Lots of trouble with page control

I am writing my life story and I have about 180 pages almost finished. I number each page as I go along, but here is my problem. Please help mewith it. Each time I go back to edit a page/s, add new text, add aphoto. the format moves everything forward either a few lines, a fewparagaphs or whatev

Re: Lots of trouble with page control

On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 08:12:42 -0500 "gene gaster" wrote: > I am writing my life story and I have about 180 pages almost finished. I > number each page as I go along, but here is my problem. Please help mewith > it. Each time I go back to edit a page/s, add new text, add aphoto. the > format mov

Open office

Hi, will this work with mac os high serria. Also due to data restrictions, what is the size of the download Regards Mark Holmes

Re: Open office

The download is 165mb. According to the OpenOffice website there is a version for OS 10 versions >= 10.7. High Sierra is 10.13 so that's the intended version. I don't use Mac and haven't checked to see if there are any specific compatibility issues with OpenOffice and High Sierra. On Tue, Feb 18

Re: Open office

You could have just looked https://www.openoffice.org/product/mac.html -- Registered Linux User: #480675 Registered Linux Machine: #408606 Linux since June 2005 On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 2:22 PM Mark Holmes wrote: > > Hi, will this work with mac os high serria. Also due to data > restrictions, w

Page Number issue

Hello - I have read and re-read and re-read again all posts on relevant Open Office forums, all tutorials, and all resources to solve my problem and hit nothing but brick walls. I am writing a collection of memoirs, preparing my manuscript to submit to Lulu Publishing. I am presently on the f

Re: Page Number issue

On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 13:41:45 -0700 Ken and Teresa Brown wrote: > Hello - > > I have read and re-read and re-read again all posts on relevant Open Office > forums, all tutorials, and all resources to solve my problem and hit nothing > but brick walls. I am writing a collection of memoirs, prep

Re: Open office

I use OpenOffice on macOS High Sierra. The webpage referenced by another response states that OpenOffice 4.1.7 is compatible with MacOS X Lion (10.7) through macOS Catalina (10.15). To answer your other question, the OpenOffice download is "~ 163 MByt

Spell check and Update

Currently using v 4.1.5 1. SPELL CHECK When I activate the spell checker, it is unable to recognise any words in my documents as correct - all are underlined in red, indicating misspellings. I have tried the English (Australian), English (US) and English (UK) dictionaries with the same results

Re: Spell check and Update

For your spelling check problem please see https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=89050 The update problem is a known issue; version 4.1.7 is the latest version of Apache OpenOffice. Just go to http://www.openoffice.org/download/ if you need to download a later version than

Loading dictionary extension

After running the suggested "python" app, I found the red wiggly lines under all the words had stopped appearing. But now there is no automatic spell checking going on. When I open Tools > Spell Checker I see no dictionaries are loaded. So I downloaded the latest version of the English dictiona

Re: Spell check and Update

Thank you, David. I have downloaded and installed 4.1.7 from the link you suggested. Re the spellcheck problem, I used the "python" script to repair it. It has stopped putting the red wiggly lines under everything, but now does not indicate words which I know are misspelled. The spellcheck win