parksy wrote:I had to create an account on this community forum just so that I can say Thank You.
This totally works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OpenOffice.org -> Preferences -> OpenOffice.org -> Fonts
1) check "apply replacement table"
2) under the "Font" drop-down select "Symbol"
3) under the "Replace With" crop-down select "OpenSymbol"
4) check the green checkmark to the left, your mapping should show up in the replacement table
5) check "always" next to the symbol mapping
6) hit "ok"
7) rest like a god
coebruce wrote:OO 3.3, Win7
I would add that you have to change all the wingding and symbol fonts to point to the open symbol font. I was getting a weird three pointed star that residing in the wingding 2 character set. I now have symbol, Wingdings,Wingdings2 and Wingdings 3 pointing to OpenSymbol. Works now.
tfernsle wrote:To get to the Font Replacement Table using Open Office on a Mac, and fix symbols;
OpenOffice.org -> Preferences -> OpenOffice.org -> Fonts
1) check "apply replacement table"
2) under the "Font" drop-down select "Symbol"
3) under the "Replace With" crop-down select "OpenSymbol"
4) check the green checkmark to the left, your mapping should show up in the replacement table
5) check "always" next to the symbol mapping
6) hit "ok"
7) rest like a god
Thank you for this, but it fails in a pretty insidious way. Affected files now appear properly in OpenOffice on Mac, but if you use OpenOffice to save a file in .doc/.docx format and then load it in MS Word on Windows, the bullet points are corrupted again. This means that files which appear correct to you look wrong when you send them to others. In a way, it's worse than before, because you don't even know it's wrong.
I've been playing with it for a while, and still haven't found any way to fix this other than loading the file in MS Word, manually correcting it, and resaving. I don't know why I keep trying to use OpenOffice.
coebruce wrote:I would add that you have to change all the wingding and symbol fonts to point to the open symbol font... I now have symbol, Wingdings,Wingdings2 and Wingdings 3 pointing to OpenSymbol. Works now.
Rob.Crestani wrote:I've had success using the Font Replacement Table, located in the Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org ->Fonts
Enable "Apply replacement table", select "Symbol" in the lefthand FONT drop down, select "OpenSymbol" in the righthand "Replace with" dropdown. Press the checkmark to the right to add the substitution to the table. Make sure you check the Always box.
Once this is set up, opening and saving in MSWord 97/XP format preserves the bullet characters in both directions.
Hope this helps.
Rob
tfernsle wrote:
To get to the Font Replacement Table using Open Office on a Mac, and fix symbols;
OpenOffice.org -> Preferences -> OpenOffice.org -> Fonts
1) check "apply replacement table"
2) under the "Font" drop-down select "Symbol"
3) under the "Replace With" crop-down select "OpenSymbol"
4) check the green checkmark to the left, your mapping should show up in the replacement table
5) check "always" next to the symbol mapping
6) hit "ok"
7) rest like a god
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