Category Archives: OOo

Below the fold are nerdy notes may be applicable to other sorts of research and document construction. Also, they will remind me what to do next time. Continue reading →

OOo 2.0 is nearly in beta, and pretty much usable. There are new builds coming out every week or so, and it has finally reached the condition of stability where you can simply copy over the whole user directory to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As usual when work presses, I bubble over with brilliant procrastination. Here’s a bit. Now that OOo has an invisible attribute for text, an MS Word style outliner is just a bunch of macros away. The only hard bit would … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This just came up on one of the support lists for the next openoffice beta: Hi Juraj, > It does not work. Where would you put the check mark? [ ] it does nothing [ ] it copies too much … Continue reading → Continue reading →

When using OOo: the language of a passsage is an attribute of the character formating. This seems silly until you have multilingual dictionaries installed. Then the words marked as Swedish are checked against a Swedish dictionary and Swedish alternatives are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the less finished, potentially useful bits of Openoffice is the Navigator. It ought to let you move and link multiple documents to your heart’s content, showing the structure of each one as it does so, with headings, bookmarks, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

On May 29 2003 I found a bug in OpenOffice, and submitted it in proper form: if you are moving through text by sentences — and the ability to do this was the first thing I liked about the program … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of the things that people miss most in Openoffice is an outline mode. In fact, there is a pretty good substitute, hidden behind a witless interface. By assigning heading level to text styles, you can then organise and manipulate … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Perhaps the single most irritating, because most brainless, bug in OOo is the one which means that changes of case are not preserved when exporting to other formats. This means that copy submitted in Word or Ascii (and what other … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sometimes I think that anyone who has ever used Linux should be banned from any contact with the public. The trouble is that they can almost communicate with normal humans. They use the same words. But they only have one … Continue reading → Continue reading →