. Use of Ctrl Enter Shift Enter in place of Enter to mark end of paragraphs ...
by RoryOF
Mon Mar 25, 2024 7:21 pm
Forum: Macros and UNO API
Topic: Write access to generic statusbar item
Replies: 4
Views: 405

Re: Write access to generic statusbar item

The Word Count status bar controller at

https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/pr ... controller

writes a word count for a Writer document to the Status Bar. Careful examination of its code may be of assistance.
by RoryOF
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:52 pm
Forum: Impress
Topic: Installed new components, Impress text invisible
Replies: 24
Views: 2620

Re: Installed new components, Impress text invisible

I tried Hagar's 2x suggestion, which is accessed in Xubuntu by Settings : Appearance : Settings tab : Window Scaling. It left my system in a confused state and I was not able to use the same settings to revert to 1x and needed to reboot with a ctrl key sequence (Alt F4). A reboot is what the Help su...
by RoryOF
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: Impress
Topic: Installed new components, Impress text invisible
Replies: 24
Views: 2620

Re: Installed new components, Impress text invisible

It might help to adjust your screen resolution when editing to (say) 1280 x 1024. I sometimes have to do this when using a 12" screen (1920 x 1080) laptop.

My preference is make or edit presentations etc on my desktop with multiple screens.

I must investigate Hagar;s 2x suggestion.
by RoryOF
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:23 pm
Forum: Impress
Topic: Installed new components, Impress text invisible
Replies: 24
Views: 2620

Re: Installed new components, Impress text invisible

The OpenOffice interface can be adjusted by /Tools /Options /OpenOffice : View. Scaling may be changed between 80 and 130%, either by direct entry of the value or by the up/down arrow. Icon size can be changed Large/Automatic/Small.
by RoryOF
Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:09 pm
Forum: Impress
Topic: Installed new components, Impress text invisible
Replies: 24
Views: 2620

Re: Installed new components, Impress text invisible

For me, the test file looks exactly as Hagar's screenshot, using OpenOffice 4.1.15 running on Xubuntu 22.04.4
by RoryOF
Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:49 am
Forum: Writer
Topic: [Dropped] Booklet wants to print on wrong size paper
Replies: 14
Views: 1026

Re: Booklet wants to print on wrong size paper

The booklet printing option does two important things: It automatically scales the page of text to fit on the "half -sized" sheet of the finished booklet and then also gives the correct layout of the pages front and back for the printer to print on the uncut sheets of paper. In a folded bo...
by RoryOF
Wed Mar 20, 2024 8:15 pm
Forum: Writer
Topic: [Dropped] Booklet wants to print on wrong size paper
Replies: 14
Views: 1026

Re: Booklet wants to print on wrong size paper

This looks like a printer driver problem, specific to Macs. Ideally the Print Properties should show the paper size the printer thinks it is using. When you print a standard portrait letter page (single sided), what does the Printer Properties button tell about the paper size? If it says "legal...
by RoryOF
Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:31 pm
Forum: Writer
Topic: [Dropped] Booklet wants to print on wrong size paper
Replies: 14
Views: 1026

Re: Booklet wants to print on wrong size paper

This posting of mine, in an earlier booklet thread, gives some information on scaling sizes for US brochure size.

viewtopic.php?p=370148#p370148

Normally if a printer takes "legal" that input tray can also be adjusted to take A4 and US Letter.
by RoryOF
Tue Mar 19, 2024 10:16 pm
Forum: Writer
Topic: [Dropped] Booklet wants to print on wrong size paper
Replies: 14
Views: 1026

Re: Booklet wants to print on wrong size paper

I can't help about Mac details. What printer are you using?
by RoryOF
Tue Mar 19, 2024 9:07 pm
Forum: Writer
Topic: [Dropped] Booklet wants to print on wrong size paper
Replies: 14
Views: 1026

Re: Booklet wants to print on wrong size paper.

I haven't access to a Mac, but in Linux, and I think Windows, in the Print screen there should be a Properties button. When that is pressed, one should select "letter" (in most of world A4, when printing to A5 booklet), and Landscape or Horizontal paper position (words differ according to ...
by RoryOF
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:12 pm
Forum: Writer
Topic: [Dropped] Blank Page Partially Covering Text
Replies: 9
Views: 1070

Re: Blank Page Partially Covering Text

In the actual file try clicking on the borders of that white area, which are visible in your screenshot If you get green handles when you do so, press Delete, or right click and select delete from the popup context menu.
by RoryOF
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:06 pm
Forum: Writer
Topic: [Dropped] Blank Page Partially Covering Text
Replies: 9
Views: 1070

Re: Blank Page Partially Covering Text

The white block is narrower than the image, so looks to be unrelated to the image. A sample file will be the quickest way to a solution.
by RoryOF
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:27 pm
Forum: Macros and UNO API
Topic: Get all Annotations/Comments/Notes
Replies: 18
Views: 1681

