A shortcut to open just the Writer section

2014-03-31 Thread Ivan
How can I create a desktop shortcut just for opening the Writer section of Open Office? Do I have to view all of the sub-programs before I can open Writer? Ivan

Re: A shortcut to open just the Writer section

2014-03-31 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 10:43:44 -0700 "Ivan" wrote: > How can I create a desktop shortcut just for opening the Writer section of > Open Office? Do I have to view all of the sub-programs before I can open > Writer? > > Ivan Invoke swriter.exe in your shortcut, perhaps with the addition of the cor

Re: A shortcut to open just the Writer section

2014-03-31 Thread James Knott
Ivan wrote: > How can I create a desktop shortcut just for opening the Writer section of > Open Office? Do I have to view all of the sub-programs before I can open > Writer? > > Ivan To start it from the command line, you could use oowriter. Just create an icon with that command. You could al

Re: A shortcut to open just the Writer section

2014-03-31 Thread Scooter
The Quickstarter has the direct opening to the "writer". Find it in the program of AOO folder and put it in the startup folder. It's supposed to do that automatically at install, but often doesn't. If it's not in the taskbar, you have to manually put it there. By the way the file is called "Text D

spreadsheet problem

2014-03-31 Thread Tana McColl
Hello, I use the open office spreadsheet for work. Today I went to the data tab, hit the sort tab, column A, ascending…then ok (or whatever is says to begin the process). I have certain rows highlighted, when I sorted the spreadsheet, the columns were still highlighted, but all the data was go

Re: A shortcut to open just the Writer section

2014-03-31 Thread Tubular
For default installation try: Go to desktop; right click - select New, Shortcut, then enter one of the below into the space provided . . . "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice 4\program\sdraw.exe" "C:\Program Files\OpenOffice 4\program\swriter.exe" "C:\Program Fi

Re: spreadsheet problem

2014-03-31 Thread Tubular
Hopefully, you did not save it after sorting . . . Did you try Edit, Undo? Tana McColl wrote: Hello, I use the open office spreadsheet for work. Today I went to the data tab, hit the sort tab, column A, ascending…then ok (or whatever is says to begin the process). I have certain rows high

Re: 4.1 Writer list of r latst opened file

2014-03-31 Thread johnny smith
On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 14:53:30 -, Claus Thøgersen wrote: This may not be a bug, but when I open .doc files in Writer they do not show up in the list of lats opened files in the file menu. Only the odt documents I have used show up in the list. Is this the intended behavior? no, this is

Re: spreadsheet problem

2014-03-31 Thread Tubular
If you closed without saving, the original pre-sorted file should be available . . . rather than close the spreadsheet, try to open a second copy of it (read only message will appear). Hopefully, your information will be there - just save the read only with a new file name. As for backup, go

Please need assistance

2014-03-31 Thread David Schlosser
Hello, Every time I open up OpenOffice this window pops up:   The last time you opened OpenOffice,  it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows.  Do you want to try to reopen its windows again? DON"T REOPEN                   REOPEN I tried uninstalling and installing back on to my computer and

Re: Please need assistance

2014-03-31 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:26:07 -0700 (PDT) David Schlosser wrote: > Hello, > Every time I open up OpenOffice this window pops up: >   > The last time you opened OpenOffice,  > it unexpectedly quit while reopening windows.  > Do you want to try to reopen its windows again? > > > DON"T REOPEN      

Re: A shortcut to open just the Writer section

2014-03-31 Thread Don Daugherty
Ivan wrote: How can I create a desktop shortcut just for opening the Writer section of Open Office? Do I have to view all of the sub-programs before I can open Writer? Ivan Do it ONCE the long way. In Win 7 or 8 right-click on its icon in the taskbar and choose Pin this program to the taskbar

email address formatting in Calc

2014-03-31 Thread phalbe henriksen
Hi. I have a Calc spreadsheet that contain about 400 email addresses. They are formatted as plain text, hyper-linked in blue and underlined, and hyper-linked in blue, underlined with a gray background. How can I change the special formatting and make them all plain text? Nothing I've tried works.

Re: email address formatting in Calc

2014-03-31 Thread Tubular
Under Tools select Autocorrect ; Options ; uncheck URL Recognition phalbe henriksen wrote: Hi. I have a Calc spreadsheet that contain about 400 email addresses. They are formatted as plain text, hyper-linked in blue and underlined, and hyper-linked in blue, underlined with a gray background.

Re: A shortcut to open just the Writer section

2014-03-31 Thread Tubular
On my systems (XP ; Win 7) there is one icon for Open Office. Earlier, I tried to give an easy way for XP that provides icons for OO Writer, Calc and Draw Win 7 - click on Start in lower left corner, select All Programs, right click on the individual program, select create icon. This will ap

Re: Replacement login information for Rastadog at Apache OpenOffice Templates

2014-03-31 Thread dr_murban
Dear Sirs or automated reply unit: You outdid yourselves by sending me an "Information" e-Mail that contained no information. I foolishly tried to find some of the alleged "providers" of the "code" that appears to be required as a handshake of sorts between the provider and client. Unfortunate