The question is pretty easy. With Navigator, we can quickly move chapters up and down, and also change their level, by pressing buttons, like shown is sceenshot. But is there keyboard shortcuts for this? I tried different combinations of Ctrl/Alt/Shift + Up/Down/Left/Right. Strange, but doesn't work...

Hi, Erbsenzahl!

If I understand you correctly, your suggestion is about putting table inside the frame? So, the frame will stay on the page and will not move anywhere.

From my point of view, it's not very suitable for large tables. Please, correct me if I misunderstood your idea )

There is a simple example: table1.PNG In OO/LO, when the row is breaked across pages, it could be easily confused with two separate rows. The only workarounds I found myself are: 1. Uncheck "Allow row to break across pages and colums" (note: this workaround will not work in case if column ...

RoryOF wrote:It is easy to get into the code; the modification, if one is needed for a LibreOffice toolbar, ought be simple.

I will look it tomorrow, and if I could fix it, I will post information about necessary changes here.

When one restarts OO after installation (I haven't tried without a restart), in Writer there is a little floating toolbar called XRefM. Yes, many extesnsions have such floating toolbars. This one wasn't shown for me, probably because I launched it on LO. (For me, some OO extensions works on Libre t...

After a bit of searching, I discovered this extension: https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/reference-manager Probably it could do such renamings, but I'm not sure. I haven't found any GUI, so if you want to try it, you should launch it's macros manually (Tools > Macros > Run). If someone ha...

It's easily editable in the document xml, but that's not a practical workaround for most people. That's why, for "general user" it could be better always use bookmarks for futher referencing. (Together with VisibleBookmarks extension, for most convenient experience). It seems there is no ...

In Writer, there exist an option to create references for futher "inserting". That's mean: select some word, then click Insert > Cross-reference. In the new window, select "Set reference" in the "Type" area, and give it some name, for example Reference1. Then click &quo...

As I discovered, one may try to open txt file with Writer. The result will be the same, i.e. with incorrect encoding. After I discovered it, it quicky brings me to the point, that there is a known bug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63673 (Actually it doesn't work on Windows too...

John_Ha wrote:See Ch 13 Using Master Documents, Creating a master document and Creating and Using Master Documents.

Thanks a lot, John. I should only note that, from my point of view, Creating and Using Master Documents is just an early draft of Ch 13 Using Master Documents.

John_Ha wrote:Please upload both the .txt file and the .odt

Done:

I tried it, and I would say, hiding and especially coloring sections seems to be very interesting workflow, I never thought about it in such creative ways...

RoryOF wrote:I have never needed to, on documents of over a million words.

For me, it just hard to focus (I mean, mind concentration) with large documents. For some reason, I always have a strong desire to split them into small separate things. I thought that master-docs feature can resolve this problem...

I never worked with master documents, and today I googled about them in MS Word, and discovered that there is a strong suggestion avoid them: How can I best use the Master Document feature? General Answer: With Word 95-Word 2016, don't use it. It has serious bugs and will corrupt your entire documen...

As most people here probably know, there is an option to include linked text files, that is: 1. Place the cursor in the document where you want to insert the file. 2. Choose Insert - Section. 3. Type a name in the New Section box, and then select the Link check box. 4. In the File Name box, type the...

Even a very basic thing such as text orientation is much better in Word text tables — simply right-click on a cell and you have a context menu to quickly define text rotation (and text alignment too). In Writer, I can’t rotate a cell text by 90 degrees counter-clockwise and keep line wrapping. I at...

Zizi64 wrote:When I have formatted the background of a new paragraph by the toolbar icon, then I can remove it by Ctrl-M.

And doesn't work for me. Lol. Well, Ctrl-M is very weird thing )))

Zizi64 wrote:Click on the button None.

Yes, I understand. So, Ctrl-M doesn't remove background for you too?

Ctrl+Shift+X doesn't seem to do anything for me; I've never tried to use it. Yes, I have seen another topic aboit it with your comment aboit it. You even uploaded a comparison table of different ways to remove formatting : ) Ctrl+M [,,,] leaving only formatting that comes from the paragraph style. ...

Maybe the background color was set in an applied paragraph style or in an aplied character style. Hm, no, it was added as direct formatting. I know it precisely, because I tested it. I attached the test file to this message. Here is how it looks: before.PNG And here is how it looks after Ctrl-M pre...

There is an option "Ctrl-Shift-X" in both OO and LO. However, I can't figure out how it really works and is it really useful? I know, there is also another shortcut Ctrl-M. It works okay, as expected. But what about Ctrl-Shift-X? Exception from OpenOffice manual: Ctrl+M - Applies default f...

Hagar Delest wrote:MS Word is much more powerful for tables, it allows very complex layouts [...], whereas Writer is rather basic for tables

Can you upload some examples of such complex tables?

Zizi64, Yes, I agree with all your remarks. This instruction is very crude, and also it was written in a hurry. This function works in the Single-page view only. This is a normal behavior. For some reason, doesn't properly worked for me, but I adopted your macro (https://forum.openoffice.org/en/foru...

Hagar Delest wrote:I did some checks before posting and the dashes are not replaced if the language is set to [None].

Strange, doesn't work for me. Probably I should test more or maybe it is some difference between Open and Libre Office.

There is an old request from many users who want something like "Draft" or "Normal" layout in Microsoft Word. Some links: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37967 https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/ToDo/Layout#Draft_Layout https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug....

Quotes interact (indirectly) because the exact behavior of the quotes depends on the language being used. By the way, dashes also depends on languages. In some languages, it is common to use n-dashes, whereas in another languages the m-dashes are used. Writer, however, always inserts n-dashes if la...

Have you set the language to [None] in the font tab of the paragraph style "Code Listing"? Interesting. I changed language to [None], but it doesn't helped, because right after I typed something, the language was automatically detected as US English. Then, I enabled "Ignore system in...

Bill wrote:It doesn't look like anyone has reported it as a bug.

Very strange. I tried it with both my old and new user profiles. Same result.

I use LO stable 5.2.7.2. For some reason, "Hide whitespace" (Menu > View) option disabled each time I open document. In other words, I can enable or disable it, and it works. But, if I save, close document, and then reopen document, or if I create new document, whitespace between pages wil...

Is there a way to exclude some styles from autocorrect? Typical use case: I use Writer for documents with code blocks. I like some autocorrect features, as "smart quotes", dashes instead of hyphens, and captial letters after dots. But, for obvious reasons, I want to avoid such replacements...