Re: Get all Annotations/Comments/Notes

I was fiddling around tonight (not very seriously, waiting for a large document to download over a very slow connection). Andrew Pitonyak, in his personal macro libraries, at https://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewPersonalLibs.odt gives some macros for handling Annotations. I have not inspected these in det...
by RoryOF
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:20 am
Forum: Macros and UNO API
Topic: Get all Annotations/Comments/Notes
Replies: 18
Views: 1681

Re: Get all Annotations/Comments/Notes

My experiments with Annotations (not in this thread) showed that all attempts to handle annotations (whether by extraction or merely listing) returned the Annotation nearest the end of the file, then all other annotations in order from the beginning of the file. Hubert Lambert suggested sorting them...
by RoryOF
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:06 am
Forum: Writer
Topic: Widen Save As file name field
Replies: 14
Views: 1150

Re: Widen Save As file name field

On my (Linux) computers, it is sufficient to position the cursor over a side or other edge of the window; when it turns into an arrow against a bar, similar to this |<-- then press mouse button and pull to widen the underlying window. It may be easier, as Hagar says, to use a corner, and pull left o...
by RoryOF
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:30 pm
Forum: Writer
Topic: Widen Save As file name field
Replies: 14
Views: 1150

Re: Widen Save As file name field

Not the Save As slot, but the Save As Window.
by RoryOF
Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:09 pm
Forum: Writer
Topic: Widen Save As file name field
Replies: 14
Views: 1150

Re: How to broaden the window that displays the name of the document to be saved in Open ffice Writee

With your mouse, grab a side of the Save As window and pull; the file entry box will widen appropriately.
by RoryOF
Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:36 pm
Forum: Calc
Topic: [Solved] Chart reproduced 100's of times
Replies: 11
Views: 708

Re: Chart reproduced 100's of times

@Hagar: It is a pasted picture of what the OP sees, because the file is too large to post.
by RoryOF
Sat Mar 09, 2024 10:40 pm
Forum: Calc
Topic: [Solved] Chart reproduced 100's of times
Replies: 11
Views: 708

Re: Chart reproduced 100's of times

No, perfectly all right to ask here.
by RoryOF
Thu Mar 07, 2024 6:29 pm
Forum: Calc
Topic: Open file in full-screen mode
Replies: 7
Views: 914

Re: Open file in full-screen mode

The process I describe will only Save the OpenOffice Window filling the screen; you will have the toolbars and framing of the OpenOffice editing window. That Saved file should carry that condition forward to other users. I know of no way to Save merely the internal application screen as full screen ...
by RoryOF
Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:44 pm
Forum: Calc
Topic: Open file in full-screen mode
Replies: 7
Views: 914

Re: full screen mode opening file

Open the file, switch to full screen mode, then Save it. It should thereafter open in full screen.
by RoryOF
Thu Mar 07, 2024 4:00 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: [Solved] Install OpenOffice in Deepin Linux
Replies: 12
Views: 1229

Re: [Solved] Install OpenOffice in Deepin Linux

It might be that the OP, who admits to being elderly (said ROF, 78!) had no English. I sometimes try to append a translation from deepl.com to a foreign language posting. In the case where a user is posting in non-native English, it can be useful if (s)he appends a native language version, so that a...
by RoryOF
Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:09 am
Forum: Linux
Topic: [Solved] Install OpenOffice in Deepin Linux
Replies: 12
Views: 1229

Re: [Solved] Install OpenOffice in Deepin Linux

For general information:

many of the Moderators and Volunteers on this forum find
https://www.deepl.com/translator
provides a good translation of postings.

There is also
translate.google.com
which offers a wider range of languages but perhaps not as nice a translation as deepl.com.
by RoryOF
Tue Mar 05, 2024 6:24 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: [Solved] Install OpenOffice in Deepin Linux
Replies: 12
Views: 1229

Re: Install OpenOffice in Deepin Linux

Here are the exact steps needed to install OpenOffice on a linux distro using debs. Change to your Download directory, to which you have downloaded the tar file. Then tar vxf the_full_name_of_the_file.tar.gz. this will unpack the file into a folder with name something like en-US in the downloads fol...
by RoryOF
Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:22 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: [Solved] Install OpenOffice in Deepin Linux
Replies: 12
Views: 1229

Re: Deepin Installatie

This thread is a request on how to install OpenOffice on Deepin (a deb linux) and floris v's advice to go with LibreOffice if that is available in that distro's repositories. The sequence of commands to install OpenOffice on linux is given in https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?t=501...
by RoryOF
Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Do you think AOO will get a revamp?
Replies: 3
Views: 604

Re: Do you think AOO will get a revamp?

Hello everybody, this is my first post. I come from the spanish community, but since this one is more active, I'll just stay here. My question is, will OpenOffice ever get a revamp on its design? While it's still usable, I think it looks a bit too XP era or Office 2003. I will keep using it, of cou...
by RoryOF
Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:58 pm
Forum: Writer
Topic: [Solved] Change function of Tab ket
Replies: 6
Views: 906

Re: Change the fuction of a regular key (in my case, tab)?

Or if you explain your desired formatting, we may be able to advise a better way.