Oracle is not continuing support of the open source projects it took over from Sun in the spirit of open source. From what I've read, they prefer Oracle employees to do the development and they prefer to control the code. To me, this means these projects will no longer be open source, but proprietar...

If you look closely at the template when you open it, you can see rounded corners inside the table cell borders; and you can verify that these will print by looking at Page Preview. This suggests they are drawing objects. Go to View>Toolbars to open your Drawing and Drawing Object Properties toolbar...

Hi, jchafe! I've a 450 page document in about 7 chapters organized with a master document. I'm having problems with the page breaks changing between the master and the sub documents. The only place I've noticed this is near figures (usually just before the figure). Almost all my figures are located ...

Have you looked at http://www.portableapps.com foxcole? Hi, Mark. Yep, I ran a site-wide search that returned no results. Opening the search term to 'win tabber' I found one forum entry in the thread "What's on your portable#2?" :( The other portable apps site I use most frequently, http:...

I just minimized it, docked it and then draw it to the frame of writer. Hi, Helge! I'm sorry, I really couldn't figure out what you were trying to describe. Could you please be really, really specific about exactly what you click, where you drag (or whatever), etc.? Step by step.. or screenshots wo...

Hello, oo2u. Please read the Survival Guide for the Forum, which I've linked to in my signature. It will help you understand that this is a user-to-user forum with specific rules about posting, but it also points out where and how to make suggestions such as yours. However, you're certainly free to ...

Hmmm... I'd like to try it, but the new version apparently can't run as a portable app without some adjustments. (I extracted the files from the installer .exe using Universal Extractor, and ran wintabber.exe from there.) The previous versions, 0.2.232 and earlier, could run without installing anyth...

Writer has this function build in (OOo 3.0.x anyway): see File > Templates > Organise. You can select a template or open a document using the “File…” button, then double click the entry of this file so that an entry “Styles” appears; select this entry and, from the “Commands” drop down, select “Pri...

At first glance, I have this comment: it's surprising that OpenOffice allows to perform style searches on several sorts of styles but not on character styles. I don't understand the reason for this. My styles are character styles; as far as I know, if they were any other sort of style, I couldn't a...

I'm having no luck searching for the answer to this silly little question! It was something I used to do a couple of years ago and I even documented it once or twice for someone else in another forum, but I just cannot find it. There is or used to be a way to print out a list of the paragraph style ...

What I want to do is automatically remove all of the text formatted in 15 out of these 20 formats. Are you saying you want to remove the formatting, or you want to delete the text that contains that formatting? Either way, if you're searching for paragraph, frame, or page formats you can use Find &...

It turns out it was the images. Most of the images were 300x300 pixel jpegs and the total file size of the document was just under 1MB. Why are images in documents so unstable in OO? Other word processors seem to handle images gracefully but instead of automatically resizing images or warning that ...

Back when OOo 2.4.1 was developed, all Microsoft formats were deeply guarded secrets, so even the simplest text formatting was the result of guesswork and talented reverse engineering. Form fields have never been compatible between the two software applications, because of their exponentially higher...

Try this:
http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/usergu ... uments.pdf

The reason a paragraph is required with a table is that a table is a text property , not a standalone object. That's why you can't just click on a table and drag it around, any more than you can just click on a character and drag it around, except within the definition of a paragraph. Tables in MS W...

I have seen the recovery process actually open two versions of the file I was working on, the previous version and the more current one. It brought the old version in focus, so I had to switch to the newer instance, save it, and when closing the old version, decline when it asked if I wanted to save...

For me, the problem appeared "random", but it's not. A sheet is duplicated when it's tab is selected AND the cursor moves, even very, very slightly. It appears that OO interprets imperceptibly small movements of the cursor (during tab selection) as a desire to create a duplicate sheet. It...

Thanks Hager, that explains it. And thanks for splitting the thread. I hope I find a work-around. I am working on a larger documentation project and the template files are still changing from time to time. You should be able to safely transfer styles using File>Templates>Organizer... Open the docum...

Could you be a little more specific about "truncated"? What exactly are you seeing? When I open this in 2.4.1 I see one heading line containing "D: Grandeurs, unités, dimensions" (which appears to be the document or chapter title) followed by two "B: Opérations sur les grand...

Just to be clear, do you mean header (top of the page, outside the normal text body) or heading (title paragraph style)? Either way, you can omit specific paragraph styles from line numbering. In the Stylist, right-click on the paragraph style and choose Modify. Click the Numbering tab, and de-selec...

Just select and copy a part of a part of this discussion text to a writer page, that will not happen using copy and past tryng to use special past and selecting past as text does not give the result I want, just pasts some earlier content, not the selcted text from this discussion. Even when i try ...

Coming in quite late to this discussion, sorry. I've been working day and night for the past couple of months, and not able to keep up with this forum as I'd like. Nevertheless, the other problem is still there: while a master document appears to inherit paragraph styles from its subdocuments this d...

By "highlighting" I mean the highlighter function in MS Word. I can highlight the text any colour I want to in order to find it easier. Excellent, that means the methods described in this thread will fix the problem. Writer doesn't have highlighting... the highlighting tool just applies a...

Hi, Urmas. Could you please describe this in a little more detail? What do you mean by "import"? Are you opening the file directly or passing it through some kind of automated process? If opening directly, are you seeing an error message? Are you able to verify the integrity of the files b...

Word processors are unfortunately not designed for page layout, they're designed for content creation. For tight control of page layout, the word-processor-generated content would be imported into a page layout program such as FrameMaker or Scribus. That aside, we all realize that computer programs ...

Could you provide a few more details, please? How exactly are you changing the bullet level? Are you using the Indent tool, or Tab key, or list level paragraph style?

Great information! Good work. Thank you for posting.

I don't have the extension (though I do have the FF add-on)... but regarding toolbars, my first thought is maybe it somehow was joined with another toolbar. Have you tried clicking the double arrows on each of your toolbars to view more buttons? In Tools> Customize are you looking only at the Toolba...

Sorry, the subject was too long to take the [Issue] tag so I had to shorten it slightly. I'm surprised the issue isn't a hotter topic, but maybe it's just because most users don't have tons of animations. I don't know. But thank you for posting this link to the bug report. Good luck!! I hope your ef...

The update shouldn't have affected your file associations, but, well, it's Vista. Anything can happen. Oh---about Vista... Microsoft really complicated the user setup and security settings, creating problems even on computers with only one user. Possibly the installation went to a different account ...